Social Science

Bipolar is more of a mood disorder  than a disease, and relates more to personality impairment than an all out mental illness.  Extremes of energy levels dictate whether the victim will be high in the clouds with euphoria or down…
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Ian Parker’s article titled Obedience, explores the several reactions to Stanley Milgram’s Obedience experiment. The paper produces a timeline of the results of Milgram’s findings i.e. upon the earliest of Milgram’s results; he was first turned down by two distinguished…
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Erich Fromm’s thesis in ‘Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem’ to be that man has continued to evolve by acts of disobedience. Fromm envelops the argument of disobedience, and whether or not obedience is virtuous and disobedience and a vice….
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Before any assumptions can be made about brain functionality, social progress, and  possible brain shrinking and lack of learning that result from some recent from some educational action, the phrase ‘dumbed- down education’ must be explained, or at lease explored….
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The ultimate solution to all problems lies within us. Way back in 1980, my first job was more for kicks than clean. I would come back to my lonely rented room each late evening with a headache and tiredness. The…
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Why do we worry? We worry because every day we are subjected to situations beyond our control. We have our cars serviced but it doesn’t guarantee that we won’t find ourselves on the side of the road waiting for a…
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If you’re asking yourself how to cope with criticism, you must be considering the criticism unpleasant. To cope with criticism, you just need to change the way you hear it. EXAMPLES If I told you that you were “too ethical,”…
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Praise and encouragement are essential ingredients in our lives, yet the majority of people are denied them because we are inclined to praise if our confidence is high and to be critical if our confidence is low. But praise is…
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A sense of belonging is the most crucial element in the confidence triangle. Try as we might, we cannot function without others as we are social beings. From the moment we are born and bonded with our parents, we begin…
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“If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?” Shantideva In evolutionary terms, the need for humans to experience the feeling of worry, has…
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