Sentences with phrase «modern psychological theories»

It can be argued with evidence that some modern psychological theories have themselves become obstacles to understanding personal relationships.

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Indeed, in a day when behaviorism as a psychological theory and coercive collectivism as a social ideal are popular, it may be salutary to recall that, far from being modern, both behaviorism and collectivism were primitive.

He has challenged most of the prominent modern theories of religion, including Marxism (religion is a mask for class consciousness), functionalism (religion serves as a moral restraint or social glue) and psychological reductionism (religion is a form of infantile wish fulfillment).

Seamlessly blending pop cultural imagery, color theory, and psychology, Yuskavage draws on classical and modern painterly techniques and, in particular, marshals color as a conduit for complex psychological constructs.

The K10 / K6 scales were developed to measure this dimension by using modern item response theory methods9 that select questions with optimal sensitivity in the 90th - to 99th - percentile range of the general population distribution of psychological distress and that have consistent item response theory sensitivities across a number of sociodemographic subsamples.

Within the framework of modern evolutionary biology, attachment theory focuses on the «gene - selfish» interest of children in receiving as much of their parents» physical as well as psychological resources as possible.5, 9 In terms of Trivers ’10 parent - offspring conflict paradigm, attachment theory focuses on the offspring's side of the conflict, and on the parent's willingness or unwillingness to invest in any particular individual offspring.