Fraud Psychology Underscores Importance of Affect-Script
In May, for a required course on finance in a Master’s Level class at Northwestern University, Daven Morrison presented a... Read More
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Why We All Need to Know About Silvan Tomkins
Tomkins' affect theory explains human emotion, motivation, behavior, and personality elegantly, completely, and convincingly. We owe it to him to test, retest, and apply his theory, so that we might unlock the good it can do and the truth it exposes.
