Is there a direct relationship between children's developmental stages and maternal depression? Research suggests that children's development can be adversely affected by maternal depression. A depressed person has more negative cognitions than that of non-depressed counterparts. Depressed...

Author Robin Shephard Engel attempts to answer whether or not patrol supervisors effectively influence their officers' behavior. Engel examines data collected for the Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN). The POPN is a large-scale systematic observational study of police behavior including patro...

A prevailing area in social psychology is that of attribution theory. Attribution evaluates behaviour; seeking explanations for the decisions that people make about why particular events occurred or why certain individuals acted the way they did. A common sense approach taken by Heider (1958, cited ...