Personality Disorders

has a multitude of potential definintions depending on the application. For example, in social interactions, facework refers to strategic social movements where the individual...

the term applied to the initial impression we have of another person when we meet them for the first time. It contains positive and...

Name used to describe the capacity that a person has for making their own decisions and directions in life. We need it for moral...

the degree to which an arrangement of residential faculties will influence the probability of any unplanned social interactions by the residents. Physical distance, position...

The branch of biology concerning the mechanisms and phenomena of heredity and the laws that determine inherited traits. See behavior genetics; biogenesis; political genetics;...

the term that is applied to the test administered to several individuals simultaneously. Compare individual test.

The aptitude enabling a person to be able to carry on effective relationships with others such as an ability to cooperate, communicate thought and...

Attempting to access one's own internal psychological processes directly, perceptions, judgements or states. Introspective ailj

A positive attitude toward a friend may assist in attributing that person's negative behaviour to situational factors rather that personal characteristics, and the role...

was first proposed by U.S. psychologists Sylvan S. Tomkins (1911 - 1991) and Carroll F. Izard (1923 - ) as a hypothesis where afferent...