Psychology

Mary is a high school student who seeks help from her school counselor for social issues. She feels like she has no friends and has been doing a lot of crying lately...

Personality development may be defined as the relatively changing patterns of feelings, behaviors, and personal thoughts that distinguish one person from the others.

Sometimes we take things for granted and forget that social security is the U.S. most successful program in the history of the nation, (Sanders 1); this is a statement...

The gender roles hypothesis argues that young men and young ladies figure out how to perform one's naturally doled out sex through specific practices and states of mind.

Getting to know one's own characteristics and personality is one hell of a task. At the beginning of it all, you keep asking yourself many questions including who you are, what you like to do and so on.

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.