Top 5 Psychology Gems 9/6/16
I enjoy making My Psych 101: Posts which will still continue, on a daily bases.
Welcome to the forth post of Top 5 Psychology Gems, I will choose them only from the Top tier of psychology tag meaning the first tag must be psychology. I will post their feature image and quote first Paragraph. Keep an eye open for this so we can continue to read good quality content.
If you missed some of my Psychology series
Psych 101 check them out below.
Psych 101: Show Your Appreciation to Those Close to You – While You Still Can
Psych 101: The Pitfalls of Dating with a Big Age Difference
Psych 101: Moving Through – and Recovering from – Social Anxiety
Psych 101: Honoring Your Sexual Needs and Boundaries Within a Relationship
Psych 101: The Power of Trusting Yourself
Psych 101: How Psychology Shapes Our World
Psych 101:The Wisdom of Your Dreams
Psych 101: The Trap of Projection in Cyberspace
Psych 101: Recovering from the Myth of a Meaningless Universe
Psych 101: The Temptation to Project in Cyberspace
Psych 101: Crayon Theory- The Psychology of Color
Psych 101: How to Induce a Lucid Dream
Psych 101: Intermediate Classical Conditioning
Psych 101: Beginner Classical Conditioning
Here Are My Top 5 Psychology Gems (9/16/16)
1.Paradoxes of Logic / Парадоксы логики (featuring @smolalit as author)
Everybody knows the word “logic”. All of us (a dustman and a professor) use it in our everyday speech. Children know it and use it for making their speech more meaningful. We are all sure, that people understand us when we are speaking about “logical outcome of the case”, “logical suggestion” or even about “women’s logic”.
Всем нам знакомо слово «логика». Его используют в своей повседневной речи все – от дворника до профессора. Его знают дети и используют для придания своим словам значимости. Все мы уверены, что нас поймут, когда мы будем говорить о «логичном исходе дел», «логичном предположении» и даже о «женской логике».
2. The lies we tell ourselves - authority bias
It's Sunday morning and you've just woken up. After eating a delicious blini for breakfast you take a shower and get dressed. When you go to brush your teeth, however, you realize that you're out of toothpaste, so you head to the supermarket to replace it. There are dozens of options and you want to try something new, but you can't make up your mind. You notice one toothpaste has a picture of a dentist wearing a white coat, so you pick it up and buy it, rationalising that since their is a dentist on the box, it must be good. Congratulations! You've just fallen victim to the authority bias!
3. The Many Harms of Spanking in Less than 200 Words
I wish more parents knew the harm they inflict on their children when they spank
Spankings may damage the brain; they teach the child that violence is acceptable; they let the child know the parent will never negotiate; they teach the child fear the person that is supposed to love them; they instill the idea of duty to authority; they lead to resentment; they inspire the child to cut themselves later to release pressure; they entice the children to become cops or politicians so they can displace pent-up emotions onto others; they allow for later self-destruction through drugs; they lead to the child spanking their own children and perpetuating the cycle of child hatred.
4. You do not 'have' Depression or ADHD or PTSD or [insert mental 'disorder']
That’s right. You don’t 'have' any of these so-called ‘illnesses’ or ‘diseases’ because they don’t physically exist. I’ve quoted the Chair of the DSM-IV Task Force before, and I’m sure I’ll quote him again: ‘There are no objective tests in psychiatry’ (Frances, 2014, p. 229, emphasis added). There are no objective tests in psychiatry: not for schizophrenia; not for depression; not for ADHD; not for PTSD; and not for any other psychological ‘disorder’. Now, that does not mean that the things people experience or ways they behave which many laymen and psychiatrists describe as symptoms of discrete ‘disorders’, are not real. It does not mean that. But they are experiences/behaviors, not physical ailments.
5. Psychology: This Might Be The Reason Why You Like The Things You Do
Have you ever fallen into a pattern of behavior with a group of people? Maybe you are the one who tells funny stories all the time or you are the one who tells others about the latest gadgets. It may be because you like comedy or love tech and are happy to share your interests. But there is a chance that your behavior is the result of positive reactions from the previous times you started to do that behavior. If you share an app that no one heard of and everyone starts to use it, maybe it made you feel good. So you tell them about another one and still, another positive result. This carries over to the next week where you let everyone know about this cool new site called Steemit, which leads them to high five you after they make there first dollar. What begins to happen is you start to pay more attention to the tech world. You might go out of your way to look for new things to tell people about. And soon you become an expert who can spot the next thing from a mile away.
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