Psychology
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Psicologia 1
Ego defense mechanisms: description - Cleavage: Compartmentalisation of feelings about self and other, so that integration is not possible. When individual faces contradictions in behavior, thinking or feeling, he treats disagreement with mild denial or indifference.
Defense Mechanisms of Ego
Psychology Today
Boys do better on tests of technical aptitude (for example, mechanical aptitude tests) than girls. The same is true for adults. A new study published in Perspectives on Psychological Science , a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, describes a theory explaining how the difference comes about: the root cause is that boys are just more interested in technical things, like taking apart a bike, than girls are. Aptitude tests are used to predict how well people will do in school and on jobs.
Technical aptitude: Do women score lower because they just aren't interested?
Cult Influence & Persuasion Tactics
Since cults make liberal use of many influence techniques, I find them fascinating and study them whenever the chance arises. The following page discusses cult influence tactics, but I think it's important to first define what I mean when I use the word "cult," and examine some important issues surrounding the topic before diving in. "What exactly is a cult, anyway?" A cult is a group of people who organize around a strong authority figure. Cults, like many other groups, attempt to expand their influence for the purposes of power or money. However, to achieve these ends, destructive cults employ a potent mixture of influence techniques and deception to attain psychological control over members and new recruits.
I was recently speaking with a teen aged girl who said: "I adore my father but I would never date anyone like him. He treats me like a princess, but I don't like the way he treats women." I was blown away by her ability to so succinctly articulate the complexity of her emotions about the two sides of her father; the man who loves her and the man who seemingly treats women as disposable, interchangeable, companions for the purposes of physical and social convenience.
Akoshia Yoba: She's Always Watching: The Impact of Fathers on Daughters' Self Esteem
Consciousness
Representation of consciousness from the seventeenth century. Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has been defined as: subjectivity , awareness , sentience , the ability to experience or to feel , wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood , and the executive control system of the mind. [ 3 ] Despite the difficulty in definition, many philosophers believe that there is a broadly shared underlying intuition about what consciousness is. [ 4 ] As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness : "Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives." [ 5 ] Philosophers since the time of Descartes and Locke have struggled to comprehend the nature of consciousness and pin down its essential properties.Stress e malattia - Correlazione tra stress e salute
STRESS E MALATTIA (vedi anche stress: spiegazione ) Lo stress è un potente agente patogeno, e quando viene a mancare la capacità di farvi fronte il rischio è quello di sviluppare qualche forma di sofferenza psicologica e fisica. Le strategie di reazione di un individuo allo stress vengono definite Coping ; con questo termine ci si riferisce alle strategie, più o meno funzionali, che ognuno di noi utilizza per far fronte alle situazioni stressanti.
Art by Laetitzia As we all know, communication is essential in society. Advancements in technology have transformed the way that we correspond with others in the modern world. We live in an era when launching apps, using an online QR code generator for immediate information, following turn-by-turn map navigation on our phones, and microblogging with tweets and instant photos have become the norm. Because of the constant buzz in our technological world, it's easy to forget how important communicating face-to-face is. When conversing old-school style, it's not only speech we verbalize that matters, but what our nonverbal gestures articulate as well. Body language is truly a language of its own.
What Does Your Body Language Say About You? How To Read Signs and Recognize Gestures - Jinxi Boo - Jinxi Boo
How confident should you be
Risk-averse people might say it pays to not be too confident. Others might feel being as realistic as possible makes sense. Being overconfident can clearly be dangerous because you can get in way over your head (I personally believe there is no such thing as a “pretty good” alligator wrestler.)
Pearltrees
The other day I was browsing through Barnes & Noble, and as I passed by the rows of books about love and sex I felt annoyed. Seeing those volumes brought to mind the biggest open secret in today's culture: Most relationship advice doesn't really help you and your partner improve -- or sustain -- your love life. Most people know this to be true. And ironically, the never-ending stream -- books, magazine articles, workshops and now, websites and e-zines -- confirms it, because if any of them really did help, there wouldn't be so many of them. In fact, substantial research confirms that these programs and advice aren't very effective at all.
Douglas LaBier: Why Relationship Advice Fails (And What to Do When It Does)
Interesting Info -> Lying Index -> How to Detect Lies Become a Human Lie Detector (Part 1) Warning: sometimes ignorance is bliss.
How to Detect Lies - body language, reactions, speech patterns
“ Per chi sa vedere l’atto più semplice, il più semplice gesto in certi casi esprime tutta una vita ”, affermava Max Pulver, con convinzione. Un tale approccio simbolico non si limita al puro interesse intellettuale, ma riveste, anche dal punto di vista tecnico, un’estrema importanza, troppo spesso trascurata, in quanto focalizza degli aspetti, quelli dei cosiddetti “ piccoli segni ”, solo apparentemente secondari nelle analisi di personalità, ma del tutto ingiustificabilmente sottovalutati nel corso delle perizie identificative. “ Dal punto di vista delle proiezioni – insegnava Roseline Crèpy – i numeri non sfuggono alla regola che vuole che l’Inconscio si esprima al meglio nelle aree secondarie, là dove la consapevolezza è meno vigile. Per esempio, quando si tratta di analizzare delle lettere anonime, il Grafologo ha talvolta la fortuna di poter sciogliere i suoi dubbi, di fronte a due scritti dissimili, grazie alle somiglianze dei numeri .”