External influences

Adolescent development and external influences.

There are two different approaches to the definition of "normal" in adolescence: psychoanalytic interpretation and empirical research. They are not necessarily at odds but can complement each other if normalcy is viewed as a dependent variable. Its definition depends also on cultural rules, social values and expectancies, professional orientations, personality traits and political climate, whic...

Introduction: external influences beyond the dyad

Think about some decisions that you have made in your life, both small and big: what you tend to eat, what clothes you choose to wear, what car you drive, what schools you attended, what career you pursue. Would it surprise you to learn that these decisions were influenced by others around you, that you regularly take input from your broader social world in charting what to do?My strong suspici...

Internal and external influences on child language

External Influences on Supreme Court Decisions

Identifying external influences on global precipitation.

Changes in global (ocean and land) precipitation are among the most important and least well-understood consequences of climate change. Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations are thought to affect the zonal-mean distribution of precipitation through two basic mechanisms. First, increasing temperatures will lead to an intensification of the hydrological cycle ("thermodynamic" changes). Second,...