This study explored Kocsis and Heller’s findings concerning the relationship between one’s belief and the perceived accuracy of a profile. The influence of types of information was also considered. A sample of 143 participants was used in the present experiment that gauged the perception of...

This paper extends an epistemologically grounded biological theory of organization and knowledge based on Karl Popper's evolutionary epistemology and three worlds ontology, amalgamating concepts from evolutionary biology, emergence and hierarchy theory, autopoiesis, and military affairs. We...

The survey “Elements of satisfaction and motivation in work at practiser psychologists and social assistants” represents the subject of the dissertation conducted by lecturer professor dr. Mihai Petru Craiovan. It took part in The General Direction of Social Assistance and Child’s...

The fear of extinction that we identify in the cultural and social products of contemporary world represents the projection of primary affect, which manifests in the case of every human being who lives in this world as a consequence of the triggering of primary anxiety that regards the...

The anxiety response can be very useful in the short term to deal with threatening, dangerous or stressful situations. Defined as a normal feeling that people experience when they are faceing such situations, anxiety can be counterproductive to the individual if this reaction does not subside...

The transactional analysis is, firstly, a philosophy, a point of view about human beings. Secondly, it is a theory of personality, of psychical function and interpersonal behaviour, so it is a theory of communication as well. Thirdly, it is a creative and powerful instrument used to facilitate...

Those of us working to improve student learning, and seeking to exploit e-learning to do so, have to ride each new wave of technological innovation in an attempt to divert it from its more natural course of techno-hype, and drive it towards the quality agenda. We have to build the means for...

Research has shown that therapy that includes homework improves outcome. This is likely because homework takes advantage of time available between therapy session, allows the client to practice concepts learned in therapy, and helps the client be an active participant in the change process....

Concerning the straight of administrative capacity in European Union programs, the public function professionalism becomes a condition for strengthening administrative capacity and the public servant becomes an actor in the process of European integration. Increasing quality of the public...

The novel “When Lizoanca was eleven” describes an eleven year old girl’s childhood, Eliza Niţǎ, known as Lizoanca. The story focuses on the girl’s life as a prostitute and as one reads on contexts that led to Lizoanca being a prostitute are revealed. Thus Lizoanca abandons her parents...