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Psychology is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in psychology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for doctors and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in psychology related problems. All manuscripts must be prepare…
Grant J. Rich
This article examines talent development in piano prodigies through a case study of the life of Australian pianist David Helfgott as depicted in the film Shine . Utilizing theory from positive psychology, especially Csikszentmihalyi’s flow theory of motivatio…
Matthew T. Gailliot, Seth A. Gitter, Michael D. Baker, Roy F. Baumeister
Two pilot and six studies indicated that poor self-control causes people to violate social norms and rules that are effortful to follow. Lower trait self-control was associated with a greater willingness to take ethical risks and use curse words. Participants…
Reinhard Pietrowsky, Johannes Mikutta
Effects of Positive Psychology (PP) have been shown in several studies to alleviate depressive symptoms in patients suffering from major depression or dysthymia when administered within psychotherapy. The present study served to test for the effects of two in…
Despina Stamatopoulou
We know little about the role of background positive affectivity and flow experiences in early development concerning means-ends activities and their possible contribution regarding symbolic functioning and the consolidation of the self as agent. The theoreti…
Pierre Baillargeon, Robert Coté, Lyne Douville
Adolescents living in youth centers often comply with therapeutic treatment against their will. We think that this forced environment ruptures the therapeutic alliance between adolescents and their therapists and, as such, influences the therapeutic results.…
Farzaneh Pahlavan, Ali Amirrezvani, Daryl B. O’Connor
The Aggressive Provocation Questionnaire (APQ) (O’Connor, Archer, & Wu, 2001) was developed based on Frijda’s modular theory of emotions (1988), in order to provide researchers with an effective measure of aggressive tendencies in men. The aim of the current…
Eva Mazzotti, Francesco Serranò, Claudia Sebastiani, Paolo Marchetti
Cancer can threat the stability of a mother’s parental role, undermining her ability to take care of her children and keep the family together. We conducted face-to-face interviews to explore the experiences of mothers with breast cancer. Some mothers tend to…
Marie-Claude Bonniot-Cabanac, Michel Cabanac, José F. Fontanari, Leonid I. Perlovsky
Many psychologists think that there are few basic emotions, and most emotions are combinations of these few. Here we advance a hypothesis that the number of principally different emotions is near infinite. We consider emotions as mental states with hedonic co…
Igor Kotlyar, Leonard Karakowsky
The aim of our laboratory study was to examine how the demographic composition (in terms of gender and culture) of work teams can influence levels of helping behavior demonstrated among group members. Participants included 216 university students from undergr…
René Pry, Arne F. Petersen, Amaria Baghdadli
Clinical work and prediction of development are closely linked in the practice of early detection, diagnosis and choice of modes of intervention in young children with autism. Variables are often defined in terms of risk factors or of development, and may ref…
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Psychology is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in psychology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for doctors and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in psychology related problems. All manuscripts must be prepare… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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