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The capacity to consent to treatment, also known as treatment consent capacity (TCC) and medical decisionmaking capacity, is a civil...

The Capacity to Consent to Treatment Instrument (CCTI) is a standardized psychometric instrument designed to assess the treatment consent capacity...

Prior to interrogating a suspect, police officers must inform individuals of their legal rights. Mental health professionals are frequently called...

With the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process as its grounding, the U.S....

Capital mitigation consists of evidence that is presented in a death penalty trial to obtain a sentence other than death....

Although the insanity defense is numerically insignificant, it remains profoundly important to the criminal justice system as the focal point...

Since the 1970s, some clinical psychologists (often referred to as operational psychologists) have become more actively involved in the resolution...

This research paper examines the causes of critical incident stress in law enforcement officers. It discusses how, by identifying critical...

The cross-race effect (CRE, also referred to as the own-race bias or other-race effect) is a facial recognition phenomenon in...

The CSI effect refers to the belief that jurors’ expectations about forensic evidence at trial are changing due to the...

Neural  plasticity  is  the  mechanism  by  which  the brain  encodes  experience  and  learns  new  skills, behaviors, and habits in daily...

Modern  sport  culture  is  replete  with  qualities thought to make burnout prevalent, including high training  volumes  and  competitive  demands,  near...

Cardiac  function  refers  to  the  contraction  of cardiac  muscle,  which  works  as  a  pump  to  send blood  throughout  the  circulatory ...

There  are  several  prevailing  models  that  connect psychological  factors  and  sport  injury,  each  with slightly  different  perspective  on  relevant  biological, ...

Development  refers  to  physical,  cognitive,  emotional,  and  psychological  changes  across  the  life span.  Considering  development  within  sport  and exercise  contexts ...

The  World  Health  Organization  defines  obesity and  overweight  as  the  excessive  accumulation of  body  fat  and  warns  that  both  conditions ...

Drugs are used for performance enhancement purposes  in  elite,  competitive,  and  amateur  sports. Unlike  heroin,  barbiturates,  hallucinogens,  and substances used...

The  eating  disorders  of  anorexia  nervosa  and bulimia  nervosa  are  characterized  by  severe  disturbances  in  body  image,  eating,  and  engaging...

Sport and recreational-related injuries have become a  significant  public  health  concern  for  physically active persons. For example, in 2006 the...

The  term  narcotics  is  commonly  used  to  refer loosely to a broad range of drugs, from marijuana to  cocaine.  More ...

Questions of media ethics address the way media practitioners – journalists, public relations (PR) representatives, bloggers, technical support staff –...

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

We live in an increasingly diverse world, not only in terms of ethnic heritage, but also in the forms of...

It is commonly assumed that an ethnographic film is any documentary about nonwestern cultures. There is scholarly debate about its...

What are the means of communication used by people when they conduct their everyday lives; and what meanings does this...

The vitality of language communities can affect the quality of intergroup communication between speakers of contrasting language groups. This is...

Communication in its simplest form refers to the ongoing process of sharing and understanding meaning. Many intercultural communication problems stem...

It is widely accepted that communication, whether presented as a manner of acting, a style of conversing, or a fashioning...

Traditional Islamic modes of communication have evolved to become very effective at enhancing conformity and obedience, and in strengthening ingroup...

An understanding of values and worldviews can greatly inform our understanding of the modes of both face-to-face and mediated communication...

The Equal Pay Act, which passed into law in the United States in 1963, requires that employers provide female and...

Erik Erikson set forth a theory of ego identity development to account for the interactions between psychological, social, historical, and...

Executive coaching involves one-on-one discussions between an executive and a behavioral science professional on topics involving skills and style in...

An exit interview is a discussion between a departing employee and a representative of the organization that occurs in the...

The distinction between exempt and nonexempt employees, a familiar dichotomy indicating exemption from certain federal labor regulations, was created through...

Family background and careers are robust constructs, each of which subsumes a complex network of conditions and behaviors. They are...

Gender influences a wide range of career-related attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes. This includes career choice, career experiences, occupational health, work...

The American Heritage Dictionary defines aspiration as a strong desire for high achievement, or an object of this desire. According...

In recent decades, women and people of color have made considerable progress in moving into management jobs, but they tend...

The term career development represents a large body of theory and research that seeks to explain the structure and the...

While the word humanism is recent, the idea of humanism is one of the oldest and most transnational worldviews in...

Anthropology, the study of human beings in their bedazzling variety, eternally provokes questions about what human beings share, about their...

Dinosaurs were a diverse and successful group of animals whose remains have fascinated us and inspired myths that persist into...

Alexander von Humboldt felicitously combined acute observation and scientific method with indefatigable energy levels and enormous curiosity. The Age of...

Contrary to the traditional conception of human beings as essentially purely rational, David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, argued...

Samuel P. Huntington is one of the most talked-about and controversial political scientists in the world today. Huntington asks the...

Evolutionary humanism is a philosophical point of view centered on human interests and values in the context of natural selection...

Hylobates is the sole genus of primates in the family Hylobatidae. The family, whose members are known as lesser apes,...

On September 9, 1991, a German couple from Nuremberg, Helmut and Erika Simon, were hiking the trails along the Niederjochferner...

The term ideology is etymologically divergent. A derivation from the rarely transmitted Greek ideologia (opinion, discourse) must be denied due...