Social Science

Sex. It seems that a three letter word would be one easily identified. It would be something that explanations were simple and short. If we were to describe it, it would probably come out to sound like a very physical…
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Being Creative and Self-critical Healthy criticism can help refine our talents and creative projects in the pursuit of excellence. But when it is based on excessive perfectionism or an unrealistic self concept, criticism can be destructive and self-limiting, eroding our…
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In the words of Erich Fromm, an internationally renowned social psychologist, “By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He has become, one might say, estranged from himself. The alienated person…
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The Milgram experiment was a series of experiments conducted by the now famous psychologist Stanley Migram, who ingeniously measured the compliance of people to obey “an authority figure.” Essentially, the experiment had three people involved: the authority figure, the teacher,…
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Colors are a natural part of every single person’s life in one way or another. The sky is blue and the grass is green this is pretty much just common knowledge. Everything has some type of color whether it is…
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We have all probably met at least one person in our lives who complains about everything. They will complain about everything big and small, whether it is about their dog or how their back is aching, or how they hate…
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So you see a kid sitting in the corner at a party, and you wonder why he isn’t being social. Is he just being a jerk, or is he not having fun? The first thing you might think is that…
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TV shows and commercials have some negative effects on our lives. How about obesity and boredom? Bad TV shows coupled with too many commercials makes one want to hit the fridge again and again. Wait, what about the switch to digital TV? Isn’t it…
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In Freudian psychology, ego defense mechanisms are strategies through which the ego manages the inherent conflict between the id and superego. The id is impulsive, childish and pleasure seeking while the superego is normative and moralistic. Defense mechanisms are tactics/strategies…
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From time to time, we are anxious about our fate as it is connected with that of what is happening around us. We worry about every international or national event or crisis because we think that it will have a…
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