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How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who…
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The Girl with the Dragon Tatto
Introduction Give us a sound bite, Kalle Blomkvist. It was a reporter from one of the evening papers. Blomkvist, hearing…
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Have We Demystified Critical Thinking?
Psychology faculty agree that critical thinking instruction is important (Appleby, 2006; Halpern, 2002), but they cannot agree on a precise…
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Barriers to Critical Thought in Psychological Practice
First, consider some developments within psychology itself that are working against us. One is the growth of nonscientific approaches to…
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Beyond Good and Evil
Introdution O sancta simplicitiatas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one…
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Introducing Best Practices in Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology
Critical thinking is consequential thinking. As teachers, we want our students to both appreciate and exemplify the sort of critical…
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Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Poverty and social disadvantage Poverty and social disadvantage are consistently associated with variations in children’s health, cognitive skills and academic…
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Contextual Influences upon Social and Emotional Development
Family and Systemic Influences Numerous contexts interweave to support children’s emotional and behavioural development. In early childhood, family networks are…
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Current Status and Options for Crop Biotechnologies in Developing Countries
Introduction In developing countries, there is a need for continued focus on optimizing agricultural output in conjunction with conserving the…
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How to Win Every Argument
Introduction Sound reasoning is the basis of winning at argument. Logical fallacies undermine arguments. They are a source of enduring…
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