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How to Make Small Talk
10 Tips For Starting Conversations With People You Don’t Know. Making small talk doesn’t have to be painful, even if it’s with a boss you want to impress or blind date you want to see alot more of! Believe it or not, making small talk can be fun. Making small talk is also an art [...]
How Birth Order Affects Your Health, Relationships, and Career
Birth order affects your health, relationships, and job! Being the first-born, middle child, or youngest family member affects your health, personality, relationships, and career. Birth order research shows that certain personality traits are connected to birth order – and that can change your life. Families can really throw us into a tailspin. Check out this [...]
Emotion robs memory
Emotionally charged events often seem particularly memorable. But this vivid recall may come at a cost. A new study in England suggests that the same biological process that aids recall of emotional experiences also blocks memories of what happened just before those arousing occurrences took place. These memory effects appear to depend on a common [...]
Dream Content Analysis
Introduction This paper tries to show, in a friendly way, why any theorist doing systematic empirical work to test his or her theory would do well to use the Hall/Van de Castle system of content analysis, and to take established findings with this system seriously. This is because the system is proven when it comes [...]
James-Lange theory of emotion
The James-Lange theory refers to a hypothesis on the origin and nature of emotions developed independently by two 19th-century scholars, William James and Carl Lange. The theory states that within human beings, as a response to experiences in the world, the autonomic nervous system creates physiological events such as muscular tension, a rise in heart [...]
Tattoos Say About Who You Are
What Tattoos Reveal about Personality Psychiatrists from the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry studied 36 male inpatients, and found a link between tattoos and antisocial personality disorder. Further, these psychiatrists found that suicide attempts, substance abuse, and sexual abuse may be more common in forensic psychiatric inpatients with tattoos.
Cosmetic Surgery Addiction
Dr. Robert Guida, a Manhattan Facial Cosmetic Surgeon at the New York Center for Plastic Surgery, describes the symptoms and treatments for plastic surgery addiction. People who have a serious addiction to cosmetic surgery often have extremely poor body images, or Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Dr. Guida explains the warning signs, symptoms, and treatment for this [...]
Dream Theorists – Sigmund Freud
Considered the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionized the study of dreams with his work “The Interpretation Of Dreams”. Freud began to analyze dreams in order to understand aspects of personality as they relate to pathology. He believed that nothing we did occurred by chance; every action and thought is motivated by our unconscious [...]
Explanations for Forgetting
What are some of the major reasons why we forget information? One of today’s best known memory researchers, Elizabeth Loftus, has identified four major reasons why people forget: retrieval failure, interference, failure to store and motivated forgetting. 1. Retrieval Failure Have you ever felt like a piece of information has just vanished from memory? Or [...]