Top 10 Unethical Psychological Experiments - Top 10 Lists | Listverse Humans Psychology is a relatively new science which gained popularity in the early 20th century with Wilhelm Wundt. In the zeal to learn about the human thought process and behavior, many early psychiatrists went too far with their experimentations, leading to stringent ethics codes and standards. Though these are highly unethical experiments, it should be mentioned that they did pave the way to induct our current ethical standards of experiments, and that should be seen as a positive. The Monster Study The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa, in 1939 conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. The Aversion Project 1970s and 1980s South Africa’s apartheid army forced white lesbian and gay soldiers to undergo ‘sex-change’ operations in the 1970′s and the 1980′s, and submitted many to chemical castration, electric shock, and other unethical medical experiments. Dr. Stanford Prison Experiment Dr. Monkey Drug Trials Learned Helplessness
Seven Steps for Overcoming Ego’s Hold on You > Wayne W. Dyer Here are seven suggestions to help you transcend ingrained ideas of self-importance. All of these are designed to help prevent you from falsely identifying with the self-important ego. 1. The behavior of others isn’t a reason to be immobilized. 2. Ego loves to divide us up into winners and losers. You’re not your winnings or your victories. 3. Ego is the source of a lot of conflict and dissension because it pushes you in the direction of making other people wrong. When you let go of the need to be right, you’re able to strengthen your connection to the power of intention. True nobility isn’t about being better than someone else. 5. The mantra of ego is more. The universal Source is content with itself, constantly expanding and creating new life, never trying to hold on to its creations for its own selfish means. 6. This may be a difficult concept if you think you are your achievements. 7. Your reputation is not located in you.
Reconstructing the Past: How Recalling Memories Alters Them The first experiment to show the enhancing and distorting effect of recall. Recently the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks recalled a vivid childhood memory, recounted in his autobiography, Uncle Tungsten During WWII he lived in London during the Blitz, and on one occasion: “…an incendiary bomb, a thermite bomb, fell behind our house and burned with a terrible, white-hot heat. Except when his autobiography came out, one of his older brothers told him he’d misremembered the event. The ‘false’ memory, it turned out, was implanted by a letter. Turning the memory over in his mind, Sacks writes that he still cannot see how the memory of the bomb exploding can be false. This sort of experience is probably much more common than we might like to imagine. That these sorts of distortions to memory happen is unquestioned, what fascinates is how it comes about. A study published recently sheds some light on this process and provides a model for how memories like Sack’s become distorted.
International Journal of Psychological Studies Published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education, International Journal of Psychological Studies (IJPS) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal with both print and online versions. IJPS encourages high-quality submissions. In order to carry out our non-discrimination principles, we use a double-blind system of peer review. General psychology Cognitive psychology Neuropsychology Developmental psychology Educational psychology Social psychology Frequency: Quarterly Statistics 2014 Q1: Articles Received: 27; Accepted: 9; Rejected: 10; Published: 9; Retracted: 0 2013: Articles Received: 91; Accepted: 48; Rejected: 43; Published: 52; Retracted: 0 2013 Q4: Articles Received: 19; Accepted: 11; Rejected: 12; Published: 12; Retracted: 0 2013 Q3: Articles Received: 22; Accepted: 14; Rejected: 9; Published: 15; Retracted: 0 2013 Q2: Articles Received: 24; Accepted: 13; Rejected: 8; Published: 11; Retracted: 0 2012 Q4: Articles Received: 18; Accepted: 10; Rejected: 7
Environmental Deficit Disorder: The Biology of (Not) Being Outdoors : Tomorrow's Table British kids can more easily identify Japanese cars than native plants and animals, says moderator, Robert Draper here at the Aspen Environment Forum, sponsored by the National Geographic and the Aspen Institute. American children not readily exposed to nature are more prone to depression, obesity and attention deficit disorder. This is a global phenomenon. What else happens when there is a growing disconnect between a modern society and the biosphere? Can we draw a link with this disconnect and the loss of biodiversity at an unprecedented rate? Panelists: Sally Bingham, Episcopal priest and an environmental activist Audrey and Frank Peterman, authors of “Legacy on the Land” In the days of Thoreau, the love of God was inseparable from the love of Nature. When Bingham began speaking of our responsibility of taking care of our environment and recognizing that climate change hits the poor the hardest, she was called a communist by many in her congregation in San Francisco.
A Simple Strategy to Help You Stop Procrastinating You don’t have to feel guilty when you put off doing the ton of items that you’d like to accomplish and can’t seem to get done. It may be that you have changed your priorities and are focusing on more important tasks, neglecting items that don’t hold an important value in the bigger scheme of things. You may also be overwhelmed at the enormousness of the task and give up, rather than breaking it into smaller time segments to get it done. Either way, you will free up much needed mental space once you identify which category your “to-do” list item should fall into. You will also find that you are free from excess mental clutter and open up more time and energy to accomplish the things that you truly value. Sometimes becoming more organized can do wonders for procrastination. Do it: Put it on your calendar and block out time to accomplish the task. It may not be rocket science, but this simple strategy may help you in your battle against procrastination.
American Psychological Association Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief Bad language could be good for you, a new study shows. For the first time, psychologists have found that swearing may serve an important function in relieving pain. The study, published today in the journal NeuroReport, measured how long college students could keep their hands immersed in cold water. During the chilly exercise, they could repeat an expletive of their choice or chant a neutral word. When swearing, the 67 student volunteers reported less pain and on average endured about 40 seconds longer. Although cursing is notoriously decried in the public debate, researchers are now beginning to question the idea that the phenomenon is all bad. How swearing achieves its physical effects is unclear, but the researchers speculate that brain circuitry linked to emotion is involved. One such structure is the amygdala, an almond-shaped group of neurons that can trigger a fight-or-flight response in which our heart rate climbs and we become less sensitive to pain.
Mind Hacks Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind - Top 10 Lists | Listverse Humans The mind is a wonderful thing – there is so much about it which remains a mystery to this day. Science is able to describe strange phenomena, but can not account for their origins. While most of us are familiar with one or two on this list, many others are mostly unknown outside of the psychological realm. We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time – of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances – of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it! Déjà vu is the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously – you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. Déjà vécu (pronounced vay-koo) is what most people are experiencing when they think they are experiencing deja vu. Jamie Frater Jamie is the founder of Listverse.
The Situationist Psychological ("personality") Types Psychological ("personality") Types According to Jung's theory of Psychological Types we are all different in fundamental ways. One's ability to process different information is limited by their particular type. These types are sixteen. People can be either Extroverts or Introverts, depending on the direction of their activity ; Thinking, Feeling, Sensing, Intuitive, according to their own information pathways; Judging or Perceiving, depending on the method in which they process received information. Extroverts vs. Extroverts are directed towards the objective world whereas Introverts are directed towards the subjective world. Sensing vs. Sensing is an ability to deal with information on the basis of its physical qualities and its affection by other information. Thinking vs. Thinking is an ability to deal with information on the basis of its structure and its function. Perceiving vs. Perceiving types are motivated into activity by the changes in a situation. ENTp , ISFp , ESFj , INTj , ENFj
Technology "The lights have dimmed in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, and journo-bloggers have published closing one-liners on their live blogs, uploading final pics of the new longer, skinnier and more powerful iPhone 5," says a journo-blogger at Technorati. "It is time for Apple's annual post-product and OS release ritual, as fan boys (and girls) dance proudly around the fires newly stoked by Apple CEO Tim Cook and crew, while head-shaking iHaters stand just outside the warm, orange-y ring of light, waiting their turn to jeer and mock." Hmm - somebody just got back from Burning Man. Yes, the desperately awaited, completely unnecessary and sure-to-sell-loads iPhone 5 was introduced this Wednesday. The question now: what's so 5 about the iPhone 5? Continue Reading Story »