James McKeen Cattell was an American psychologist who was the first professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. ... Hugo Munsterberg, a German-American psychologist, believed that psychology applies to everyday life. ... It was officially recognized by the American Psychological Association a few years ago. The American Psychology-Law Society, connected to the American Psychological Association, currently has about 3,000 members and the numbers still continue to increase. ... There are about three-thousand members in the American Psychology-Law Society, and it is still growing. ...

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Alberta is about the size of Texas, with only two urban centres containing about half the province's population, (1.5 million people). ... At that time there were limited community resources for this population and none that provided campus-based (residential) short-term intensive treatment in a community context. ... A feasibility study revealed that the population in these two quadrants consisted largely of single-parent families. ... Alberta has a population of 3 million people, with only two major urban centres; Calgary, with 900,000 and Edmonton, with 666,000 citizens. ... In recent ...

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According to the customs of North American society, it is encouraged that people speak out about their private relationships and feelings. ... "American academic psychology has taken for granted the values of self-expression, self-control, and self-efficacy. These values fit with American ideals of expressive and utilitarian individualism. ... American culture teaches to value someone who is able to speak out about his true feelings and even categorizes someone as being emotionally distressed when unable to express needs and wants. ... By using this as a criteria to define a "healthy...

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One of the most famous advocates of this approach was the 19th century Italian physician Caesare Lombroso (1936-1909), who argued that "criminals are the product of a genetic constitution unlike that found in the non-criminal population." ... Bartol et al (1979) tested 398 inmates, most of African-American and Hispanic origins using the EPQ (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire). ...

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