Body Image
October 24, 2014 Social Science
We all would love to be able to walk up to a mirror and like what we see looking back at us. But sometimes we don’t. In fact, more often than not we don’t like what we see at all…
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October 24, 2014 Social Science
We all would love to be able to walk up to a mirror and like what we see looking back at us. But sometimes we don’t. In fact, more often than not we don’t like what we see at all…
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October 24, 2014 Social Science
No, and the dirty little secret is that it’s not designed to succeed. In fact a recent study of prison population growth since 1960 revealed that if the growth rate curve continues on its current trajectory that the prison population…
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October 24, 2014 Social Science
An Introduction to Social Psychology Social psychology examines the nature of interactions that occur in groups and social structures. Gordon Allport was one of the pioneers in the field of social psychology. Allport proposed that social psychology wanted to understand…
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October 24, 2014 Social Science
Dreams. Some say they’re a window into our subconscious desires, other say they’re premonitions of our destiny, still others claim they’re nothing more than random images that our brain pieces together as best it can, and a few insist they’re…
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October 24, 2014 Social Science
Ancient Psychology Psychology began in experimental form perhaps as early as with the Egyptians. Historian Morton Hunt reports that one of the Pharaohs conducted a “psychological” experiment in the seventh century BC. The pharaoh believed that Egypt was the original…
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October 24, 2014 Social Science
Emotions are very powerful feelings that tell us subconsciously what we as humans should do in the various chapters of our lives. They are indicators of our feelings our moods and our temperaments. When people listen to emotions they can…
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October 24, 2014 Social Science
Who knows the feeling of dying? who can tell what would happen after death? No one can give an answer. Even those scientists who study the topic of humans’ death still can’t give a clear picture. Just this uncertainty of…
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October 24, 2014 Social Science
There are different parts of the brain people use the “right” and “left” hemispheres are too basic to categorize the most complex machine in existence. I am listening to music, and thinking about songs that I love and don’t like,…
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October 23, 2014 Social Science
Lucid dreaming is the experience of realizing that you are dreaming while in the dream. It is an experience that has been going on since ancient times and probably into prehistory. Some Buddhists practice lucid dreaming as a discipline. The…
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October 23, 2014 Social Science
“It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.”Ludwig von Mises Economics – to the great…
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