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Detour-Spotting. Liste des phobies. Why We're Attracted To People Who Are Wrong For Us - mindbodygreen. I'm asked this question all the time: "Why am I attracted to people who are wrong for me?

Why We're Attracted To People Who Are Wrong For Us - mindbodygreen

" And the answer is quite simple, actually: Because your wounded self is doing the attracting. Now, I know the term "wounded self" can sound a little intense, so let me explain. Social Science Says Lasting Relationships Come Down To 2 Basic Traits. In her article, “Master of Love” author Emily Smith states that of all the couples that get married, only 3 in 10 remain in healthy, happy marriages, as psychologist Ty Tashiro points out in his book “The Science of Happily Ever After.”

Social Science Says Lasting Relationships Come Down To 2 Basic Traits

Every day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about 13,000 American couples will say “I do,” committing to a lifelong relationship that will be full of friendship, joy and love that will carry them forward to their final days on this earth. The Study Of Marriage. Psychology studies relevant to everyday life from PsyBlog.

It's Not About The Nail. Secrets of Body Language. The Lesson of the Monkeys. I was first told of this experiment* by a former work colleague, and later discovered this illustration of it.

The Lesson of the Monkeys

It’s both illuminating and disturbing. There is a clunky word that describes this phenomenon: filiopietism, or the reverence of forebears or tradition carried to excess. But I prefer another term for it: the tragic circle. I believe many of these tragic circles exist, mostly unseen, in across all cultures and societites, causing untold harm. Hedgehog's dilemma. Both Arthur Schopenhauer and Sigmund Freud have used this situation to describe what they feel is the state of individual in relation to others in society.

Hedgehog's dilemma

The hedgehog's dilemma suggests that despite goodwill, human intimacy cannot occur without substantial mutual harm, and what results is cautious behavior and weak relationships. With the hedgehog's dilemma, one is recommended to use moderation in affairs with others both because of self-interest, as well as out of consideration for others. The hedgehog's dilemma is used to explain introversion and isolationism. Schopenhauer[edit] Pharmakos. Realistic conflict theory. Conception[edit] History of the theory[edit] The theory was officially named by Donald Campbell, but has been articulated by others since the middle of the 20th century.[5][6] In the 1960s, this theory developed from Campbell's recognition of social psychologists tendency to reduce all human behavior to hedonistic goals.

Realistic conflict theory

He criticized psychologists like John Thibaut, Harold Kelley, and George Homans, who emphasized theories that place food, sex, and pain avoidance as central to all human processes. The Third Wave. Background to the Third Wave experiment[edit]

The Third Wave

Bystander effect. Social psychology research[edit] Variables affect bystanders[edit] Emergency versus non-emergency situations[edit]

Bystander effect

Money on the Mind. Milgram Experiment - Big History NL, threshold 6. The Stanford Prison Experiment. Change blindness. Cocktail party effect. The cocktail party effect is the phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much the same way that a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room.[1] This effect is what allows most people to "tune into" a single voice and "tune out" all others.

Cocktail party effect

It may also describe a similar phenomenon that occurs when one may immediately detect words of importance originating from unattended stimuli, for instance hearing one's name in another conversation.[2][3] Binaural processing[edit] The cocktail party effect works best as a binaural effect, which requires hearing with both ears. People with only one functioning ear seem much more distracted by interfering noise than people with two healthy ears.[4] Rosenhan experiment. Experiment to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis Rosenhan's study was done in eight parts.

Rosenhan experiment

The first part involved the use of healthy associates or "pseudopatients" (three women and five men, including Rosenhan himself) who briefly feigned auditory hallucinations in an attempt to gain admission to 12 psychiatric hospitals in five states in the United States. All were admitted and diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. After admission, the pseudopatients acted normally and told staff that they felt fine and had no longer experienced any additional hallucinations. David Reimer. David Peter Reimer (August 22, 1965 – May 5, 2004) was a Canadian man who was born biologically male.

David Reimer

However, he was sexually reassigned and raised as female after his penis was accidentally destroyed during circumcision.[1] Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful and as evidence that gender identity is primarily learned. Academic sexologist Milton Diamond later reported that Reimer failed to identify as female since the age of 9 to 11,[2] making the transition to living as a male at age 15.

Reimer later went public with his story to discourage similar medical practices. Halo effect. Edward Thorndike, the first researcher to study the halo effect History[edit] Asch conformity experiments. In psychology, the Asch conformity experiments or the Asch Paradigm were a series of laboratory experiments directed by Solomon Asch in the 1950s that demonstrated the degree to which an individual's own opinions are influenced by those of a majority group.[1][2][3][4] Social identity theory. A Lesson In Cognitive Dissonance. False-consensus effect. Grant Study. The secret of self-control. Two-factor models of personality. Beginnings[edit] The Roman physician Galen mapped the four temperaments (sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric and melancholic) to a matrix of hot/cold and dry/wet, taken from the four classical elements.[1] Two of these temperaments, sanguine and choleric, shared a common trait: quickness of response (corresponding to "heat"), while the melancholic and phlegmatic shared the opposite, a longer response (coldness).

The melancholic and choleric, however, shared a sustained response (dryness), and the sanguine and phlegmatic shared a short-lived response (wetness). Psychology of Belief. Defense Against the Psychopath (Full length Version)