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• Self Esteem
  ...tatus and acceptance in ones' social group. According to terror management theory, self-esteem serves a protective function and reduces anxiety about life an <blockquote>“These findings suggest that the low-esteem theory is wrong. But none involves what social psychologists regard as the most co
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• Senses
  ...ory of the visual brain. Structures in the cerebral cortex relevant to the theory include primary visual cortex, posterior[[ parietal cortex]], and infero-te ...t for higher order [[cognitive]] tasks, and it is consistent with Piaget's theory of the construction of [[knowledge]].
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• Transcendence, Immanency, and Surrogacy
  ...othetical moment in past eternity, we can develop an interesting Plotinian theory of genesis as an imaginative extrapolation of what Schuon is saying, and st
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• Communication
  ...ns. Some of those systematical questions are elaborated in [[Communication theory]]. ...]] or improved living conditions for the sender or [[Receiver (information theory)|receiver]] of the message or both.
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• Radical
  ...cal place, where she was at the beginning of the sickness. 1749 J. HODGSON Theory Jupiter's Satellites 90 The Radical Places of Jupiter and his Aphelion bein ...(Royal Soc.) B. 192 231 The attempt by Hamburger..to revive the filtration theory of absorption..compelled me to measure the hydrostatic pressure simultaneou
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• Transformation
  ...Cyclic view is temporal, then emanation is a non-temporal precursor to the theory of spiritual evolution. ...each independently incorporated the findings of [[science]] into a larger theory of spiritual evolution, and extended the [[tradition]]al human, animal, veg
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• The Universal Schoolhouse
  keeping with Moffett’s own theory, political agendas and the [[culture]] of
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• Leadership
  ===Trait theory=== ...cs of men who rose to [[power]].[5] Ronald Heifetz (1994) traces the trait theory approach back to the nineteenth-century [[tradition]] of associating the [[
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• Brainwashing
  ...]] and of [[scientific]] [[communities]] that there exists no scientific [[theory]], generally accepted and based upon methodologically sound [[research]], t ...for Psychology (BSERP) rejected the DIMPAC report because the brainwashing theory espoused "lacks the [[scientific]] rigor and evenhanded [[critical]] approa
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• 2013-09-19-Meditation and Will Power
  ...e written these plays. It had to be someone of the noble caste. And it’s a theory that has gone on for hundreds of years. They say that someone, brought up a
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• Determinism
  ...s and actions can be determined from external causes; but free will is the theory that human choices and actions are determined by internal causes: that an i ...ee Are You?'' - The Determinism Problem gives the following summary of the theory of determinism:
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• Ancient Arrow Book, chapter 2
  ...since Tuesday, nine hundred hours. If you search on the words, hypothesis, theory, supposal, or conjecture, you'll find only one context." Stevens: My theory is that this thing was so secretive they wanted it to look alien. Again, I
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• Ken Wilber
  ...s fail across the board.". His work formulates what he calls an "integral theory of consciousness." He is a leading proponent of the integral movement and ...'Integral Psychology'' and wrote ''A Theory of Everything'' (2000). In ''A Theory of Everything'' Wilber attempts to bridge business, politics, science and s
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• Scientific Method
  ...ps must be repeatable in order to predict dependably any future results. [[Theory#Science|Theories]] that encompass wider domains of inquiry may bind many hy ...nquiry, observation includes both unconditioned observations (prior to any theory) as well as the observation of the experiment and its results.
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• Modern Cosmology as Metaphor and the Double Nature of Soul
  ...more important, I'll show how modern cosmology, the standard [[big-bang]] theory, can function as a true [[metaphor]]-one that can go far beyond provoking o ...rn cosmology solidly rests on the interplay between [[Einstein]]'s elegant theory of [[general relativity]] and observations from a variety of dazzling moder
  48 KB (7,393 words) - 01:41, 13 December 2020
• 1992-09-08-Population Explosion
  ...is alive and [[active]]. It isn't something that can be worked-out in a [[theory]] or an [[equation]].
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• Miracles
  ...ive religious believers hold that in the absence of a plausible scientific theory, the best explanation for these events is that they were performed by a [[s
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• Organism
  [[James Lovelock]], with his "[[Gaia Theory]]" has paralleled the work of [[Vladimir Vernadsky]], who suggested the who
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• Dance
  ...s dance studies (dance [[practice (learning method)|practice]], [[critical theory]], [[Musical analysis]] and [[history]]) began to be considered an [[academ ...[[Cultural Studies]], [[Gender Studies]], [[Area studies]], [[Postcolonial theory]], [[Ethnography]], etc.
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• Anthropology
  ...rized about the origins of religious feelings in human beings, proposing a theory of animism as the earliest stage, and noting that "religion" has many compo ...n new directions through their introduction of explicitly Marxist-informed theory, their emphasis on conflicts and conflict resolution, and their attention t
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