A serial killer is often the guy next door you hardly even noticed. He is that neighbor you don’t get to know who seemed so “quiet, polite, keeps to himself, and minds his own business.” This is all too often…
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Austrian psychologist, researcher, zoologist, and pioneer ethnologist Konrad Lorenz transformed his lifelong fascination for animals into a Nobel Prize winning career and profoundly influence the field of animal psychology by demonstrating the strength of instinct in determining animal behavior. Born…
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There are many reasons for vivid dreams and no one knows all of them by a long shot. No one knows if an overactive imagination affects dreams nor even just an active imagination. Our dreams are affected by our daily…
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When considering whether morals and ethics are character led decisions or social behavior, it’s important to consider what morals and ethics are. It is also important to consider the concept of personal character , what social behavior is and whether…
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Carl Rogers was one of the prominent psychologist who practiced as a humanist psychologist. One of the core beliefs and practices is client-centered therapy. This approach is that the patient or client has all the tools to solve the problems….
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Psychological compensation is the term for an hypothesised form of defence mechanism found in human beings that can be manifested as a variety of strategies aimed at covering up deficiencies in one area of life by attempting to excel in…
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“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We must acknowledge the past because it has played…
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Conservation, according to Jean Piaget, is attained when a child is able to retain in his or her memory the characteristics of an object that has been changed aesthetically. A child who can perceive unchanged or invariant properties of an object…
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There are several forms of probability fallacy, with several names to identify the concept. Basically any fallacious reasoning that is related to probability can be called a probability fallacy. Some of the more well known names and types are: gambler’s…
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Constantly, psychology is revealing that people have habits that aren’t particularly beneficial in our everyday life. Although it’s difficult whether the cause is genetic or cultural, both, or something else, the planning fallacy is just another example of am inconvenient…
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