Millennials see catastrophic war as a real likelihood in their lifetime. In fact, most millennials surveyed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) believe it is more likely than not that a nuclear attack will occur in the next decade.
The first time I met what I have come to not-so-affectionately know as a “doomer dude” was in 2007. I was volunteering with a New York City-based lefty newspaper and still trying to fit my voice…
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, shares insights from his work as a renowned...
Forum: Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research is a multilingual online journal. Its main aim is to promote discussion and cooperation between qualitative researchers from different countries and disciplines.
The overkill backfire effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to reject arguments that they think are too complex, in favor of arguments that are easy for them to understand. Often, this means that past a certain point, presenting additional evidence in support of your argument can actually make people less likely to accept it.
In the following article, you will learn why people are susceptible to this effect, and how you can reduce the risk of them being influenced by it when you present an argument.
Often, when people encounter evidence that should cause them to doubt their beliefs, they reject this evidence, and strengthen their support for their original stance. This occurs due to a cognitive bias known as the backfire effect, and the following article will show you when and why this bias influences people, and how understanding it can benefit you.
We are a diverse group of social psychology researchers who share an intense curiosity about social life and want to make the world a more peaceful, inclusive, generous, and sustainable place.
The government is promoting cognitive behavioural therapy as a cost-effective, no-nonsense remedy for our psychological ills. It's the triumph of a market-driven view of the human psyche, says Darian Leader
Brain scientists have succeeded in fooling people into thinking they are inside the body of another person or a plastic dummy. The out-of-body experience - which is surprisingly easy to induce - will help researchers to understand how the human brain constructs a sense of physical self. The research may also lead to practical applications such as more intuitive remote control of robots, treatments for phantom limb pain in amputee patients and possible treatments for anorexia.
Women who have an elective legal abortion do not experience depression or long term psychological distress afterward, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland (Contraception 2008;78:436-50, (doi:10:1016/j.contraception.2008.07.005). They reviewed the best 21 studies published in the past 20 years, involving thousands of women.
Welcome to Jacinta Tan's research website. Jacinta works in the area of ‘empirical psychiatric ethics', researching some areas in the ethics of psychiatry using methods that examine the issue through research amongst people who work and live with the dilemmas. Jacinta Tan has a dual background of medicine as well as philosophy and psychology. She is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who is also an empirical medical ethics researcher. Her research interests are treatment decision-making in anorexia nervosa, the ethics and law of capacity, the development of autonomy, treatment decision-making models and the ethics of research. What is Medical Ethics? What is Psychiatric Ethics? What is Empirical Ethics Research?
"Sie streben nach Perfektion - und scheitern an der Realität: Die Diagnose Burnout trifft vor allem ehrgeizige Leistungsträger. Wenn sie ausfallen, kostet das die Wirtschaft Milliarden. Dabei können simple Verbesserungen im Job den Trend stoppen. [...] Denn für Burnout machen Experten schlechte Arbeitsbedingungen verantwortlich: Leistungsbereite Leute sehen sich mit knappen Ressourcen, unfähigen Vorgesetzten sowie wenig Wertschätzung und Lob konfrontiert. [...] Eine Studie mit Beschäftigten in der IT- und Medienbranche ergab, dass die Befragten weder lange Arbeitszeiten noch ständige Erreichbarkeit oder das parallele Arbeiten an mehreren Projekten automatisch als überfordernd sahen. Vielmehr monierten sie schlechte Organisation und Arbeitsbedingungen, die am Ende zermürbend sein können. Wenn dauerhaft eine Lücke zwischen eigenem Anspruch und Wirklichkeit klafft, kommt die Erschöpfung. Die Begeisterung ist weg, selbst ein hohes Gehalt kann dies nicht auffangen."
Intuition is not some magical and mysterious property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision-makers in our everyday life.
And it’s not gender, age, income, race or religion.
By political scientist Matthew MacWilliams January 17, 2016
"So, those who say a Trump presidency “can’t happen here” should check their conventional wisdom at the door. The candidate has confounded conventional expectations this primary season because those expectations are based on an oversimplified caricature of the electorate in general and his supporters in particular. Conditions are ripe for an authoritarian leader to emerge. Trump is seizing the opportunity. And the institutions—from the Republican Party to the press—that are supposed to guard against what James Madison called “the infection of violent passions” among the people have either been cowed by Trump’s bluster or are asleep on the job."
"Authoritarianism is not a new, untested concept in the American electorate.
Since the rise of Nazi Germany, it has been one of the most widely studied
ideas in social science. While its causes are still debated, the political
behavior of authoritarians is not. Authoritarians obey. They rally to and
follow strong leaders. And they respond aggressively to outsiders,
especially when they feel threatened. From pledging to "make America great
again" by building a wall on the border to promising to close mosques and
ban Muslims from visiting the United States, Trump is playing directly to
authoritarian inclinations."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533
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This site is dedicated to discussion, information, and communication regarding Heinz Kohut's psychoanalytic psychology of the self and contemporary developments.
This site provides an overview of some of the different aspects of survey and questionnaire design. A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of using various types of surveys and questions is included.
The Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) was established in 1965 at The University of Akron to promote research in the history of psychology by collecting, cataloguing, and preserving the historical record of psychology. Their website contains an online searchable database of its archives, which include manuscripts, instruments and apparatus, films, photographs, audio and video tapes, books, and tests
A free service to the community of scholarly historians and theoreticians of psychology with the goal of promoting the rapid dissemination of new work in the field
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