The halo effect refers to the tendency to allow one specific trait or our overall impression of a person, company or product to positively influence our judgment of their other related traits. A single positive quality of a person may induce a positive predisposition toward every aspect of that person while one negative attribute of […]
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Gary Ridgway was the most prolific serial in the history of the United States. His 19-year reign of terror left the area surrounding Seattle littered with corpses. All the girls were young. A lot of them grew up in abusive homes and they were running away, as a result of that, they were prostitutes. In
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Imagery is a mental performance improvement technique that involves “programming” body and mind with the purpose of responding optimally in a performance situation. The technique is based on the notion that an imagined action activates an internal cognitive representation that is the same as the cognitive representation underlying the “actual” action (see Holmes & Collins,
The history of hypnosis dates back to the late 18th century when Franz Mesmer, a German physician, whose system of therapeutics, known as mesmerism, was the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism. He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; this he called “animal
Kenneth Bianchi was born in 1951 in Rochester, New York. The child of a prostitute who didn’t want him and gave him to a neighbor to take care of for a day, who then gave him to another neighbor to take care of for a day, to another neighbor… Basically for 4 months there was
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Learned Helplessness is a phenomenon that occurs when a series of negative outcomes or stressors cause someone to believe that the outcomes of life are out of one’s control. They believe that they are unable to control or change the situation, so they do not try, even when opportunities for change are available. If a
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Guilt: a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime, wrong, etc., whether real or imagined. Shame: the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another. Shame and guilt have much in common: they are self-conscious emotions, implying self-reflection and self-evaluation (e.g., Tangney & Tracy,
Familicide is defined as one family member who murders other members of their family, commonly taking the lives of all. It is most often used to describe cases where a parent, usually the father, kills his wife and children and then himself. Familicide is commonly intertwined with the term ‘family annihilator’ stemming from the act
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Shan’ann Cathryn Rzucek, Shanann, was born in 1984 in North Carolina. When she was about 18 she married for about six years, before it ended in divorce. It was during one of her challenging life experiences in August of 2010, having just been in a car accident and facing the painful recovery process, as well
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A forced confession is a confession obtained from a suspect or a prisoner by means of torture or other forms of duress. Depending on the level of coercion used, a forced confession is not valid in revealing the truth. The individuals being interrogated may agree to the story presented to them or even make up
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