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Maths for Psychology - Maths - LibGuides at La Trobe University - 0 views

  • he topics covered are: Basic Statistical Concepts, arithmetic and algebra for understanding statistics, interpreting graphs and statistical measures used in Psychology.
  • It will allow you to conduct your own research including designing quantitative research studies, analysing and interpreting data, and reporting your results in order to advance theory and practice in Psychology.
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Political philosophy | Britannica.com - 0 views

  • decisions are arrived at as with what the aims of the whole political process should be in the light of a particular philosophy of life.
  • They are all fundamental to political philosophy and demand answers in terms of modern knowledge and opinion.
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Behavioral economics: Reunifying psychology and economics | Proceedings of the National... - 0 views

  • A recent approach, “behavioral economics,” seeks to use psychology to inform economics, while maintaining the emphases on mathematical structure and explanation of field data that distinguish economics from other social sciences (1–3).
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The Relationship Between Psychology and Economics - 0 views

  • Psychology is a science which explains behavior of people and it cannot be ignored that psychology has a profound effect on economics.
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Journal of Economic Psychology - Elsevier - 0 views

  • The Journal aims to present research that will improve understanding of behavioral, in particular psychological, aspects of economic phenomena and processes.
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Why Behavioral Economics Is Cool, and I'm Not | HuffPost - 0 views

  • People conserve more energy when they see their neighbors’ consumption rates.
  • Hypothesis 2: Behavioral economists do more interesting work than psychologists.
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Why Economics Is Really Psychology on Steroids - Evonomics - 0 views

  • This has enabled them to declaim under the banner of “science,” and has given them a hook on which to hang their arcane math.
  • d in a multitude of ways, people are trying to resurrect the social dimension of economic life that the corporate market version increasingly has displaced.
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What Is Behavioral Economics? | Psychology Today - 0 views

  • behavioral economics shows that actual human beings do not act that way. People have limited cognitive abilities and a great deal of trouble exercising self-control.
  • That is, there is no dominant decision maker. Although the behavioral goal of an individual can be stated as maximizing happiness, reaching that goal requires contributions from several brain regions.
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    "Behavioral Economics"
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Economics | Britannica.com - 0 views

  • Economics, social science that seeks to analyze and describe the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth.
  • Supply responds to that demand, and in the United States alone some 400 institutions of higher learning grant about 900 new Ph.D.’s in economics each year.
  • This involves the discovery of two key elements: what governs the way in which human labour, machines, and land are combined in production and how buyers and sellers are brought together in a functioning market.
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The Key to Good Politics? Good Communication | Center on Representative Government - 0 views

  • chief among them is the ability to communicate. Politics — both getting elected and making a meaningful contribution to public life — is largely about interaction with other people.
  • lots of us it's a skill we learn with practice, and it's invaluable to a politician. 
  • More than a few times, I've prepared for a public appearance only to have my speech become irrelevant when some national issue became the only topic people were interested in discussing. 
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  • They prefer dialogue with their elected representative rather than a set speech. 
  • Any public policy debate of consequence will have good points on both sides, and learning to welcome multiple perspectives is vital. 
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Psychology and Anthropology - 0 views

  • PSYCHOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY ASHIQ MUHAMMED A 14IAME13 UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD
  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION. • IT IS CONCERNED WITH THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF PRIMITIVE MAN AND THEIR CULTURE, TRADITION, CUSTOMS, AND MANNERS.
  • PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY • PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SUBFIELD OF ANTHROPOLOGY THAT STUDIES THE INTERACTION OF CULTURAL AND MENTAL PROCESSES •
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  • FREUD’S PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY BRIDGED THE TWO AND GAVE PSYCHOLOGY A HISTORICAL ELEMENT . FREUD’S EXCURSIONS INTO ANTHROPOLOGY, STILL HEAVILY PSYCHOLOGICAL IN NATURE, WERE INCLUDED IN HIS BOOK ‘TOTEM AND TABOO ’(1946),
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