Essays about: "psychological realism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words psychological realism.
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1. Children’s sense of place : What places and aspects are important to children in the process of generating a sense of place?
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : A city user that is often neglected in these fast urban transitions is the children. Even if Swedish planning offices aim to increase the focus on children, they are hindered by a lack of knowledge, leading to adult-created places not rooted in children's actual needs. READ MORE
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2. History, Progress, Morality : An Inquiry on the Metaethics of Moral Progress
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleAbstract : In this essay, I examine the interplay between history, progress, and morality, as it is discussed explicitly or implicitly in the metaethical literature. At first sight, it is perhaps intuitive that these three are necessarily intertwined and mutually dependent, as if they were casually connected. READ MORE
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3. The Consequences of Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved : A Psychoanalytic Reading of Sethe and Denver
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay’s main focus is on Sethe and her daughter Denver in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and how they try to survive the trauma that comes from slavery. By using psychoanalysis as a theoretical framework, the essay examines what psychological reactions Sethe and Denver have as two traumatised characters, and what happens to them psychologically when they are forced to face the repressed. READ MORE
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4. Acid Realities. How Science Enacts the Psychedelic Experience
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaperAbstract : The present work has explored how the psychedelic experience is discursively reproduced in contemporary psychological- and neuroscientific research. In focus was scientific articles detailing experimental human studies with LSD, or comparative studies pertaining to subjects previous psychedelic experiences and psychedelic drug use. READ MORE
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5. Cosmopolitan Soft Skills : Capturing the Toolkit Fostering Human Flourishing by an Intersecting of Theory and Empirical Data
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktikAbstract : While globalisation is a multidimensional phenomenon, present educational foci tend to lie not on preparing students for a complex, globalised 21stcentury, but on preparing students for a 21st-century economic globalisation. In order to advocate a change of consciousness, this present study examines the concept of human flourishing and the skills – referred to as cosmopolitan soft skills – fostering the phenomenon. READ MORE
