Personal Development Theory

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This page is a hub for the theories, research and major contributors to the field of personal development and the psychology of success.

Click on a personal development concept for more information

6 Steps to Change
Bounded Rationality
Cognitive Dissonance
Conscious Competence
Consistency
Contrast Principle
Discounting the Future
Duel Process Thinking
Emotional Intelligence
Ethics (coming soon)
Failure Coping Strategies
Goal Theory (coming soon)
Johari Window (coming soon)
Learned Helplessness (coming soon)
Locus of Control
Maintain the Status Quo
Mental Accounting (coming soon)
Mental Shopping List (coming soon)
Meta-Cognition

Mirroring (coming soon)
Motivation Theory (coming soon)
NLP (coming soon)
Peer Expectations (coming soon)
Pleasure Principle (coming soon)
Rationalisation (coming soon)
Rules (coming soon)
Self Efficacy (coming soon)
Self Image (coming soon)
Self Talk (coming soon)
Social Proof (coming soon)
Time Management (coming soon)
Values & Beliefs (coming soon)

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Milgrim Experiment (coming soon)
Stanford Prison Experiment (coming soon)
Hawthorne Experiments (coming soon)
Marshmallow Experiment (coming soon)
Football Fans and Locus of Control (coming soon)
Authority Experiments (coming soon)
Fear of Dogs: Bandura's Experiments (coming soon)
Death by Social Proof (coming soon)

Click on the name of a personal development expert for more information

Aaron Beck (coming soon)
Abraham Maslow (coming soon)
Albert Bandura (coming soon)
Alfred Adler (coming soon)
Anthony Robbins (coming soon)
Bernie Siegel (coming soon)
Bob Proctor (coming soon)
Brian Tracy (coming soon)
Chris Widener (coming soon)
Dale Carnegie (coming soon)
Daniel Goleman (coming soon)
David Bandler (coming soon)
David J Schwatrtz (coming soon)
David McClelland (coming soon)
Donna Kretch (coming soon)
Earl Nightingale (coming soon)
Edgar Schein (coming soon)
Edward de Bono (coming soon)

Frederick Herzberg (coming soon)
Hilary "Zig" Ziglar (coming soon)
Howard Gardner - Multiple intelligences/five minds (coming soon)
Jim Rohn (coming soon)
Joan Freeman (coming soon)
John Grinder (coming soon)
Kurt Goldstein (coming soon)
Kurt Lewin (coming soon)
Lou Holtz (coming soon)
Mark Victor Hansen (coming soon)
Og Mandino (coming soon)
Victor Vroom (coming soon)
Robert Cialdini (coming soon)
Robert Kiyosaki (coming soon)
Russell Conwell (coming soon)
Stephen Covey (coming soon)

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Click on a management concept for more information

Action Logics (The 7 transformations of leadership) (coming soon)
Belbin's team roles (coming soon)
Direct/Indirect/People/Task (coming soon)
Kolb's Learning cycle (coming soon)
Learning Styles (coming soon)
Management structures (coming soon)
Models of change (coming soon)
Multiple Intelligences (coming soon)
Organisational culture (coming soon)
Presentation Skills (coming soon)
SMART Objectives (coming soon)
Types of manager (coming soon)
Transformational Leadership (coming soon)