PSYCHOLOGICAL

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a mental/psychiatric/psychological disorder (= affecting the mind )

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He was diagnosed with a severe psychiatric disorder.

a psychological advantage

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Winning the first game gives you a psychological advantage over your opponent.

an emotional/psychological impact

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Their mother’s death had a huge emotional impact on the children.

physical/psychological/material etc well-being

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the physical and emotional well-being of the children

psychological problems ( also mental health problems )

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She is being treated for psychological problems at a mental hospital in Oxford.

psychological/emotional harm

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Depriving a child of love does irreparable emotional harm.

psychological/mental/emotional scars

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The mental scars left by the accident are still with him.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

purely

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Feminists also tend to diminish the significance of the unconscious, a move which encourages a purely psychological view of the subject.

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As for the effects of Polly Peck's troubles on Vestel, Karan claimed they were purely psychological .

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This, like most of the purely psychological theories - including psychoanalytic ones - are strictly methodological-individualistic.

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Sometimes they assume that such relations can be altered by intervening at this purely psychological level.

■ NOUN

advantage

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The psychological advantages or disadvantages on woman and fetus must be addressed and researched so that informed decisions can still be made.

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At this point the police had the tactical and psychological advantage .

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It was clearly intended to gain a crushing psychological advantage , before a blow had been struck.

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This seemed to gain him a psychological advantage , since White's opening initiative had evidently petered out by this point.

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Some patients seemed to gain psychological advantages from being ill with their neuroses, and were peculiarly difficult to cure.

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It would have given him a psychological advantage over lunch, but he missed it on the high side.

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That gave them a psychological advantage .

aspect

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To develop an understanding of the psychological aspects of nursing care. 4.

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In regard to the use of field interviewers, the social and psychological aspects of studies are all too often ignored.

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At both stages, coping can have behavioural and psychological aspects .

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In the long run it will probably be the psychological aspect of dejobbing that people find most difficult.

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In terms of the psychological aspect of it, the soldier on the other side is a soldier of the Bundeswehr.

barrier

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It is less satisfactory if there is a danger of creating a psychological barrier to doing something positive about getting another job.

damage

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The scourge had abated, but psychological damage had been done, which was not so readily repaired.

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You should also be aware of the psychological damage you are capable of doing to yourself.

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On this occasion City accepted with relish the chances which came their way and inflicted serious psychological damage on their dejected opponents.

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Men can be passive without grave psychological damage only if the women are passive also.

disorder

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Traumatic experiences in the womb lie at the root of all sorts of psychological disorders .

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With Western women, it was a psychological disorder , a pathetic response to the charge of never being good enough.

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In some patients, psychological disorders may be even more important.

distress

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The analysis will also take into account the psychological distress resulting from unemployment, which is known to vary considerably by country.

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Flights in close quarters can also lead to back pain, swollen ankles, leg cramps and psychological distress .

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Adding to physiological disturbances is the psychological distress that is invariably involved.

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Of course a horse's physical needs have to be satisfied to avoid psychological distress too.

effect

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The Daemon-room is not affected by any psychological effects or illusions.

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The psychological effects of being told what to eat can also be demeaning.

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But they are concerned about the psychological effect the experience may have on the girls.

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But the good psychological effect of the joint electorate would be erased by the separate one.

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This psychological effect can be quite powerful.

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But we get no dietitians who might wonder about the physical and psychological effects of abstaining from real food.

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The long-term psychological effects of this kind of violence can be devastating.

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Nor do they typically describe the psychological effects of dieting in their scientific papers.

explanation

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They check feminism's tendency to draw uncritically on psychological explanations .

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Dark psychological explanations can also be found for our plight.

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So there is the psychological explanation .

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I personally favoured a psychological explanation .

factor

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The research aims to investigate some of the social psychological factors that have helped to maintain the present conflict.

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Cisneros said psychological factors also prevent some women from owning homes.

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Like most measures of morbidity sickness absence is influenced by social and psychological factors as well as illness.

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Here again psychological factors are offered as an explanation.

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Yet these athletes seem to feel there was an additional, psychological factor involved, one connected with the act of willing.

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There are psychological factors to be taken into account, too.

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First of all, how do we find out-or decide-which amounts of which psychological factors are normal?

harm

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The researcher is asked to attempt to guarantee that the subject will be protected from physical or psychological harm .

impact

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The idea of hell fire is, quite simply, self perpetuating, because of its own deep psychological impact .

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It is difficult for the financially comfortable to appreciate the psychological impact of money on the poor.

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The political and psychological impact of what has happened will be felt over the next few years.

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But it also had an unexpected psychological impact on the gay world itself.

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Partly this may be due to that hidden psychological impact we have touched on before.

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Learn about the psychological impacts of life in this new work world, and put together a plan for handling them successfully.

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But this scene of Peter Grimes seems to me uniquely precise in its blend of realistic, formal and psychological impact .

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Now that this was no longer true, the psychological impact was profound.

insight

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The Barthelmes recount in vivid detail and with good psychological insight the trauma of coping with that dual loss.

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He was sure there were newer techniques, all much smarter and written up in books with deep psychological insights .

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And there's enough psychological insight to give the characters three dimensions.

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As evidenced by the above, she has no psychological insight .

method

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Communications also had a vocational emphasis, and was essentially inter-disciplinary, covering sociological and psychological methods of inquiry.

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Egalitarian feminist psychologists often revise psychological methods , but they reject the possibility that feminist psychology needs a specifically woman-centred method.

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But method is not the whole of psychology, and no psychological method is intrinsically feminist or anti-feminist.

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Individual-oriented psychological methods , like experiments and questionnaires, often seem to discriminate against women.

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This chapter looks at some of the ways in which traditional psychological methods express conventional discourses of gender.

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Woman-centred psychologists also criticize the gender bias of traditional psychological method .

need

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Again, the placebo could be powerful because it meets some psychological need for attention and treatment.

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All he can consistently say is that the theory will perpetuate itself if it appeals to some deep psychological need .

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Other conditioned psychological needs can be an extension of a horse's basic requirements, and may be quite destructive to it.

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These are ideas that replicate because of psychological needs , not because of rational discussions.

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Horses can produce all sorts of conditioned psychological needs , according to how they have been handled by their owners.

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Do ideas replicate because of psychological needs ?

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It has a psychological need for space.

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It should not be thought of as merely useful, however, as though it only pandered to psychological needs or desires.

problem

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A rebuilt Holloway prison was to cater for the physical and psychological problems of women offenders.

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She said there are no more psychological problems among Ipalook students than among those at any other school with a similar profile.

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More difficult would be patients with a deep seated psychological problem which would require more than three months' treatment.

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At points this chapter steps outside the traditional boundaries of economics, and discusses some psychological problems in making monetary policy.

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Some take on different roles at different times, apparently without suffering any psychological problems .

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The misinterpretation of behavior as pathology also results quite often from the labeling of social problems as individual psychological problems.

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Social isolation, in turn, is known to be associated with various measures of social and psychological problems in later life.

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We further found that certain physical and physiologic profiles put children at risk for specific types of learning and psychological problems .

process

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Here Moscovici is offering a universal postulate about social psychological processes .

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Significantly, it has been held back also by the absence of concepts suited to expressing the psychological processes involved in perception.

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Is a function a psychological process or is it a neural process?

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There is a general consensus that psychological processes are a function of the whole brain, not of its constituent parts.

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Errors have generally been attributed to cognitive causes, evidence of the learner's psychological process of rule formation.

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We are reasonably certain there are psychological processes unique to our own species.

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Using animals in experiments requires us to make inferences about psychological processes from behaviour.

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Many of the theories that are published are not really theories of psychological processes at all, but are theories of experimental phenomena.

reality

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It is also motivated by psycholinguistic evidence, although we make no claims of psychological reality for the model.

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They seem to have a certain psychological reality for native speakers as units of knowledge in spite of their abnormality as units of behaviour.

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They simply point to the fact that language is being produced and do not involve any questions of psychological reality .

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Do reductions of poems have anything like the same psychological reality ?

research

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But psychological research seems to indicate that they do not necessarily cancel each other out.

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A major activity of psychological research is to try to clarify the nature of constructs and verify their existence.

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Feminists often turn to psychological research on gender to answer their questions, but they find its male orientation disappointing.

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Interestingly, much of the psychological research is now being used to argue for an organic cause.

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But women are still under- or unrepresented among subjects in many areas of psychological research .

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These effects, which have been well documented in recent psychological research , are called epigenetic rules.

state

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That's why I think he's in a much better psychological state .

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Confidence is in one sense a delicate psychological state .

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P, A and C are actual psychological states due to the three functions of the brain in recording, recalling and reliving.

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Consenting in one's heart is not a performative consent but a psychological state akin to coming to terms with.

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It provides a single quality of life score based on indexes of perceived physical wellbeing, psychological state , and sociability.

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What matters, they claim, is the psychological state of the worker and the skills he or she possesses.

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They're all in the mind; experiences like abductions are psychological states that we don't understand.

stress

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Theoretical Basis of Relaxation Training Relaxation induces physiological effects opposite in nature to those induced by psychological stress .

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By implication, Walshe was clearly stating that a genetic readiness plus a long-term psychological stress results in cancer.

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Working towards incompatible goals can cause a great deal of psychological stress .

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Naturally, most people thrown out of work do not like it and suffer psychological stress .

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There are also new pressures on individuals, including both personal and psychological stresses .

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The psychological stress aggravates the physical stress upon the horse.

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A high level of concern about children was the main factor in psychological stress among men as well as women.

study

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Though this derives from psychological studies of covert actions types, it would be waste to leave it at that.

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But psychological studies showed that they had learning problems.

support

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The most effective way of organising specialist care is through sickle cell centres, which can offer both clinical and psychological support .

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The strain on the health system can be lessened by family, social, and psychological support mechanisms in the community.

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In our study special attention was paid to the selection, training, and psychological support of the interviewers.

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Nursing care requires the early detection and management of toxicities; offering patients psychological support is also essential.

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Simple psychological support is required by many and can be easily provided in this framework.

test

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The question is, can the use of psychological tests during the selection process help to predict this future performance?

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All civilians possessing army-distributed guns must return them and undergo physical and psychological tests to determine their fitness to bear arms.

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The findings led to a widespread belief that psychological tests were situation specific and therefore limited in their usefulness for personnel selection.

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Often sessions would include psychological tests designed to gauge workers' personality traits: extroverted, introverted, thoughtful, or driving.

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The techniques include in-depth, and less-structured, interviews, discussion groups, role playing and psychological tests .

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So far, this discussion has examined the usefulness of psychological tests in selection procedures in terms of their predictive validity.

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Currently, time-consuming psychological tests are carried out only when a patient is in an advanced state of dementia.

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Recent attempts by psychologists to arrive at psychological tests which identify desirable characteristics in candidates has had only limited success.

theory

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And feminist psychologists are still predominantly concerned with making egalitarian corrections to traditional psychological theories , rather than working with their uncertainties.

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In most cases, general psychological theories have been loosely related to politically relevant behavior.

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The psychological theories of political leaders and the state reviewed here have strong echoes in New Right thinking.

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The biological aspect of woman-centred psychological theories provides them with some theoretical distinctiveness.

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The rhetorical perspective has explicitly criticized the one-sidedness of much cognitive social psychological theory and its emphasis upon schematic categorization.

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Feminist psychological theories tend to gloss over class relations, too.

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The biological and psychological theories stressed this distinctiveness.

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This is not a problem for most contemporary utilitarians since they usually hold no such psychological theory .

warfare

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Like the military machinery, the psychological warfare gets ever more sophisticated.

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A portable sound system blared military marches, part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare .

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As a last resort he decided to take a leaf out of the Oriental's book, by using psychological warfare against him.

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But no one was better equipped for the psychological warfare that lay ahead.

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Fred made up for his lack of inches by waging psychological warfare in the form of a relentless monologue.

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Secrecy was out of the question; it would riot have been psychological warfare .

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During the war he worked in psychological warfare , and doubtless learnt many of his more infuriating tricks of debating and persuasion.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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psychological problems

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Doctors dismissed her complaints of pain as psychological .

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She works with children who have psychological problems.

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Sometimes psychological abuse is worse than physical abuse.

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The cause of a physical illness can often be psychological .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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But his results in the past two years suggest he has at least partly overcome that psychological handicap.

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Feminist psychologists' current shift towards more psychological work may increase these limitations.

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Here Moscovici is offering a universal postulate about social psychological processes.

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I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way.

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In this way, he gained a lot of insight into the psychological make-up of different sheep in his flock.

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Moreover, the illness leads to profound regression, and the patient needs help to resume normal psychological growth.

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The difficult part is dealing with the personality of the patient, the so-called psychological or human factor.

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The social psychological survey also left a legacy in the attitudinal questions which are very often contained in questionnaires.