Psychology

A mood disorder, also known as bipolar disorder, is a psychological disorder that is caused by the change of a persons mood. This change can be either an elevation or lowering.

People may have access to information sources that provide convenient descriptions of risky decisions. For some risky circumstances, the decisions they make may not have any summary description of the results.

Our consciousness and cultures are interwoven in innumerable ways. The stories, representations, propensities, doctrines, and criticism circles of our societies and subcultures structure our impression of the world.

Dual or compound relationships are hardly an unambiguous matter. There is an unending argument over the perils and advantages of dual relations. Certain dual bonds are inevitable and in such cases...

A healthy lifestyle is an essential factor in our lives as it makes us feel good. To lose a large amount of weight and be able to manage our body image and self-esteem ne...

Raising children successfully from the infancy stage to adulthood is one of the most treasured aspirations of parents. For the parents to achieve this objective, they often exercise control in the decisions...

In her article, Children Need to Play, Not Compete, Jessica Statsky gave her position on the issue that children should not be involved in competitive sporting activities by giving three reasons to defend her argument.

The underlying principle of Erikson's theory is tied to understanding the term, psychosocial. Psychosocial is a merger of two words that is psychological and social.

Ethnomethodology is a sociological perspective that focuses and analyses the way that we do things in our everyday lives. Our daily interactions are based on how we conve...

This model was pioneered by Pavlov. This model of behavior explains a behavior learning process where a subject learns to respond in a certain way motivated by a stimulus...

Elizabeth Marquardt in her article examines the emerging discussion on polyamory and polygamy. The debut of the series Big Love on HBO sets a platform for the discussion....

The media plays an important role in changing the perceptions that people have regarding certain aspects in the society. Some of these aspects include issues such as the creation of a given standard of beauty.

Wars in the twentieth century left a lot of tragedy and damage in their wake. Losses have been experienced both physically and psychologically. Studies have found that the effects of Holocaust trauma...

Cultural psychology is the study of behavioral and psychological tendencies and how they are rooted and alive in the culture. This implies that humans are formed by their culture and their culture is also formed by them.

The extrovert and introvert camps emerged when Carl Jung first classified people into different personalities. Being an introvert simply means that one likes to keep to him/herself so as to recharge oneself.

The paper is about a man called Mr. Katagiri who seems to be having a terrible nightmare on some earthquake that is being revealed to him by a frog. The earthquake which...

The act of speaking to oneself either silently or loudly is called self-talk. It is a behavior of personal inquiry into a situation either loudly by pronouncing words or within the mental framework by arguing with your inner conscience.

Deviance in human behavior is one of the major psychological and social concerns in behavioral studies. According to many psychologists, the small signs of deviant behaviors may be a tip of the iceberg.

Schools as per our understanding should be places where children go to learn the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. These days however, schools instead of being p...