we all ask the same questions: “Why am I not feeling better?”“What can I do about it?” Inhabiting a physical body inevitably exposes us to pain associated with sickness, old age, and death. We also struggle
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an effective form of psychological treatment that is practiced by many thousands of therapists worldwide. CBT theory suggests that our thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and behavior are all connected, and thatwhat we think and do affects the way we feel. ...
We stress the relevance of recent advances in catastrophe theory for detecting developmental transitions and suggest that the concept of self-organization as formulated in irreversible thermodynamics provides a framework for explaining them. As yet, there is a lack of convincing evidence that transitions...
52:24 – What the clock and a universal time have done to human psychology.1:01:16 – What the collective brain is and why it is so prevalent throughout creative booms in history.1:04:55 – How the proliferation of information helps and hurts creativity, and why the internet hasn’t ...
In psychology, extinction is part of behaviorism. More specifically, psychologists use conditioning to change behavior to either be more frequent, less frequent or disappear. The two biggest contributors to conditioning are Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner....
“faith is horror” – Robert Smith #rings, Portland, OR, June 2014 At dusk, the devil arrives wearing black leather offering soft kisses & the psychology of fantasy. In between the call-and-response illegible seasons offered a subtext of urgency. Devouring antics and all. Can you feel th...
What’s the problem? Most current SLTE pays too little attention to the question “What are we doing?”, and the follow-up question “Is what we’re doing effective?”. The assumption that students will learn what they’re taught is left unchallenged, and those delivering SLTE concentrate...
Key: Freudianism derives from Sigmund Freud, anAustrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.Freudianism emphasizes the importance of unconscious forces in determining thebeliefs and actions of human beings. The theory also has great influence onliterature in the 20th century. ...
It’s called “operant conditioning” in psychology-speak or “behavioural design” in Silicon Valley. Behavioural design is now invisibly embedded in the daily lives of anyone who goes online. And as we spend more and more time online, designers learn more and more about how to make us do...
one acts is volitional and self-endorsed and “what” one pursues is more intrinsically oriented (e.g., personal growth, community contribution) one is more likely to experience overall wellness. In this chapter, we discuss how mindfulness, or open awareness of what is occurring in the moment...