Essay Undergraduate 1,760 words

Learning by Association: Why Conditioning Shapes Behavior

Analytical essay on classical and operant conditioning arguing the two models reveal a deeper philosophical disagreement about whether organisms are passive or active learners.

Psychology

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,815 words

Moral Panic or Real Risk: Rethinking Video Game Violence

An analytical essay examining whether violent video games cause aggression in children, arguing the dominant causal narrative misreads flawed research while ignoring social context.

Psychology

~10 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,519 words

Conditioning the Self: Why Operant Outpaces Classical

An analytical essay arguing that operant conditioning offers a more complete account of human learning than classical conditioning by treating the learner as an active agent.

Psychology

~8 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,666 words

Learned Behavior: Why Conditioning Shapes All Voluntary Action

An analytical essay arguing that operant conditioning is the dominant framework for understanding voluntary human behavior, with classical conditioning serving as its motivational substrate.

Psychology

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 901 words

Kobasa's Hardiness Theory: Stress, Personality, and Health

A critical review of Kobasa's 1979 study on hardiness, stress, and illness, examining control, commitment, and challenge as key personality mediators.

Psychology

~5 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 751 words

Maternal Age and Autism Risk: Exploring Key Variables

Explores how parental age—especially maternal age—correlates with autism risk, and why no single variable fully explains rising autism diagnoses.

Psychology

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 761 words

Terrorism, Media, and Behavioral Science: Two Article Analysis

An analysis of two news articles exploring how terrorism and media coverage shape individual behavior, fear, and intergroup attitudes through a behavioral science lens.

Psychology

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,342 words

Ontological Humility and Business Model Innovation

Explores how ontological humility informs business model innovation (BMI), cognitive differentiation and integration, and academic ethics in double-publishing.

Business

~7 min read

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Reflection Paper Undergraduate 2,390 words

Person-Centered Therapy: Principles, Practice, and Youth

Explores person-centered counseling theory, its core principles, cultural and ethical challenges, and its application to therapy with teenagers and young adults.

Therapy

~12 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,907 words

Carl Jung's Personality Theory and Modern Assessment Tools

Explore Carl Jung's personality theory, his eight psychological types, and how Jungian concepts underpin modern personality tests used in employment screening.

Psychology

~10 min read

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