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Kuder Career Search (KCS) represents the third generation of interest inventories known as the Kuder Preference Records. First was the...

The Career Transitions Inventory (CTI) is a 40-item Likert format measure designed to assess an individual’s internal process variables that...

The Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) is a 50-item standardized measure designed to assess the process of how adolescents and adults...

The Career Mastery Inventory (CMAS) evolved from the Career Adjustment and Development Inventory (CADI), a measure that was developed by...

Career indecision has been an important area of concern in vocational psychology for the last 50 years. An extensive body...

The Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI) is a tool designed to help people identify career beliefs that may be preventing them...

Career barriers have been hypothesized to affect the career development process by inhibiting career aspirations and restricting the range of...

The career concerns presented to counselors by adults vary widely. Some clients are making new career choices, others are coping...

Many psychologists use labels such as achievement test, aptitude test, and ability test imprecisely, and nonpsychologists use them as synonyms....

For decades after its initial development in 1931, the Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values (SOV) had a substantial impact on psychological...

The Mesolithic epoch, or the “middle stone age,” nowadays is interpreted as a Holocene stage of hunter-gatherer society development. Two...

Mesopotamia is the ancient land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It covers modern day Iraq and parts of Iran,...

Metallurgy deals with the study of metals and their ores as well as the processes for extracting, purifying, and alloying...

Mexico ranks among the world’s most important locations of anthropologists and anthropological research. It was a center of crop domestication...

Miami (also called Maumee) is the name of an important Native American nation. Today, the Miami people live primarily in...

Middens are prehistoric rubbish or garbage heaps. The word midden in archaeology is a term that is truly a product...

Attendance at birth has been suggested to be essential in facilitating mother-child survival as the physiology of birth changed during...

Migrations are a constant in human history. Indeed, it is a mistake to treat residential stability as normal and thus...

Sidney Wilfred Mintz is a major figure in anthropology’s synthesis of the study of local people and places with world...

The phrase missing link is a colloquial term describing a transitional form between taxa in an evolutionary scheme. Because the...

To date, very few instruments have been developed for the purpose of assisting evaluators in the assessment of competency for...

The Chicago Jury Project was a large-scale social science research initiative in the 1950s. This research paper provides a descriptive...

Psychologists are often asked to evaluate and to provide testimony about parental capacity. The Child Abuse Potential (CAP) Inventory, a...

Child custody evaluation (also known as evaluation of parental responsibility) refers to the use of the legal system to resolve...

Child maltreatment extends across class, culture, ethnicity, and nationality. In the United States alone, upward of 3 million cases of...

Children may experience or witness crime and may need to provide reports to authorities. Children’s eyewitness accounts can contain critical...

When children are involved in trials as witnesses, victims, or defendants, jurors must decide whether they are credible and how...

Although definitions can vary across legal, clinical, and research contexts, child sexual abuse is commonly defined as sexual acts between...

Civil commitment is the legal process under which individuals with mental illness may be subjected to involuntary hospitalization. This research...

The Classification of Violence Risk (COVR) is an interactive software program designed to estimate the risk that an acute psychiatric...

The association of being at home with feelings of increased physical comfort, safety, and psychological  well-being  are  reflected  in  a ...

In sport and exercise, norms have been investigated  in  individual,  relationship,  and  team-based contexts. With respect to individual pursuits, perhaps ...

Roles  are  important  structural  components  of  all groups and represent the expectations for behaviors of individuals within a particular social...

As a conceptual extension of social identity theory, John  Turner  and  his  colleagues  developed  self-categorization  theory.  Self-categorization  theory seeks  to ...

The shared mental model is a term used in industrial and occupational psychology. Within the discipline  of  sport  psychology  (SP), ...

Identity exists along a spectrum that ranges from the personal to the social. The personal end of this spectrum is...

Social processing effects are grounded within individuals’  assessments  and  interpretations  of  social contextual  information.  Because  sport  and  exercise psychology (SEP)...

Status  represents  an  individual’s  social  standing in  relation  to  others.  Attributes  of  status  can  be based  upon  physical  characteristics  (e.g., ...

Stereotype threat is the perceived risk of confirming,  as  self-characteristic,  a  negative  stereotype about one’s group. Over 300 studies on...

Communication  is  commonly  defined  as  a  transmission of thoughts, feelings, information, knowledge,  and  ideas  by  means  of  written  or  verbal...

A blogger is a publisher of or contributor to a weblog. Weblogs are online publications that typically present contents in...

Broadcast journalism extends news to radio and television. The first broadcast journalists came from other media including newspapers, news and...

Celebrity journalists are news workers who become prominent or famous in their own right and thus objects of media attention....

Citizen journalism refers to journalism produced not by professionals but by those outside mainstream media organizations. Citizen journalists typically have...

Mainly used to refer to news, cross-media production is the coordinated reporting of events in several media outlets (press, radio,...

The concept of journalists accompanying troops into combat is not new, but the scale and manner of media operations on...

Journalism ethics is a branch of applied philosophy of moral values and rules. Beginning with moral issues in medicine, the...

Ethnic journalism is the practice of journalism by, for, and about ethnic groups. Because ethnicity is a historical and relational...

The “classic” foreign correspondent had become an identifiable occupation by the second half of the nineteenth century, supporting an increasing...

Sociologist Kurt Lewin first used the term gatekeeping to describe how food purchasing habits of a population affected social change....