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This book focuses on a theoretical framework (the Four-Component Model) and evaluations of the Defining Issues Test (DIT) developed by Rest and his coworkers. moral education programs produce modest gains, and, there are no sex differences. The book is important for libraries wishing a complete collection on moral development.

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Even twins are unique. Most people idealize twins, fantasizing a close, loving relationship. Yet Klein, herself an identical twin, demonstrates that twins have complicated and intense relationships that range from over-identification or excessive closeness to profound estrangement and conflict.

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Ideal for psychology, food science and nutrition students at a variety of levels, this text provides a unique lifespan perspective to guide students through nutrition and cognitive performance. With contributions from leading academics and professionals, it is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the connection between psychology and nutrition.

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Traditionally, psychology has concentrated on factors that contribute to individuals becoming unhealthy and has paid very little attention to those individuals who become healthy when all indications would predict the opposite.

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Experts investigate the role of child development in promoting a culture of peace, reporting on research in biology, neuroscience, genetics, and psychology.

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Shoham presents existentialist and object-relationship personality theory using mythology as a projection of human behavior. Through the myth of Don Juan as well as the personality of Casanova, he highlights the biological parameter of the personality and the thought of Kierkegaard and Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav.

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Since the publication of Huizinga's "Homo Ludens" in 1938, a literature has developed in philosophy and social science that suggests the idea of play should be taken seriously. This study examines the role of play in our understanding of human activity and social and political organization.

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This book focuses on the ramifications of the father-child relationship and its effects on the child-turned-adult.

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This book shows how, and in what ways, prenatal development serves as a preparation for life after birth. Here, the authors provide authoritative reviews of current knowledge regarding continuities and discontinuities between prenatal and postnatal development of brain-behavior relationships across a variety of species, including humans.

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Contents: Introduction: Psychedelics, page 1. Glossary, page 4. Legal Aspects of Drug Use, page 7. Medical Aspects of Drug Use, page 8. Social Aspects of Drug Use, page 11. The Psychedelic 'Experience', page 16. A Successful Trip, page 16. An Unsuccessful Trip, page 17. Counsel and Information, page 19. Conclusions, page 20. Bibliography: Psychedel

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Psychologists have long sought to understand and explain human change and development. In applied psychology there are three dominant approaches which have been particularly influential - humanistic, psychodynamic and behaviourist. Psychological Change introduces these models and demonstrates how the theory can be related to practice.

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Conjoined twins born before the advent of surgical separation techniques have long been of special interest to scientists. He investigataes the lives of the first recorded conjoined twins, Chang and Eng, and the lives of other, lesser known conjoined twins.

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This collection of studies represents work being done in the area of qualitative research in early childhood settings. The research spans the full range of early childhood settings from the infant-toddler and home day care programs to primary classrooms.

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Children need to play and the benefits of play are many and varied, but they are too often underestimated. This title offers a re-examination of children's play drawing together insights and experiences across fields such as education, sociology, philosophy and psychology to encourage an inter-disciplinary approach.

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A re-examination of children's play drawing together insights and experiences across fields such as education, sociology, philosophy and psychology to encourage an inter-disciplinary approach.