The Assessment of a Research Article
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This 11 page paper provides an overview of assessments of two research articles, and considers factors like the validity of claims made by the researchers. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: MHArtRe5.rtf

The Child As A Moral Philosopher By Kohlberg
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A 4 page paper that summarizes this 1968 article by Lawrence Kohlberg. In this article, Kohlberg explains his stages of moral development, commenting on each and including specific examples. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: PGklb68.RTF

The Impact of Gender Roles and Family Environment on Eating Disorder Risk
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of an article on the impact of gender and family environment on the risk for developing eating disorders. This paper integrates a view of the central factors presented in this research article, including the hypothesis, the procedures or methods, and the statistical comparisons utilized to support the outcomes of the study. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MHEatRev.rtf

The Mental Prison of Despair: Correlations from “The Stanford Prison Experiment”
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A 5 page overview of this classical psychological study conducted in the 1970s. Comments on the group behavior of conformation. Introduces Doris Lessing’s “Group Minds”, Soloman Asch’s “Opinions and Social Pressure”, and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” to further illustrate the dynamics of group interaction. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPprison.wps

The Psychological Cost of Disasters
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This 18 page paper considers the impact that disasters can have on those who are directly and indirectly involved, including those remote to the disaster seeing it through the media. This paper examines four recent research articles that examine the way in which stress and anxiety including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) emerge in different section of the population. The first article looks at those who were directly effected by the September the 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, the second article considers the impact of those remote to the disaster. The third article looks at the psychological adaptation of mothers where their children have been involved in a disaster, and the last considers survivors of an earth quake. These all indicate that new ways of dealing with disasters need to be develop, which are not limited to the PTSD approach. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
Filename: TEdisasterptsd.rtf

The Real Issues of Pornography and World Wide Web Violence
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A 5 page reaction to the research detailed in “Reactions to pornography on a college campus: for or against?” by authors Ilsa Lottes, Martin Weinberg, and Inge Weller. This paper reviews the findings of this study in which the views of students at a Midwestern university as to an adult’s right to access sexually explicit materials and their opinions as to the harmful and positive aspects of such materials. The contention is made that while studies such as this voice the acceptance of certain segments of the public of such topics as pornography, the real societal impacts of ready access to these topics outweigh the social acceptability. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: PPpsyPrn.rtf

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