humanity
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Obedience as a Psychological Concept
Obedience is a type of social influence that entails carrying out an activity on the directions of a superior. It is distinct from compliance (which is adjusting your behavior at someone else's request) and conformity (which involves altering your behavior in order to go along with the rest of the group).
By Ikram Mustafa4 years ago in Psyche
Unstable Energy and Trust
We had the oddest interaction with a would-be filmmaker the other night. This “former addict” who claims to be six years clean, was, I am told, decidedly not clean when he approached a certain publicist just three years ago and told us on THIS call he’d just “had a Xanax” so he’s calm, anxiety in check. Um. That’s the drug he’s claiming to be clean from.
By Martha Madrigal4 years ago in Psyche
The Dark Side of Personality Classification Systems
People classification systems based on some set of pyschological traits are wildly popular with the general public and mainstream psychologists alike. The reasons for their popularity are, ironically enough, rooted in psychology and the desire or need in humans for systemization/classification as a way to understand the world we live in. This is all well known, heavily studied, and much commented upon and I have nothing of value to add to that discussion. However, in those discussions, one question that is almost never asked is what is the value of such classifications. Are they on balance a net negative or net positive for humanity? It seems obvious, that for some classifications, particularly those based on scientific principles that are useful for understanding the natural world, the desire to classify has been a huge net positive. To take just one example, without the phylogenetic classification system of Linnaeus, it would have been nearly impossible to have recognized the relationships that exist between all living beings on our planet. Darwin's theory of evolution may have never come to pass. However, the value of classifications of people based on psychological traits is much less clear. Certainly, it can be fun to determine what Myers-Briggs personality type you are, and even more fun to compare it with the types of your friends and family. And, perhaps there are some relationships that have been saved when the partners both read the five love languages and finally learned the secret ways they had never known before to make their lover happy. I must say I am more than a bit skeptical about that second one but I myself have had a lot of fun with Myers-Briggs and its many offshoots. Beyond just fun, some have claimed improved employee-employer relationships have resulted when all parties in a given business took the time to assess each others personality types and then attempted to adjust behaviors and expectations to accommodate. I did search the scientific literature for a published paper actually showing this, but was unsuccessful. Most likely this is because designing a set of controlled experiments to measure something as fuzzy as "improved employee-employer relationships" is about as easy as designing a set of experiments to show that ghosts can fall in love. Essentially, it is impossible though scads of papers are still published which purportedly measure this very thing.
By Everyday Junglist4 years ago in Psyche
Are our choices really ours?
In today's world, the truth is defined by google. Suppose you want to know which movie is trending or which is the best place to go on vacation. You will simply take out your phone and ask google about it. In today's world, we trust technology even more than ourselves. From which clothes to wear to which car you should buy, you take the help of technology. Our choices don't come from the blue they are the result of biochemical processes which happen in the brain these choices are highly volatile and are shaped by our surroundings like our society, friends, schooling. A person living in a tribal area will be more concerned about how to make it through the day rather than the looming danger of global warming so the decisions he will take will be centred around it, he will vote for a political party that will promise him employment rather than a political party that will reduce carbon emission.
By Aviraj Singh4 years ago in Psyche
Coronavirus: A real monster or hoax
With the onset of 21st century, the world fell prey to the clutches of many horrible diseases, but when it comes to pervasiveness and lethality, Covid19 tops the chart. With its prevalence on almost all the habitable continents, it has affected all sectors of human life. The most under pressure sector appears to be the medical field. Health professionals are more prone to the contagion as they directly deal with the patients who are suffering from Covid19 and serve as carriers. They also have to witness the horrendous scenes of people dying of this monster. It has, to the larger extent, changed the entire lifestyle of the people all over the world.
By Azhar Abbas4 years ago in Psyche
