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An important and enduring question for communication science concerns why people interact in the ways they do. This issue has...

Our mental architecture is shaped in a way that helps us to deal with our complex environment. Since much of...

The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is one of a class of related theories of behavior change. The theory was...

Of the numerous functions the news media perform in contemporary society, perhaps none is so basic as their role in...

Mindlessness is the automatic (nonconscious) management of behavior. Mindless behavior is studied under many varied and related names: mindlessness, automaticity,...

The object of research on message production is to answer the question, “Why do people say what they do?” The...

Message editing is the process whereby speakers review and sometimes revise a message plan prior to speaking. At lower levels...

The major premise of message design logics is that individuals have different ways of reasoning (“design logics”) about communication. These...

Researchers who study person memory examine how perceivers store and recall information about a social target in order to understand...

Memory is critical to communication. The near-instantaneous understanding of a familiar word in a conversation, recognizing an advertising image, mentally...

Contingent employment has become pervasive in contemporary society. It is a multifaceted phenomenon with significant implications for career development, occupational...

Continuing professional education (CPE), or continuing education, is the education of professionals in a variety of fields and practice that...

Cooperative education is a structured educational model in which students alternate between periods of classroom study on campus and periods...

With the growth and evolution of entrepreneurship research in recent decades, new terminology has emerged to describe various types and...

People have self-thoughts about many personal attributes that together form a multifaceted self-view (i.e., self-concept). For example, a woman might...

Derailment refers to the involuntary loss of promotional opportunity due to declining managerial effectiveness over time. In general, managers derail...

Over the last decade, the enrollment of students with disabilities in postsecondary education has increased dramatically. In 1978, just 3...

Providing the necessary information to ensure sound, evidence-based public policy for those with disabilities has been more difficult than for...

Workplace diversity continues to be both an interest and a concern to organizations worldwide. Efforts to provide greater access to...

The term downsizing represents the broad variety of ways in which organizational leaders reduce employee ranks to achieve business objectives....

Homo ergaster (literally “work man”) is an extinct hominin that lived in Africa about 1.9 to 1.6 million years ago....

Homo habilis is an extinct hominin that lived in Africa between 2.3 and 1.6 million years ago. The type specimen,...

Age of Homo sapiens The Homo sapiens lineage may be as old as 500,000 years. Although the oldest fossil remains...

Homosexuality generally refers to sexual and/or emotional attraction to members of the same sex. Homosexuality is considered to be a...

Hopi, which means the “Peaceful People,” have lived in the Black Mesa region of the Colorado Plateau since their emergence...

For most of the 20th century, anthropologists were keen typologists, preferring to categorize and classify the diversity of social and...

Francis Clark Howell, better known as Clark Howell, is one of the most influential and respected physical anthropologists in North...

Howling monkeys are a group of New World Monkeys (NWM) belonging to the subfamily Alouattinae and genus Alouatta. There are...

American physical anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka is most widely known for theories concerning Homo Neandertalensis and New World migrations. Born in...

Huari represents one of the few civilizations that were actually lost from historic records only to be rediscovered by archaeologists...

Estimates indicate that one million elderly people are victims of domestic violence every year. Forty percent of cases occur when...

Across many topics, eyewitness testimony remains a vivacious research area. The American Psychology-Law Society lists more than 1,400 references on...

Questions of potential interactions between psychology and the law existed long before the founding of the United States or the...

In line with general psychological approaches across fields, psychologists who study psychology and the law emphasize the behavior, cognitions, emotions,...

Interrogation rooms remain some of the most secretive locations in the United States legal system. Police undertake interrogation to discover...

The jury has been one of the most mysterious forces in United States law. Critics have leveled extensive allegations that...

Questions regarding pretrial publicity center on the tension between two guaranteed rights in the United States. The First Amendment to...

Repression is a psychological construct with roots in Freudian ego defenses, and repression has existed in the Diagnostic and Statistical...

There are several general roles for psychologists in the legal system, and many specific careers exist in psychology in the...

The science of psychology exists in a state of tension with the legal system in many ways (Ogloff & Finkelman,...

Mentoring is a process in which a mentor, who is typically more experienced or older, helps a mentee  or  protégé ...

Relaxation  has  been  defined  as  a  psychological strategy used by sports performers to help manage or reduce stress-related emotions (e.g.,...

Simulation  training  is  a  popular  technique  used in  many  domains,  including  aviation,  the  military,  medicine,  music  and  theatre,  and  sport. ...

Stress  management  refers  to  the  environmental, physiological, cognitive, and behavioral techniques employed by an individual to manage the factors and ...

The  term  support  group  refers  to  all  those  supportive  and  potentially  supportive  people  in  an athlete’s  or  exerciser’s  environment  (e.g., ...

Thought stopping has its origins in the late 1950s and is a class of cognitive techniques (involving mental  or  behavioral ...

Psychophysiology is the scientific study of the connection  between  the  mind  (psychology)  and  the body  (physiology).  Psychophysiology  is  based  on...

In  recent  years,  there  has  been  an  increase  in research  and  practical  applications  concerning the use of biofeedback training for...

Hazardous alcohol use is a significant health problem that affects many people. In the United States, almost 10% of the...

The  central  nervous  system  (CNS)  is  composed of  the  brain  and  spinal  cord.  The  CNS  receives sensory  information  from  the ...