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The term midlife crisis, or midlife transition, is generally defined as a period in an adult’s life, believed to occur...

Morale has been a recognized business concept and management concern for as far back as the construction of the pyramids....

Career motivation is the desire to exert effort to enhance career goals. It is a multidimensional construct that combines elements...

This article considers the relationship between the internal motivation of people and their career development. The discussion centers on what has...

A multicultural organization is defined as one that seeks and values all differences and develops systems and work practices that...

The growth of the multinational organization, which has been part of the globalization process in recent years, has had the...

The National Career Development Association (NCDA) is the home for approximately 3,800 practitioners, scholars, and students devoted to promoting the...

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is the basic federal law that governs unionization and collective bargaining in the United...

Nepotism is generally defined as preference given to a relative by a person in a position of power in an...

The term career has been defined by several prominent behavioral scientists as a pattern of work-related experiences, including attitudes and...

Abram Kardiner was a psychiatrist and pioneering psychoanalyst who made major contributions to psychological and psychoanalytic anthropology as well as...

During his era, Sir Arthur Keith was one of the world’s most prominent anatomists and defenders of Darwinism. As Keith...

On July 28, 1996, the random discovery of a skull on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington...

One of a rash of new extinct hominid genera discovered and described during the turn of the 21st century, Kenyanthropus...

Long recognized as an important genus for understanding the ancestry of great apes and humans, Kenyapithecus has been the subject...

Henry Bernard Davis Kettlewell, MD, an outstanding physician, lepidopterist and geneticist, is best known for his work on industrial melanism...

Kibbutz (plural: kibbutzim) is the Hebrew word for communal settlement, and it refers to a particular type of rural community...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15,1929 in an area that, today, is a...

Kinship and descent are each notions that have been of particular preoccupation to social anthropologists, as much due to their...

The terminology of kinship, that is, the terms we use to name our kin, is one of the most important...

The paradigmatic finding from research on deception detection is that people are poor at discriminating between liars and truth tellers....

Wizards of deception detection are rare individuals who achieve scores of 80% or higher on at least two of three...

Deception is defined, for the purposes of this research paper, as a successful or unsuccessful deliberate attempt to create in...

The credibility and reliability of children’s testimony are particularly important in instances where children are called on as primary witnesses...

High-stakes lies occur where there are large positive consequences of getting away with the lie or large negative consequences of...

Diminished capacity refers to two distinct doctrines. The first, known as the mens rea variant, refers to the use of...

Diplomates in forensic psychology are dually certified by the American Board of Forensic Psychology (ABFP) and its parent organization, the...

Disability insurance and workers’ compensation both concern illness or injury in the context of work. These terms are sometimes (erroneously)...

Disparate treatment and disparate impact cases involve actions on the part of an employer that a plaintiff worker claims are...

Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple-personality disorder, is one of the more controversial diagnoses in the Diagnostic and...

Performance enhancement is of major importance in competitive and elite sports. Among the many methods  to  enhance  performance  in  sports, ...

Injury is a common occurrence in association with sport participation. Most sport injuries are minor, require  minimal  medical  intervention,  and ...

Psychological well-being (PWB) is defined as one’s level  of  psychological  happiness/health,  encompassing life satisfaction, and feelings of accomplishment. At the...

Recreational  drugs  refer  to  substances  that  are not  used  by  athletes  for  the  purpose  of  enhancing  athletic  performance.  The  health-related ...

Most  athletes  will  encounter  one  or  more  major setbacks or adversities during their sporting career. An  elite  athlete  may,  for ...

In sports, optimal performance is only achievable if athletes recover after competition. Recovery and intense exercise must also be balanced...

Although  ubiquitous  in  life,  stress  is  rather  difficult to define. Stress reactivity is a dynamic process involving  context-dependent,  interactive  factors...

Psychopharmacology  refers  to  the  study  of  the actions  of  drugs  on  behavior.  Drugs  and  substances with the potential to modify...

Sex  differences  are  often  referred  to  interchangeably  as  gender  differences,  often  to  offset  taboos associated with the word sex. Use...

Exercise  scientist  William  P.  Morgan  often  contrasted  how  exercise  physiologists  and  exercise psychologists  study  the  exercising  human.  The physiologists  were ...

We constantly interact with people from different social groups to our own: cultures, ethnic groups, genders, ages, occupations, organizations, even...

Historically, family scholarship has been guided by a Eurocentric perspective including the notion that families are ethnically homogeneous. Over the...

Normative conduct is a major component of systems of culture. Each culture has its specific norms for everyday social interaction....

Competent intercultural conflict management depends on many factors. One of the key factors is to increase our awareness and knowledge...

Major social changes of the twentieth century include international air travel, global business expansion, increased migration across national boundaries, and...

In the twenty-first century mankind lives in a more multicultural environment than ever before. For many health practitioners this means...

The cultural imperialism thesis states, broadly, that a powerful country uses cultural means to achieve or support the political and...

In the communication field, the term “cultural product” refers to media artifacts such as books, newspapers, magazines, recorded music, films,...

Deutsche Welle (DW) is a German news and information broadcasting channel that explicitly targets a worldwide audience. DW cannot be...

Though the Walt Disney Company began as an independent production company producing cartoons distributed by other companies, the company has...