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Married singles refer to middle-aged couples that have grown apart emotionally but continue to live together

- Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) : Marsilio Ficino is the founder of a Platonic academy in 1462 and sought to do for Plato's philosophy what the Scholastics had done for Aristotle's.

Martin Heidegger contributed on writings on death, Dasein, and authenticity influenced existential psychological thought

- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) : Martin Heidegger expanded Husserl's Phenomenology to include an examination of the totality of human existence.

Mary Whiton Calkins was born in 1863. She was not allowed to receive her Ph.D.

- Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930) : Mary Whiton Calkins she satisfied all the requirements for a PhD at Harvard, but she was denied the degree because she was a woman. Calkins, inspite of such restrictions, made significant contributions to the study of Verbal learning and Memory and to Self Psychology. Being elected the first female president of the American Psychological Association in 1905 is one of the many honors she received.

Masculinity is defined as the ideal cluster of traits that society attributes to males. Masculinity, moreover, is defined as gender traits associated with being instrumental and agentic, examples are, having leadership abilities, being assertive, taking control

Masculinity-Femininity refers to a personality trait indicating the extent to which a person possesses sextyped characteristics, with masculine characteristics at one end of the trait continuum and feminine characteristics at the other end.

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