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Misinformation. Job displacement. Information overload. Economic inequality. Digital addiction. The breakdown of democracy, civility, and truth itself. This open access book explores the conscious and unconscious norms, values, and characteristics…

Carotenoids represent a large group of isoprenoid structures with many different structural
characteristics and biological activities. They are the most important pigments of those occurring
in nature and are responsible for the various colors of…

The computational theory of mind, which views the brain as an information processor that operates on cognitive representations, is central to modern cognitive psychology and is the dominant perspective from which brain function is conceptualized and…

Trauma presents as a negative experience or situation of an individual in which coping mechanisms do not always work perfectly. This leads to the appearance of disturbing behavior, thinking, or developing disorders in the area of mental illnesses.…

Warts are the most common lesions caused by human
papillomavirus (HPV). Recent research suggests that oxidative stress and inflammation are involved
in the pathogenesis of HPV-related lesions. It has been shown that the soluble receptor for…

The publication of this book, East Asian Philosophies and Psychology: Towards Psychology of Self-cultivation, signifies an important breakthrough for the indigenization movements of psychology which have happened in many non-Western countries since…

Chronic pain is a relevant health problem frequently associated with psychological distress, dysfunctions in physical and social functioning, reductions in quality of life and elevated direct and indirect costs. Medical approach is typically useful…

Today, new technologies, such as microarrays or high-performance sequencing, are producing
more and more genomic data. This fact has brought new opportunities and challenges in the fields
of computational biology and bioinformatics, since this huge…

This book provides an overview of the research related to psychological assessment across South Africa. The thirty-six chapters provide a combination of psychometric theory and practical assessment applications in order to combine the currently…

Over the past two decades, considerable research efforts in academia and industry have gone into pharmaceutical cocrystals. As a result, a large number of studies on both fundamental aspects and applications of cocrystallisation have been published,…