Empirical

To what extend have the predictions of the customs union theory been supported by the empirical evidence in Europe? What are the problems of empirically testing customs union theory? Since the end of the second world war, there has been many forms of economic integration proposed and implemented. In order for us to understand a customs union, we must understand what it means to be in a free trade area which is the first level of economic integration. A free trade area is where member countries…

employability is based on objective reality, while perceived employability is based on individual’s subjective evaluation. The human capital (i.e., job qualification) is considered one of the variables that increase individual’s employability, and some empirical studies pointed…

One of the best known approaches to understanding personality traits related to professional interests is the Career Typology and Environmental Models proposed by Holland (1959 , 1997 ). This approach was developed to meet needs concerning the professional qualification of individuals in the United States in the mid-20th century. Career interests are expressions of life's objectives, values, identifications, competencies and the abilities of individuals within the professional sphere,…

Empirical foundation and levels of efficacy in technique are huge components in how to make the connection between theories applied, technique used, type of person and counseling style. In the article by Lazarus and Beutler (1993), the point is suggested that…

Intervention looks at altering the environment (social) and cognitive processing (psychological) by identifying and restructuring cognitive distortions. CBT is at the forefront of therapy techniques that have empirical evidence support, likewise it can be adapted into other therapies. There is high empirical…

Annotated Bibliography: Communication is a Process Theory Stephane Monthe California State University Fullerton Egan, T. (2014). The Corporate Daddy: Walmart, Starbucks, and the Fight against Inequality. The New York Times. The article is a jibe at Wal-Mart Supermarket, which the author accuses of paying its employees a pittance salary that cannot manage to help eliminate the gap between the rich and the poor. The author also compares the poor efforts being done by the…

that ethical egoism denies is important. Rather than claiming that only one's own interests matter, this argument states that paying attention to one's own interests is the most effective means to furthering the interests of everyone. It is thus an empirical claim about the best way to benefit people generally, not a normative claim about whose interests ought to count. A second argument for ethical egoism is that altruistic ethics (i.e., those that require one to help others even without…

Annotated Bruchi, A., Lende, D., Schuartz, M., Sterk, C., (2006). Craving and control: Methamphetamine users’ narratives. Journal of psychoactive drugs. Retrieved from ProQuest Central. This article focuses on three different carvings a user goes through. The first type of craving described is cue-induced craving where the user is reminded by cues of certain situations, objects, people or ideas. The next craving is drug- induced craving, this is when a person is already high and believes he or…

Castiglione presents his ideals through theoretical means; meanwhile, Machiavelli does the same through empirical means. In Castiglione’s work, though he spent much of his time at court, the described courtier is not based on real life and his descriptions are simply ideals that he formed through his studies in classical and medieval literature (Matthews & Platt…

If this is how it is, humans must simply be some kind of aesthetic phenomena, for nature craved an empirical explanation of its own existence, just as the Apollonian need for an image to make sense of reality paved way for empirical…