Capitalism and Sociopathy: A Relationship Gone Sour
Capitalism is both primarily economic theory but can also function as a social theory that effects its inhabitants in many facets of their lives. Much of the way it acheives […]
Tag Archives: behaviorism
Jihadism, Culture Globalization, and Cognitive Distortions
I have always believed that certain ideologies attract certain individuals. I am also aware that particular individual’s actions are in no sense representative of the whole group to which that individual […]
Language Creates Consciousness: Behaviorism and the Origin of Consciousness (A short account)
The idea of consciousness has permeated our discussions all throughout subjects like psychology and philosophy. The phenomenon has been known by many different names; awareness, self-reflectiveness, self-knowledge, cognizance, internal supervision […]
Opposites Attract and Personality Disorders
The APA (2004) released an article with the sub-title that read: ‘Psychologists find that opposites attract in couples with personality disorders(PD)’. Many people are aware of the idea that couples who […]
Erik Erikson & the Mid-life Crisis
For some time now, I have always thought of Erik Erickson’s psychosocial stages model to be a model that offers insight into issues specific to development. Many of our sub-disciplines […]
Apophenia, Patternicity, Conditioned Seeing, And The Meaningless: The Science of Being Fooled
I recently read a blog at Psychology Today titled 11-11-11, Apophenia, and the Meaning of Life(2011) by Dr. John W. Hoopes, a associate professor of the anthropology department at the University […]
Conservatism and The Need For Cognitive Closure
Politics and psychology has more of a relationship than you think. In a lot of instances, individuals have this perception that political attitudes are the result of a vigorous search […]
