Manipulation is a form of persuasive influence. According to the criterion of the influence type, persuasion is interpersonal, group or collectively-social. By derivation and according to the criterion of the target, in our opinion, manipulations may be of three types: interpersonal...

Reffering to the book „Symbolic communication and seduction”, published at Tritonic Publishing House by Professor Sandu Frunza (Frunza, 2014), we observe that he has placed communication, and the symbolic function in general, in the center of the process of social construction of reality. In...

Currently, the security complex from the South-East Europe, situated in the area of modern confrontation between the major European powers (Germany, Russia, Great Britain and France), is undergoing a profound political, economic and military restructuring. The USA and NATO, within the UN and...

Management of chronic illness implies significant changing the lifestyle, taking medication, watching the diet, introducing and maintaining exercise in daily life, etc. These actions represent elements of adherence to treatment and they reflect the responsibility of patient’s participation to...

Schizophrenia is one of the most invalidating mental disorders due to its onset at an early age, the long term evolution, and the negative impact on the social, professional and relational life. The correlation between schizophrenia and violence is very complex and only partially predicted by...

The recent advances in neuroscience and the educational research may work together – a neuroscientific perspective adds a new dimension to the study of learning, and educational knowledge could direct the neuroscience research towards relevant areas. Researchers and educators may work together...

Moral values are the root of human behaviour, representing a link between individual orientations and individual behaviour. They are highly influenced by the social environment and by the social position, as well as by the way people analyse a situation, solve a problem and behave in a certain...

The issue of trust in the medical profession, in medical institutions, and in the healthcare system, implicitly, has been brought to the scientists’ attention lately, taking into account the erosion of trust, determined by the aggressive display in the media of medical personnel migration, of...

Transdisciplinarity and communicative action are the current fluid and irradiative concepts; are the concepts which support the moving of postmodernity toward transmodernity. The first concept is consecrated by Basarab Nicolescu and the second one is imposed by Jurgen Habermas. We emphasize that...

The aim of this study was to investigate the level of psychological strain and the influences of role overload, role conflict, and organizational injustice on psychological strain among Turkish nurses. This study adopted a cross-sectional, quantitative correlational study methodology. The study...