Another element of horse mounted warfare is the psychological impact a mounted soldier can inflict on an opponent.

Moreover, these unconventional troops created a psychological impact over the enemy, which was not used to dealing with horse troops, having no training or strategy to face them.

This decree effectively outlawed competitive outdoor mourning, which could have had a devastating psychological impact upon the survivors.

By the time the fighting ended in November 1918, the war had had a profound impact, affecting the social, political and economic systems of Europe and inflicting psychological and physical damage.

Biologically, levels of hormones such as testosterone are believed to affect sex drive ; social factors, such as work and family, also have an impact ; as do internal psychological factors, like personality and stress.

As such, the usurper Pepin made shearing Childeric his foremost strategic goal, correctly reasoning that the psychological impact of cutting Childeric's famed hair would be more critical in deposing the dynasty.

However, following the third volume, Mahfouz shifted his interest to the present, the psychological impact of the social change on ordinary people.

While early psychophysiologists almost always examined the impact of psychological states on physiological system responses, since the 1970s, psychophysiologists also frequently study the impact of physiological states and systems on psychological states and processes.

Event chain methodology helps to mitigate the negative impact of psychological heuristics and biases, as well as to allow for easy modeling of uncertainties in the project schedules.

Although the economic impact was small, the psychological impact on slaveholders of an informal network to assist escaped slaves was immense.

# Education and accurate information about Vestibulodynia: Gynaecologist-led educational seminars delivered in a group format have a significant positive impact on psychological symptoms and sexual functioning in women who suffer from Provoked ( caused by a stimulus such as touch or sexual activity ) Vestibulodynia.

There is a wealth of research produced about the impact of groupware in organizations and related social and psychological issues since the early eighties.

The APA has task forces which issue policy statements on various issues of social import such as the psychological impact of abortion ; ; human rights such as detainee welfare, human trafficking, and rights for the mentally ill ; intelligence and IQ ; sexual orientation change efforts ; and gender differences.

In summary, social role theory “ treats these differing distributions of women and men into roles as the primary origin of sex-differentiated social behavior, their impact on behavior is mediated by psychological and social processes ” ( Eagly, 1997 ), including “ developmental and socialization processes, as well as by processes involved in social interaction ( e. g., expectancy confirmation ) and self-regulation ” ( Eagly et al., 2004 ).

Many torturers around the world use methods designed to have a maximum psychological impact while leaving only minimal physical traces.

: See Psychology of torture for psychological impact, and aftermath, of torture.

The psychological impact of this victory was so strong that Claudius became known to posterity as Claudius II Gothicus (" conqueror of the Goths ").

The Morris worm has sometimes been referred to as the " Great Worm ", because of the devastating effect it had on the Internet at that time, both in overall system downtime and in psychological impact on the perception of security and reliability of the Internet.

When dealing with the implications of a dirty bomb attack, there are two main areas to be addressed: ( i ) the civilian impact, not only dealing with immediate casualties and long term health issues, but also the psychological effect and then ( ii ) the economic impact.

In the days following Germany's defeat in World War II, at the age of 12, Hannelore Kohl was raped by Red Army soldiers and subsequently “ thrown out of a window like a sack of potatoes by the Russians .” In addition to the obvious psychological impact, the attacks left her with a fractured vertebra and back pain for the rest of her life.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.

Then Miriam varied the senseless psychological warfare by suddenly withdrawing a suit for separate maintenance that had been pending, and asking for divorce on the grounds of cruelty, with the understanding that Wright would not contest it.

The psychological incompatibility of these emotional states seems to be reflected in, or based on, this marked difference.

Progress is impeded by psychological inhibitions to effective action among those in power and by a failure on their part to understand how local resources, human and material, can be mobilized to achieve the national goals of modernization already symbolically accepted.

To raise the added objection that men require certainty on psychological grounds, answers to ultimate questions having an irrational rather than scientific basis, is in a real sense to undermine the objection itself.

First, the student trains on his hapless parents the heavy artillery of his newly acquired psychological and sociological insights.

Insomnia would ground him from the Exploration Service, on physiological if not psychological grounds.

There has been some debate on whether or not humans are truly capable of psychological altruism.

In psychological research on altruism, studies often observe altruism as demonstrated through prosocial behaviors such as helping, comforting, sharing, cooperation, philanthropy, and community service.

From this point on he establishes himself as a psychological detective who proceeds not by a painstaking examination of the crime scene, but by enquiring either into the nature of the victim or the psychology of the murderer.

Blitzkrieg as used by Germany had considerable psychological, or as some writers call, " terror " elements, such as the noise-making sirens on the Junkers Ju 87 dive-bombers to affect the morale of enemy forces.

During the war, the Condor Legion undertook the bombing of Guernica which had a tremendous psychological effect on the populations of Europe.

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (; ) or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood ( coming of age ), and in which character change is thus extremely important.

The primary focus is on understanding what it means biologically and psychologically for information to be present in consciousness — that is, on determining the neural and psychological correlates of consciousness.

Modern scientific investigations into consciousness are based on psychological experiments ( including, for example, the investigation of priming effects using subliminal stimuli ), and on case studies of alterations in consciousness produced by trauma, illness, or drugs.

During the decade, a range of other storylines featured, such as the bigamy of Peter Barlow and his addiction to alcohol, later in the decade, Maya Sharma's revenge on former lover Devendra Alahan, Katy Harris murdering her father and subsequently committing suicide, Charlie Stubbs's psychological abuse of Shelley Unwin, and the deaths of Mike Baldwin, Vera Duckworth and Fred Elliott.

* 1965, Essays on military psychological operations, Special Operations Research Office, American University

Holzkamp, who had written two books on theory of science and one on sensory perception before publishing the Grundlegung der Psychologie in 1983, thought this major work provided a solid paradigm for psychological research, as he viewed psychology as a pre-paradigmatic scientific discipline ( T. S.

Holzkamp mostly based his sophisticated attempt to provide a comprehensive and integrated set of categories defining the field of psychological research on Aleksey Leontyev's approach to cultural – historical psychology and activity theory.

The first part of the book thus contains an extensive look at the history of psychological theories of learning and a minute re-interpretation of those concepts from the perspective of the paradigm of critical psychology, which focuses on intentional action situated in specific socio-historical / cultural contexts.