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Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember is a 2005 book by United States Senator John McCain with Mark Salter. Published by Random House , it is a collection of biographies about individuals from the past and present who, in the authors' view, exemplify the best qualities of character.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil is a 2007 book which includes professor Philip Zimbardo's first detailed, written account of the events surrounding the 1971 Stanford prison experiment (SPE) – a prison simulation study which had to be discontinued after only six days due to several distressing outcomes and mental breaks of the participants.
Graffiti with a Nazi swastika and 14/88 on a wall in Elektrostal, Moscow, Russia Graffiti with 1488 and an obscure message on a wall in Volzhsky, Volgograd Oblast, Russia "The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by the American domestic terrorist David Eden Lane, [1] [2] one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist ...
The term was coined by Pamela Paresky [8] and promulgated by The Coddling of the American Mind, [9] which described its status as "a sacred value", meaning that it was not possible to make practical tradeoffs or compromises with other desirable things (e.g., for people to be made to feel uncomfortable in support of free speech or learning new ...
Proactivity is about taking responsibility for one's reaction to one's own experiences, taking the initiative to respond positively and improve the situation. Covey postulates, in a discussion of the work of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, that between stimulus and response lies a person's ability to choose how to react, and that nothing can hurt a person without the person's consent.
The book continually refers to two fictional characters 'Harold' and 'Erica', used by Brooks as examples of how people's emotional personality changes over time. [1] [2] The book debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. [3] It reached the No. 3 spot on the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list for non-fiction (as of April 3, 2011). [4]
A simple graphic depicting survey data from the United States intended to support moral foundations theory [citation needed]. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion is a 2012 social psychology book by Jonathan Haidt, in which the author describes human morality as it relates to politics and religion.
In the first definitive book on defence mechanisms, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), [7] Anna Freud enumerated the ten defence mechanisms that appear in the works of her father, Sigmund Freud: repression, regression, reaction formation, isolation, undoing, projection, introjection, turning against one's own person, reversal into the opposite, and sublimation or displacement.