Psychology

Psychologists believe that love is:
a) a biological phenomenon
b) a learned behavior
c) a motivational drive
d) a social phenomenon
e) a basic emotion
f) a) & d)
g) b) & d)



I must admit, first that the post is not about sex and lies, but about love and psychology. I simply liked the sound of the title & hoped it would make people curious and click to read this article. My second admission, will be no surprise to those of you following this series, since I already told you that I dislike multiple choice questions. I thought about adding another possible answer, but thought it would make the quiz too easy. An added option, h) a), b), c), d) & e), is the actual answer.

Psychologists understand & ...

Thought for the Day: It is Thursday & time for the answer this question:

True or False: The natural instinctive response to stress is either fight or flight?

The answer is actually true and false. This psychological trivia may have significant bearing on the importance of having women as well as men with strong tend or befriend tendencies in politics to weigh in on difficult issues like gun control & drunk driving. Read on to see why.

Until about 13 years ago, psychologists believed that fight or flight were the only instinctive natural responses to stress and serious danger. In the Psychology Review in 2000, Shelley Taylor, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues discovered ...

This paper looks at the newer tools of brain research and the biochemical view of neurotransmission that have increased our understanding of brain function as they apply to the study of psychoactive drugs. Specifically, this paper will focus on drugs that affect the serotonin transmitters and receptor cellular structures and are classified as hallucinogenic. There are many drugs in this category. We will focus on two commonly known compounds: psilocybin and LSD. Both are small molecules and both are psychoactive with similar cognitive affects. Psilocybin is chemically classified as a tryptamine, while LSD is a subset of the tryptamines classified as ergolines. Primarily, this paper will not focus on the active compounds themselves, but on the nature of the interaction in the central nervous system of these compounds and the transmitter sites, specifically in their effect on neurotransmission between neurons.

This is important to transpersonal psychology and ontology because psychoactive drugs affect the very nature of consciousness and ontology. ...

For more than a decade, there has been a sharp increase in the number of individuals in their twenties and thirties who are experiencing an existential crisis. They have reported feeling numb, like a bystander in their own life; questioning the deeper meaning of life; not being clear about their adult identity; and wanting a sense of purpose. It is more common for people to go through this during their midlife crisis. However, a midlife crisis is usually triggered by a sense of one’s own mortality.

In 2001, Alexandra Robbins and Abby Wilner coined this phenomenon as a quarterlife crisis. Their book was a tremendous tool for bringing this subject into public awareness. ...

Without a doubt, what we want most for ourselves as coaches and for those we serve, is that we generate momentum towards manifesting our highest purpose and desire.

Clients of mine, whose desire it is to have a thriving business, find it challenging to get out of their own way. Many of them are budding coaches who are passionate about their work, yet carry lifetimes of patterning that continually reminds them of how failure met them at every turn. Repeatedly, dreams of achievements are dashed, and they are left to their own undoing. Inevitably, the patterns of lifetimes ending in death leave us to remember our inadequacies to succeed in the face of death.

Exploring current circumstances, clients’ themes, and how they are tethered to lifelong patterns, ...

What is natural psychology?

Many psychologies currently exist: Freudian psychology, Jungian psychology, self-psychology, gestalt psychology, cognitive-behavioral psychology, existential psychology, positive psychology and many, many more.

Natural psychology is a new addition to these ranks. It looks at the human experience with a fresh eye, takes as its starting point a naturalistic worldview, and focuses on the nature of meaning. It is both empirical and prescriptive, examining “what meaning actually is” and offering a vision of how a person with meaning needs might want to live.

Rather than seeing meaning as “objective reality” or as something like a lost object needing to be found, natural psychology identifies ...

The two most powerful psychological forces in human history have been without doubt violence and greed. The amount and degree of atrocities that have been committed throughout ages in various countries of the world - many of them in the name of God - is truly unimaginable and indescribable. We can think here of the countless Christians, sacrificed in Roman arenas to provide a highly sought-after spectacle for masses, many hundreds of thousands of victims of the medieval Inquisition who were tortured, killed, and burned in the autos-da-fe, the mass slaughters on the sacrificial altars of the Aztecs, and the millions of soldiers and civilians killed in wars and revolutions of all times.

Genghis Khan's hordes sweeping through Asia killing, pillaging and burning villages, ...

Abstract

This article uses the ancient Sumerian myths of the goddess Inanna to illustrate a necessary intrapsychic path of development within women. In the story of Inanna’s descent into the realm of her sister, Ereshkigal, queen of the underworld, Inanna is killed. Although Inanna begins this journey with an intention of support as Ereshkigal is mourning the loss of her consort, the meeting of the sisters leads to Inanna’s demise. It is a story of power, destruction, and resurrection. The article illustrates the work that women need to do both within and amongst themselves. It defines the need for gender equality in order to create an archetypal transformation accompanying balanced social change. The conclusion is that as women learn to listen to and feel the natural world, they ...

The late Austrian psychiatrist/psychologist Alfred Adler (1870-1937) focused on relationships and social interest when developing his theory of psychological well-being.. In his native German language, the word “Gemeinschaftsgefuhl” referred to “community feeling.” Adler was one of the first psychologists to emphasize that greater meaning in life comes from social connection. But for the most part our psychology and related therapies have primarily focused on individual pain, confusion and, to a great extent, encouraged self-absorption more than social concerns. Of course, in ...