Long before the American Psychological Association came into existence, Psychologist R.D. Middlemist conducted a shocking study where in he hid a camera in a public restroom to study the behaviors of male subjects in relation to other male subjects while…
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Change is the one certainty in life, because no matter what else takes place, change is going to happen. This may be a small change, like altering the whole decor of the house. In the grander scheme of things, that…
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Carl Rogers was born January 8th 1902 in Oakpark, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He was one of the first humanistic theorists in Psychoanalysis, and after graduating with a Ph.D in clinical psychology from Columbia University in 1931, he became…
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Does Psychology Work? Everyone always wonders or tells tall tales about the effects of seeing a “therapist”, but what good are such visits actually doing the common man? Psychology, or the study of the human mind in the attempt to…
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Self-esteem is the measure of how much we value and appreciate ourselves. Unfortunately our past experiences can have a major impact on self-esteem. Thus we arrive at adulthood with issues which block us from achieving the success we desire. It…
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The world is an extremely competitive place. When others perceive that you have achieved the success that has eluded them, they will feel like they have been beaten in a race. Very few people like to lose or can even…
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HOW WORDS HURT Among the multitudes of things that we experience, early in life, is the pain that words spoken to us, or about us, can inflict upon us. Almost simultaneously, we learn that words spoken to other persons, or…
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Erik Erikson was a prominent psychoanalyst of the 1960’s. Erikson believed that our personality unfolds throughout our lifespan. He was considered a Freudian Psychologist and was trained by Freud’s daughter Anna. Unlike Freud, his approach seems to be well rooted…
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So you just accomplished your goal in life, or just made a significant contribution to something. You just got a job promotion, or you made the basketball team. Whatever it was, it was a huge success in your life, and…
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Title: Change Blindness in Genders Introduction: Change blindness is defined as “the phenomenon where a person viewing a visual scene apparently fails to detect large changes in the scene”, or more simply put the inability in visual perception to recognize…
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