psychology

Topics in psychology presented by Futurism.

The Boy With the Dead Eyes
Chapter 1: Life Before In the year of 2050, I live on edge. Constantly scared of what could happen to me the moment I set foot outside my door. My village, Crestmont, is extremely racially diverse. However the African American and Latino families are under a high surveillance. I always wondered why we were watched constantly, like prison inmates.We tend to stay out of trouble because we all know, that once the cops have us, we are no longer safe. This was all the doing of president Hades. He believed that by telling us that he was helping the minorities, that we would become oblivious and blind to what his real motives were. I was always that naive and optimistic girl in the neighborhood. I didn't want to believe what everyone told me. They all knew that I would have to experience, how not only our village, but our world treats us in order to understand. Boy were they right. I wish I would have believed them. But instead I had to witness the self destruction of the one person I had in this world: Dylan.
By Scorpio8 years ago in Futurism
Swing Your Arms Like You Don't Care
I was walking one day to work when suddenly a woman hit my arm with hers. Apparently she swings her arms wildly while walking. I asked myself if that was normal. Is that how people normally walk? It piqued my curiosity and started to oberve other people.
By Dan Kevin Dalioan8 years ago in Futurism
Intelligence: Reshaping The Human Brain
The brain is the very center of our humanity, personality, and sense of being, yet we know almost nothing about its massive complexity. With the help of advanced technology, scientists have been able to map and analyze the brain down the individual neurons that determine our every thought and function; however, intelligence, with its companions consciousness and memory has remained hidden despite everything.
By Justin Gignac8 years ago in Futurism
What Exactly is the Point of HSAM Research?
In the year 2000, a woman named Jill Price approached Dr. James McGaugh at the University of California, Irvine. She expressed that she had an unusual memory in which she would involuntarily relive her past all the time, and had great difficulty with letting go of her recollections. Dr. McGaugh was very interested in what Price was saying and was willing to gather a team of researchers to study her memory.
By Rebecca Sharrock8 years ago in Futurism
Sephro: The Connection
PROLOGUE Sephro is a magical planet, resplendent in beauty and guided by powerful Goddesses and Gods. Earth is broken yet beautiful, enduring, trying to survive. Two different planets which forge a connection so powerful it could strengthen not only Sephro and Earth but every planet, every solar system, every galaxy. And yet they are similar in many ways.
By Kate Quinn9 years ago in Futurism
Degradation
On the last day of his life, an alarm clock brings Peter Lindquist from the belly of night up to the stars of consciousness. He thinks, today I die, today I die, today I die. Some chemical response tightens his gut, but that could also be easily mistaken for his feeling of lust. Lindquist's primary focus swims in the fixed image of Megan, the volley of exoteric swells and informal curves that comprise her form, the softness of her skin, her lips, and her crass shamelessness.
By Eric Simpson9 years ago in Futurism
What Does Being Unable To Forget Feel Like?. Top Story - July 2017.
Whenever people hear that I’m unable to forget any day of my life, I often receive questions as to how it feels to live with all of those memories, and about whether or not my mind rests at all.
By Rebecca Sharrock9 years ago in Futurism
Grey Areas
Open thy eyes. It is said that we only see 5% directly and that we reconstruct the whole image of reality in our conscious and fill it in according to our beliefs.
By Ivan Chen9 years ago in Futurism
Chemical Mind
The brain is the most mysterious and highly complex device in the known universe, being composed of over 100 billion neurons, each with 10,000 or more possible connections, forming an astounding 100 trillion connections called synapses. Unlike other body cells, neurons never touch each other; instead, they are separated by gaps only 20-40 nanometers wide (to put this to scale, a piece of paper is roughly 100,000nm wide). Remember, these numbers don't include the neurons that exist within your body, some of which being as long as the distance from your head to your big toe!
By Justin Gignac9 years ago in Futurism
The Law of Attraction and Getting What You Want.
The universe we live in is made of energy. Everything we perceive is energy in some form or another, even our thoughts. All energy has a vibrational frequency, vibrating at a specific rate. We as beings transmit different frequencies of vibration into the universe. Our vibrations attract energies with the same vibrational frequency. This means that attitudes, emotions and even our thoughts that can raise or lower our vibrations that attract different energies to us, which in turn alters the physical world through its manifestation.
By Phillip Woodford9 years ago in Futurism
What is Astrology?
If you type "What is astrology?" into google you'll get an answer something like this: Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world.
By Jude Goodwin9 years ago in Futurism
Are IQ Tests Valid Measurements of Human Intelligence?
According to britannica.com, human intelligence is a mental quality that consists of the abilities to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstract concepts, and use knowledge to manipulate one’s environment. So, are IQ Tests valid measurements of human intelligence? And if not, then what is?
By Jeniah Clarke9 years ago in Futurism