How Habits are Formed by Our Mind

This article describes how our habits are formed in our brain through process of pattern recognition and association.

Just Doing My Job

The makers and lovers of lies are sometimes the exact same people. At other times, co-dependents.

Why Diet Companies Will Go Out of Business - And Why They Should

Very few people realize that nearly 100% of people who lose weight through a diet program put that weight back on even more quickly than before. Read on to discover why our health departments are now saying that even healthy diets should be avoided.

2007 Common Sense Psychology Thoughts

It is truly amazing the abundance of psychological profiling going on in America and academia. Even more amazing is the psychologists who tell us how to profile personalities and how to raise our children and explain to us how to love, conduct our relationships and raise our kids tend to have the most problematic children, druggie teens and dysfunctional families. So, who can you believe when it comes to psychology?

Depression, Holiday Blues, Seasonal Affective Disorder: The Other Side of Merry Christmas

Are you a victim of the holiday blues? The glare and dazzle of Christmas lights and the rush of activity between Thanksgiving and New Year can mask the other side of the holiday - depression and loneliness. While depression is a common illnesses for many adults, Christmas blues can be experienced by many who have heightened and unrealistic expectations about holiday events.

What Is A Personality Theory And Why Would I Want To Know

When I tell people I'm a personality theorist, usually their eyes go flat. After all, it's not like I'm telling them I'm a mailman or a plumber. So what is a personality theory, and why would you want to know? A personality theory is a map of generalizations. About what? You and me, basically. And about groups of you's and me's. And about us all as a group. Why would you want to know this stuff anyway? The answer may surprise you.

Knowledge Of Behavior

Interpersonal expectancy effects research focuses on how one individual's expectations influence another individual's behavior.

Development Of Psychology

Psychology as a science is developing with close connection with other sciences, but the greatest influence it suffers from is in sociological science.

When The Words You Use Hurt Someone Else-Part 3-Critical Humor

Critical humor is a form of verbal abuse. It hurts.

Sports, Sex and Physical Activity Themes for Enhancing Human Male Learning

It has been speculated postulated by a participants of our Online Think Tank that men often while in conversation or debate about things such as sports, sex or physical activity create brainwaves and light up similar areas of the brain during MRI brain scans as they do when competing in sports.

Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem

From the very childhood most parents teach their children to be obedient and stress that obedience is a virtue, and disobedience is a flaw. That is the opinion accepted in the society. There exist a lot of religions that teach us to be obedient.

Why do People Believe in Global Warming?

Have you ever asked yourself why everyone believes that global warming is real? A recent television survey said 90% of the people believe that global warming is real and yet just two years ago that percentage was under 30%; how can this be? Well it appears that the bombardment of mass media hysteria over the global warming issue has convinced people that it is now real. Does that mean it was false and now is real?

How Do Images Move In And Out of the Mind?

How do images move in and out of the mind? Moreover, is it logic which dictates how these images get stored, or is there some other, less obvious mechanism at work?

Humans Often Will Not Admit When they are Wrong; Especially the Educated Ones

Have you ever gotten into a debate with someone who was clearly incorrect in their thinking and yet they would not yield to all the good solid evidence before them? Sometimes hard headed individuals will stand against their belief systems or educational knowledge and refuse to consider or observe the actual. Why is this.