psychology

Studying the complexities of the human mind and its many functions and behaviors.

The concept of self explained through the different domains of psychology.
Adam Francis Personality of Psychology 05/08/19 Jane Nugent FINAL EXAM TAKE-HOME ESSAY QUESTION PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY
By Adam Francis6 years ago in Longevity
Review of Jonathan Haidt's Book The Righteous Mind
I have been confusing for a long time about what isolates us into political groups in this nation and what to do about it. My better half discovered this book and recommended it to me. It's anything but an unusual book. It is all around explored and archived. I would propose perusing it in little sections and setting aside some effort to process what you have perused. There are 376 pages in the content and 114 pages of notes and references. I can't do equity to the entire book in an audit yet will give you a portion of the features. Haidt considers human to be as "moralistic, basic and critical." We usually consider ourselves to be arriving at a resolution in different manners and afterward creating emotions about our convictions. He finishes up from his and others' exploration that we have this regressive. We initially build up a supposition through instinct and experience and afterward search approaches to legitimize what we feel/think. He presents five good establishments whereupon we base our view of ourselves, one another and the world. First is the component of care/hurt in which we pay special mind to the helpless among us. Second is reasonableness/cheating with dissidents progressively worried about correspondence and traditionalists increasingly worried about proportionality (getting what you merit). Third is dependability/treachery which includes firm alliances and dangers to your gathering. Fourth is authority/disruption or duty regarding request and equity. Fifth and last is holiness/corruption, worried about the respectable and unadulterated parts of society. Nonconformists will in general be generally worried about the initial two establishments while moderates are commonly worried about each of the five.
By Shekhar Rana Magar6 years ago in Longevity
The Cult of 'Mindset'
Trigger warning: this article contains some discussion of rape and rape culture. I love me some spiritual shiz. Tarot cards, astrology books, yoga, mediation. All the good stuff.
By Stephanie Nation6 years ago in Longevity
Our Hearing Capabilities Eke Us Out
Even the very deaf human individuals are capable of perceiving sounds. Every which way, the ultimate creator did notice the very quivering of this world. He gifted the first creatures with "ears" (either ears or body parts of similar function), to get vibes of such a motion and survive. By the very moment, they first crawled upon the mainland; the first land-dwelling creatures had already evolved their lungs to hear.
By susan carlene6 years ago in Longevity
Will The Sun Rise Tomorrow?
If the sun rises on the eastern horizon every morning, are we right to expect it to do so tomorrow? Well, yes and no!
By Charles Leon6 years ago in Longevity
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES.
IQ tests are very intimidating and at the same time compulsive. We want it and don’t want it at the same time. What if the test decides I don’t have as high a score as I thought I should have? Will I only show someone else if it’s high enough, (or potentially lie)? What does it actually mean anyway?
By Charles Leon6 years ago in Longevity
The Nostalgia Factor
Memories of the past rise as I travel onward. Moments of happy times remind me of how it used to be. Streaming sites update and what's seen is what I used to grow up with. The programs that use to be on the tv boxes that always had me adjust my life to where I would catch it in its time slot. The temporary separation from the world was more than a disconnect but a way of learning. Learning that gave a different perspective then what was presented. I scroll through Netflix to see it all, Xena: the Warrior Princess, Charmed, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Pieces of my generation collected together for those to binge-watch.
By The Kind Quill6 years ago in Longevity
Trust
I recently saw the new iPhone commercial on TV. You hardly see the phone, but what you see is the exquisite packaging. Why would they do that?
By Charles Leon6 years ago in Longevity
In and Out of Touch: Is Skin Hunger Skin Deep?
It was day 48 when Perrey Lee finally cried. Or 50. Whichever day it was since March 15, the last day she touched a human.
By Megan Feringa6 years ago in Longevity
The World once left behind | Part 2
2. Children’s capricious capabilities. Above all, children do own the abilities we could hardly ever bear in mind. By their very first months, infants would have already developed the ability to assess their surrounding people and themselves decide to whether allow someone to get close to them or not. In an experiment, 6-to-10-month-old were exposed to a puppet show, wherein one was going all out to climb a hill, whilst two others popped up to either aid or hinder him. Thereupon allowed to tap the ones they cherished, infants were pretty much in favour of the supportive puppet over the hindrance one. Howbeit not much of innate ability, such a behaviour can be interpreted as the very step that builds up a moral foundation during childhood.
By Mush Boxey6 years ago in Longevity
The World once left behind
Given our own fates, it still feels as if we had lived some others’ lives. The only period does hardly breed such a feeling is our childhoods, since we could rarely ever jog through these memories. In a high attempt to address adults’ burning questions, this week’s articles have so far imposed “grown-up” views on toddlers.
By Mush Boxey6 years ago in Longevity
The Workings Of A Beautifully Chaotic Mind
I think about how people's minds work quite often. I believe it to be a true statement when I say, that until we know different we assume every other human functions the same as we do. I was in grade school when I was introduced into the idea that it is not always the case, sadly that lesson didn't really take hold though. The lesson was about color. I'm sure it's a common lesson. It introduced the idea that although we all agree blue is blue, we can never know how someone else sees blue. Later in life I discovered the harder lesson that men and women think differently. I have always been disappointed that men seem to have a one track mind, and if they are focused on something such as a video game they think of little else during that time. It took me a million times of asking men what they are thinking about before I ultimately gave up that they might be capable of having interesting thoughts. Well of course what is interesting is subjective. I think women are more interested in people and feelings, where men contimplate the burrito they had a week ago. I accepted that difference, but then assumed that all women had constant thoughts racing through their minds. They gave all the indications that it was so. Many women had the same fluid emotional changes that I felt. Moving from one emotion to another almost at random. And even with all these discoveries I found myself assuming everyone struggled with thoughts constantly as I did. These assumptions were further cemented in my mind because I never considered that I might be wrong or that something maybe wrong with my thought process. When I was much older though and many habits firmly in place for good or bad that I started to really learn things about myself. There is nothing that makes a stronger impression though then seeing someone else do the things you do. I eventually was faced with this and saw myself in the things I saw in him. We where like magnets in the way we where drawn to each other. His childhood is also riddeled with trauma and he suffered neglect from his mother. We both left home at a very early age and made it by just being survivors. To this day I consider him my brother and he is the only person I have kept in my life as a constant. We have both recognized the similarities in each other and found probably the truest version of love we can manage.
By Neecee B6 years ago in Longevity