Ever wonder how different sentences with similar meaning spark different response? * Go take that pencil for me! * Would you try to get the pencil for me? * If you have time later, please take the pencil for me….
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Inhalant disorders are a strange social phenomena that is prevalent in Mexico and the United States. It is estimated that 17 percent of American adolescents have abused inhalants and hospital admissions for inhalant disorders is common in Mexico among adults…
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian physiologist who lived from September 14, 1849 until February 27, 1936. He received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1904 and is famous for his observations of conditioned behaviour. He is largely remembered for…
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It’s a fact of life that we all die. No one is exempt from death. Our bodies wear out and perish just as all living things do making way for new life. Probably the biggest differences in the way we…
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Why it is never too late to conquer fear It is never too late to conquer fear for several reasons. Depending on the object one fears and the intensity of the anxiety one feels it may be necessary to overcome…
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The study of the similarities, commonalities, and differences in behavior across various species of animals is known as comparative psychology. This field of study has given rise to revelatory insights into human behavior and development. Studying animal behavior and applying…
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Erik Homberger Erikson (1902-1994) hypothesized that one’s personality develops in over time in a series of stages; his theory considers the effect of social interaction and social experiences over one’s lifetime, whereas Freud believed that the personality is only significantly developed…
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Sergei Moscovici is a French Romanian-born social psychologist. He conducted a famous experiment in minority influence, the results of which are published in a book. These results are analyzed and dissected in several other research papers and books. In his…
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The dictionary describes self-esteem as one’s good opinion of oneself or self-respect. Self-esteem is a basic human need and is indispensable to normal and healthy self-development and survival in this rat race. It is something experienced as a part, or…
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Genetic and Environmental Influence on Personality After a semester of Personality theories – Freud and Jung, Rogers, Bandura and so on, students often ask, once again,” isn’t there one theory we can trust and use with confidence? Can’t we…
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