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  2. The Outsiders (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).

  3. Terror management theory - Wikipedia

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    In the former condition the participants were asked to describe the emotions surrounding their own death, as well as the physical act of the death itself, whereas the control group were asked similar questions about an upcoming exam. The results of the study were that the charismatic leader was favored more, and the relationship-oriented leader ...

  4. The Authoritarian Personality - Wikipedia

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    [1] The personality type Adorno et al. identified can be defined by nine traits that were believed to cluster together as the result of childhood experiences. These traits include conventionalism, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, anti-intraception, superstition and stereotypy , power and "toughness", destructiveness and ...

  5. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts - Wikipedia

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    1 year: History [26] Terrence J. McDonald 2003–2013 10 years History Susan A. Gelman (interim) 2013–2014 1 year Psychology [27] Andrew D. Martin: 2014–2018 4 years Political Science [28] Elizabeth Cole (interim) 2018–2019 1 year Social Sciences [29] Anne Curzan: 2019–2024 5 years Linguistics [30] Rosario Ceballo 2024–present ...

  6. Humanistic psychology - Wikipedia

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    Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective that arose in the mid-20th century in answer to two theories: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory and B. F. Skinner's behaviorism. [1] Thus, Abraham Maslow established the need for a "third force" in psychology. [ 2 ]

  7. Latent semantic analysis - Wikipedia

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    Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is a technique in natural language processing, in particular distributional semantics, of analyzing relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain by producing a set of concepts related to the documents and terms.

  8. The Principles of Psychology - Wikipedia

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    The Principles of Psychology was a vastly influential textbook which summarized the field of psychology through the time of its publication. Psychology was beginning to gain popularity and acclaim in the United States at this time, and the compilation of this textbook only further solidified psychology's credibility as a science.

  9. Interdependence theory - Wikipedia

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    Interdependence theory is a social exchange theory that states that interpersonal relationships are defined through interpersonal interdependence, which is "the process by which interacting people influence one another's experiences" [1] (Van Lange & Balliet, 2014, p. 65). The most basic principle of the theory is encapsulated in the equation I ...