the benefits of solitude (vs.loneliness) are just beginning to be appreciated in psychology. However, “despite the purported benefits of solitude, humans can find it repellent.” One prior set of investigators even found that most men “preferred mild electrocutions to sitting...
When I first began looking into master’s and PhD programs early in my career, I wasn’t aware that many universities “fully fund” their doctoral students. “Full funding” is a funding package from the university, usually offered at acceptance, that includes full tuition remission a...
BPD was strongly related to anger rumination, but so were ASPD and HPD. This overlap argues in favor of critics who maintain that the categorical personality disorder approach is misguided. In terms of the Cluster B constellation
3. The psychology of being a research student: During the intervening years their (research students) enthusiasm has been dampened by the demands of having to concentrate on a specific topic and conduct routine and repetitive tasks in an atmosphere where nobody seems either to understand or to ...
Instead of there being a cliff over which your creativity tumbles, you lift off from the ground at the point where things start to get hard. And so, we have this classic problem in human psychology which is misinterpreting the signals around us to suggest that we should either quit or ...
Southern Europe. Andrea is also an adjunct professor at IMT—Institute for Advanced Studies—in Lucca (Italy), where he holds a PhD level course on advanced problem-solving techniques. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and prior to joining McKinsey, he worked for Hewlett Packard Italy...
If you have taken courses in child psychology or development, that can assist you in working with children of any age. If you have an academic minor that can be taught in the public school system, you might be able to fall back on that as your field of instruction. Take additional ...
To specialize in child psychology, you need a master's or doctorate degree. Earning a master's degree allows you to work as a mental health counsellor, but you cannot conduct psychological testing. You must earn a PhD in order to work as a licenced psychologist.Master's degrees involve ...
In a recent paper, John Paley rejects the central arguments and asserts his conviction that a model for 'spiritual care' cannot be derived from the insights of evolutionary psychology. In this article, the author employs a modified form of Fichtean dialectic to examine the contrasting positions ...
What makes some people so generous that they’d undergo surgery to donate an organ to a complete stranger? These are the kinds of questions that Abigail Marsh, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown University, studies. Chris and Abigail discuss the brain differences between ...