The psychologist and recent Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman conducted a series of studies on the memory of painful events, such as colonoscopies. He discovered that when we think back on these events, we are influenced by the intensity of the endings, and so we have a more positive memory...
The viewer is, in a sense, implicated inThe Zone of Interest’s ‘turning away’, but the characters themselves are not. Herr and Frau Höss cannot be grasped via a logic of repression, or bad faith. They know very well what they are doing, but they presume that they can get away w...
In an episode of The Sopranos, tough guy Tony Soprano laments the lack of men like actor Gary Cooper, whom he describes as “the strong, silent type.” Cooper, in his multitude of roles portraying tough, no-nonsense old-west lawmen and gunslingers, symbolizes an outmoded though ...
Hasidism: Religion and Psychology essaysReligion and psychology, thought by many to be two totally separate areas of discipline and human fulfillment, can be found to have a meeting point in the ancient Hebrew Tales of the Hasidim for healing and helping
We feel for Tony Soprano when he struggles with the human condition as he sits across from his therapist, all the while knowing that in a previous episode we saw him carrying a severed head in a bowling ball bag after some serious “wet work.” Likewise, we (mostly) root for Olivia in...
named Curtis. Calinda’s symptoms are most typical of (A) conversion disorder. (B) dissociative identity disorder. (C) schizophrenia. (D) post-traumatic stress disorder. (E) bipolar disorder. 10. Dr. Melfi, Tony Soprano’s television therapist, seemed to think that Tony’s anxiety is due ...
of solving the item by the same amount that going X IQ points below 130 will decrease your probability of solving the item. For example, a person with an IQ of 120 has a 35% chance of solving this item, which means that a person with an IQ of 140 has a 65% chance of solving it...
be surprised that so many of the most popular and critically acclaimed television series have at their heart existential, "big" questions of what it means to be alive, how we make sense of our pasts, and how we should live. Think of Tony Soprano, Walter White, Don Draper, and Jon ...
In The Psychology of the Sopranos Dr. Gabbard draws on his vast professional experience (and his near-obsessive preoccupation with Tony's two "families") to delve into the psychology of the characters, the show's depiction of therapy, and how "The Sopranos" dramatically showcases the psycholog...
If you grew up in the ’90s, your parents’ design taste was probably a little much: There wasshabby chic aesthetic, with its lace and gingham and thrifty flea-market sensibility. Or theTuscan-villa, Old-World “luxury” stylewe saw modeled inTony and Carmela Soprano’s home. Then there ...