Social Science

Today’s modern society, and the field of psychology, have come to one general consensus about Sigmund Freud and his theories: While he is acknowledged to be the father of psychology, his theories are now not much more than pop culture…
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It seems to me that normal range IQ persons have difficulty understanding anything that is not in a commercial or drilled into their subconscious minds via television, from the time they are infants. A genius is not a savant. A…
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Where Are My Keys Have you found your-self forgetting small silly stuff, like where you put your car keys or where the TV remote control is?Maybe, its more serious than that. Maybe, you’ve forgotten to turn off the stove or…
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Each human being’s reality is formed by their perception which, in turn, is dictated by their culture, race, religion and gender. Whatever we perceive is exactly what we ‘see’ which is likely to be different from the next person. Imagine…
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By whose standards do people fail in life? By society’s standards? By group or class standards? By individual standards? We can take a look at three kinds of people with three different ways of looking at failure in life. To…
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Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist and philosopher who greatly shaped and shook the foundations of modern psychology. Piaget was famous for the psychological treaties he developed such as his studies in epistemological view known as genetic epistemology and his…
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FantasiesMany of our fears are fed by our exaggerated notions of certain experiences. When we imagine the worst possible outcome, we scare ourselves into believing the possibility of that outcome actually occurring. To avoid this destructive behaviour, we need to…
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Portrait of a Killer: Nature vs. Nurture and its Relation to Homicide Offenders On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire on Columbine High School. The pair murdered twelve students and one teacher before killing themselves (Brooks)….
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I don’t know of any studies on the subject, but anecdotal evidence suggests this: It doesn’t work, especially in the long run. Even valid methods for improving communication, mutual understanding and collaborative problem-solving can be much harder for psychologists to…
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DOES SEXUALITY AFFECT CREATIVITY? I take the word “sex” to connote “life force.” In other words, our sexual being encompasses considerably more than attraction to another, intimacy with that other, and the sex act. Instead I view the Sexual Self…
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