Change and how people deal with it
By: Christyl Rivers
Life is ever-changing. Change is the only permanent thing we know. If you seek stability, security, and permanence, you are in line at the wrong universe. In this universe, change is what drives the cycles of your life from the day you are conceived, to...
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The psychology of body image
By: Jodi Showers
We all would love to be able to walk up to a mirror and like what we see looking back at us. But sometimes we don’t. In fact, more often than not we don’t like what we see at all as we tend...
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By: Paul Schingle
There are a very few things that are literally borne into the nature of human behavior (psychology). Fear is one of those very few things. It is an absolute base instinct. No child is born without it. Fear is a necessary evil for survival. If...
By: T.S. Garp
Our personality and our behavior are based on patterns from past experiences that have affected us on the emotional level. Our unique personalities can actually dictate how we live and think, and even how successful we might become in life, business, and interpersonal relationships. Everyone...
Philosophy, psychology and the adaptive biological process
By: SEG
Reality is a vast spectrum of perspectives that fan out through the various disciplines of science, philosophy and the Cognitive sciences; with perhaps the most easily understood schematic representations of awareness, adaptation and survival coming from psychology’s ‘Behaviorism’, a narrow yet remarkable perspective...
By: Omar Salvador
There were few occasions in the past when I heard some people used the terms neurosis and psychosis interchangeably. In fact only recently, a group of young men, sitting in a table next to ours (my wife, our two kids and I) in a restaurant...
By: Jacob Woods
The three factors contributing to this article on conformity are derived by The Handbook of Social Psychology Volumes 1-2. Those factors include situational factors, individual factors, and cultural factors. These factors are illustrated with examples below and explained in a more comprehensible shorthand than in...
Why some people are afraid of dying, and some aren't
By: John Traveler
Death is the inescapable consequence of mortal life. Fear is a primeval emotion, a defensive mechanism emanating from the primitive limbic system in the brain of all mammals and perhaps other animal forms as well. In humans, who over millions of years have evolved an...
Substance disorders: Inhalant disorders
By: MKOrchard
When you think of street drugs, inhalants are probably not the first thing that pops into your mind. Did you know, however, that they are the most popular of all illicit substances? They are the easiest and cheapest to buy and are free more often...
By: Annalyn Andriyenko
The jobs of laborers, something that the whole world has seen since the first light of earth. There have been slaves for so many centuries that have much vocation on great works of art such as the Pantheon and the great pyramids of Giza. This...
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