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Capitalism and Sociopathy: A Relationship Gone Sour

August 5, 2013by Miguel Maldonado 1 Comment

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 […]

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Social Psychology

Jihadism, Culture Globalization, and Cognitive Distortions

July 22, 2013by Miguel Maldonado Leave a comment

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 […]

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Cognitive Psychology

Language Creates Consciousness: Behaviorism and the Origin of Consciousness (A short account)

June 12, 2013by Miguel Maldonado 2 Comments

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 […]

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Behaviorism/Applied Behavior Analysis

The Death of Psychiatry

April 11, 2013by Miguel Maldonado 9 Comments

Yes, I have said it; the cracks within the armor of psychiatry are starting to make themselves more evident as time moves forward. Not only because the heart and soul […]

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Psychiatry

Opposites Attract and Personality Disorders

March 21, 2013by Miguel Maldonado 5 Comments

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 […]

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General Psychology

Erik Erikson & the Mid-life Crisis

March 7, 2013by Miguel Maldonado 6 Comments

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 […]

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Developmental Psychology

Police Brutality and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Link?

February 23, 2013by Miguel Maldonado 63 Comments

The first idea that comes into one’s mind when you think of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) will most likely be the picture of a veteran coming back from a […]

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Psychiatry

Apophenia, Patternicity, Conditioned Seeing, And The Meaningless: The Science of Being Fooled

February 11, 2013by Miguel Maldonado 8 Comments

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 […]

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Cognitive Psychology

Conservatism and The Need For Cognitive Closure

February 3, 2013by Miguel Maldonado 5 Comments

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 […]

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Political Psychology

B.F. Skinner on Desire

January 28, 2013by Miguel Maldonado 2 Comments

Desires are functions that we have, supposedly, within, and as a part of, the intentional force we harbor and that we also share with other living beings, be it via an inner psychic and/or physiological […]

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