Social Science

Being heard or validated is very important to a person. Why? It makes them feel understood. Being understood helps a person feel they can relate to others as well. There is power in having someone agree. From time to time,…
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Pornography: while many years ago, in order to watch porn one would have to put a bit of dignity aside, gain some courage and enter a porn movie rental shop, nowadays, pornography is easily accessible with the click of a…
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Ancient civilizations, the Chinese, the Egyptians, and the East Indians used colours to promote health and well-being. Researchers are currently engaged in rediscovering colour therapy to relieve ailments such as stress, exhaustion, sleep and eating disorders and hormonal imbalances. Here…
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Transactional Analysis, developed by Eric Berne, is a commonly used approach to therapy, which has been around since the 1950’s, and is still developing today. TA is based upon the idea that our psyche functions from three basic states, which…
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Criticism: Friend or Foe? “Don’t pay attention to what other people say. Most of the time they’re just jealous anyway.” I once heard someone say. At the time it sounded good to me – any negative opinion that someone may…
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Carl Jung – the Grand Old Man of Psychology. Born near Lake Constance in 1875, Carl Jung became, along with Freud and Adler, one of the three founding fathers of modern psychological thought. As a child, Jung had strange and…
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Happiness, that fleeting emotion we all long to feel on a daily basis. It can be described as feeling joy, satisfaction, contentment and pleasure. We as people decide what makes us happy. It is strictly our own choice, and it…
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You have the right to feel angry. You have the right to get angry with people who hurt you. Having the right to get angry does not mean that you can kill the people who hurt you. Anger is a…
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One way of determining your I.Q. would be testing what you do and do not believe. Take for example, the benchmarks being given to the state of Oklahoma. Nothing is important except test scores in core subjects. Facts and figures…
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Perhaps it is time to focus on what the emo subculture and style is trying to achieve in our mission to understand emo’ instead of wrangling over aesthetic trademarks. Emo subculture has been linked in the past year by the…
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