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Primatology is the study of nonhuman primates (NHP) or, as sometimes identified, the alloprimates, meaning primates other than us. The...

Often used as models for early primate anatomy and behavior, prosimians include a rich diversity of species exhibiting a complex...

Protolanguage is a term from historical linguistics that refers to the hypothetical, reconstructed ancestor from which a set of known...

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that is concerned with the study, prevention, and treatment of mental disorder (aka mental...

Psychology and socialization research examine the workings of the human mind and human behavior; genetics, as a branch of biology,...

Pu’uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park is a culturally and historically significant site located on the West Coast of the...

Pyramids can be found in many parts of the world in a wide variety of contexts and functions (for example,...

The Jurchens (“Nuzhen” in Chinese pinyin romanization) were a Tungusic people who inhabited parts of northeast China and North Korea....

The Quechua are the most widespread indigenous group of the Americas, with some ten million spread across Peru, Bolivia, and...

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown was a British social anthropologist who was responsible for developing the school of thought known as structural-functionalism....

Sex offenders are a heterogeneous group. While there is no standardized system for the taxonomy of sex offenders, they are...

This research paper discusses some of the more important variables such as sex of the observer, complainant, and alleged harasser;...

Research examining juror decisions in sexual harassment has generally found a relationship between juror gender and liability decisions, in that...

The Sexual Violence Risk-20 (SVR-20) is a set of structured professional judgment guidelines for conducting sexual violence risk assessments in...

The Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START) is a concise clinical guide for the dynamic assessment of short-term (i.e.,...

Showups are an identification technique in which a single individual, the suspect, is presented in a one-on-one confrontation with the...

Simultaneous and sequential presentation refers to two styles of presenting a police lineup to witnesses of a crime. Research shows...

The source monitoring (SM) framework is an evolving set of ideas developed by Marcia Johnson and her collaborators regarding the...

Given the increasing number of spousal assaulters coming before the justice system, there is a growing need for risk assessment...

Sexual offenders do great societal damage that causes justifiable public concern. Over the past 10 years, psychology has developed the...

Steven H. Chaffee (1935 –2001) was an internationally recognized mass communication scholar who had a crucial role in developing and...

The importance of credibility in human communication had already been recognized long before modern communication research emerged as a scientific...

The mass media can be the major influence on the adoption of an idea after the general public begins to...

Media desensitization is a reduction in emotional, physiological, cognitive, and/or behavioral reactivity resulting from extensive media exposure. Communication researchers have...

The Diffusion Paradigm Diffusion is a multifaceted perspective about social change in which people, innovations, and the media environment affect...

Arousal is commonly construed as the experience of restlessness, excitation, and agitation. It manifests itself in heightened overt and covert...

Emotions are commonly understood as a complex of interactive entities encompassing subjective and objective factors and consisting of affective, cognitive,...

One of the dominant functions of modern media is entertainment (Zillmann & Vorderer 2000). Moreover, entertainment offerings presented by virtually...

The capacity for media messages to induce fear has been the object of scholarly inquiry since at least the 1930s...

Leon Festinger was one of the most important figures in modern psychology and contributed several theories that are still important...

Abilities represent an individual’s capacity to perform a wide range of tasks. They are believed to be somewhat stable traits...

Academic achievement is axiomatic to career development processes. In people’s lives, academic choices, barriers, or opportunities occur early and frequently,...

People differ in many respects, some important, some trivial. Personality traits are among the individual-difference characteristics that are important and...

Biodata, or biographical data, are paper and pencil measures that ask respondents to reflect or report on their life experiences....

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a concept that has caught the attention of researchers, practitioners, and the general public over the...

No universally accepted conceptual definition of interests has emerged in vocational psychology. As a result, interests often are defined as...

Research relating educational attainment to earnings has consistently found dramatic benefits for employees with increased schooling. Over their lifetimes, high...

The term interests refers to what an individual likes and dislikes, as associated with specific tasks, activities, or objects. Interests...

The term learning styles refers to the preferences that an individual has regarding the organization of information. How people actually...

Generally, the study of leisure interests, unlike the decades of work with vocational interests, has been confounded by the way...

Pragmatism is a philosophical school of American origin, generally and internationally acknowledged as a genuine American contribution to the world...

The potlatch is a winter festival, with ceremonial feasts, where gifts and property are distributed to obtain or reassert a...

Pottery is clay that has been manipulated into a particular form and heated to harden and maintain its shape and...

The earliest period of world human history, which is often regarded also as constituent part of cultural and/or social anthropology,...

Taxonomy Primates belong to the order Primates. Members of this order include prosimians, monkeys, apes, and humans. The primates are...

Primate locomotor habits can be divided into several major categories, each characterized by different patterns of limb use and body...

Taxonomy Primates belong to the order primates. Members of this order include prosimians, monkeys, apes, and humans. The primates are...

Several causative factors contribute to the drastic reduction of primate populations in the world. The major contributors are the destruction...

The Animal Kingdom is divided into 25 to 30 major groups called phyla (singular, phylum): the Arthropoda (insects and spiders),...

The study of locomotor adaptations is fundamental to the study of primate evolution and ecology. The primates are particularly interesting...