"Had Max Weber lived among the Hausa", Mr Beattie sniffs, "he might well have concluded that Muslims were good for growth and constructed his convoluted psychological theories around the tenets of Islam".
On the psychological front, the truth is that the tenets of Youtility--making your company inherently useful without expecting an immediate return--is in direct opposition to the principles of marketing and business deeply ingrained in practitioners at all levels.
The gospel consists of three tenets: happiness is the supreme goal, problems stem from psychological causes, and those psychological problems are treatable.
In a 2011 report in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, Dr. Herzog took aim at a central tenet of pet ownership: the widely touted evidence that pets are good for people.
[6] This basic tenet not only guides basic neurobiological and psychological research but has been the foundation for a great many robotics applications [7] [9] as well as for speculations on the future societal impact of neuroscience [3], [10], [11].
Only the most general features of Alexander's theology and philosophy have been made clear: basically an Augustinian, he had to some extent taken into account the psychological, physical, and metaphysical doctrines of Aristotle, while discarding popular Avicennian tenets of emanations from a Godhead.
From a psychological perspective such observations underline the significance of a central tenet of self-categorisation theory's analysis of group behaviour in general (SCT; Turner et al., 1987) and crowd behaviour in particular (Reicher, 1987, 2001).
This tenet states that "involvement refers to the investment of psychological and physical energy to various objects [(Astin 1993) p.519].
These findings are consistent with the tenets of family system theory, where each family member has a psychological and emotional influence on other family members; in addition, these elements reciprocally influence and are influenced by other family members' thoughts, feelings, and actions.
