Social Science

There are many factors that come into play when it comes to violent behaviour. Whether or not violent behaviour is inherent within us when we are born, or whether it is learned as we are raised, is something that still…
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There’s an old saying that goes, “Happiness is a state of mind” and I truly believe it. Happiness is a choice we make regardless of our circumstances. There are plenty of people in the world experiencing hard times or failures…
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Confidence is trait that can be faked until the mind has been tricked into believing it to be true. How do you fake self-confidence? The answers are astonishingly simple and will change your life once incorporated all together. Want an…
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People who are always negative can be unpleasant to spend time with and, if possible, the best advice is to try and avoid them. You know the type-they’ll take a positive and give it a negative spin. You may walk…
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For a number of years I thought about why I immediately disliked someone without ever getting to know them. Quite often I’d remark that I can’t stand this person or that person for no reason other than that it was…
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Everyone has a vested interest in and ever increasing desire to improve our ability to accurately recognize increased risk of violent behavior in any given individual. While there is a tendency to rely on putative experts to perform such assessments…
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LOVE is where you love someone who is a part of your life. This may be a parent, child, sister or uncle. You may hate their guts and not like them at all. You may have no respect for them….
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Two friends may chide one another on a regular basis; they might “give each other a hard time.” This is a fairly routine and normal set of circumstances. When the chatter gets to the point of actually being abusive, it…
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Life itself is enough to fear. Fear of loosing everything we have worked hard for, fear of loosing a loved one to death or divorce, or through choices that may take those away from us. Death is truly unknown and…
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When it comes to Freud, we have an iconoclast shrouded in tantalizing rumors that are met with intrigue by some, and outrage by others. In the realm of psychology there is no doubt that he is the “father” of psychotherapy…
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