Top 5 Psychology Gems (New series) 8/30/16
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Welcome to the second 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 : The Wisdom of Your Dreams
Psych 101: The Trap of Projection in Cyberspace
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 (8/30/16)
1. The mass psychology of 'friendly fascism'
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian psychoanalyst who began work under Freud, and introduced many of the personality-related concepts employed in modern psychology.
His early work was, and remains, well-respected. But his viewpoints and assertions became increasingly controversial and scientifically dubious as time went on. Consequently, Reich's work deteriorated. Defamation and censorship came to plague every aspect of his professional life. And some of his more pointed insights seem to have gotten lost or become confused in modern recollection because of it.
2. Self-Ownership: What Role Do Our Emotions Play?
"Your emotional response transfers power to your opponent." Scott Bolan
Emotional Ownership
I have been intrigued by the concept of self-ownership for a long time, and have read deeply into the subject from many authors. These writers tend to tackle the topic from a political philosophy perspective, as generally speaking, this is the obvious starting point. And in a sense it's logical end point. However, there are other angles one can take in the pursuit of furthering their understanding of the subject of self-ownership.
One of these is emotions. Specifically, what role do our emotions play when it comes to self-ownership? The quote above comes from martial artist Scott Bolan. However, his martial arts training incorporates more than just physical training. He embraces the need for mental and emotional strength, which I feel are at the core of any sense of true self-ownership.
3. The Trap of Mental Preparation. My first post!
We all do it: going over different versions of a future conversation, trying out sharp replies to that intimidating person, or getting a taste of what it would feel like to do that secret thing. Most of us have even experienced funerals of people we know - including several versions of our own - in the safety of our imagination (I can’t decide on the music in mine, any tips?).
We do this so that when one of these scenarios actually happens in real life, we are prepared for it. We won't feel the full dose of tension and negative emotions, because we have already felt some of it during our mental preparation. We won't be surprised and we'll know what to do and say.
Unfortunately, this is not true. Here's the thing about mentally preparing yourself: it feels like it's going somewhere, but it actually drags you in the opposite direction.
4. Stereotypes - weapons, tool of racism, propaganda and terrorism
The stereotypes in the perception of people from different countries have always existed and continue to exist. In many cases, they harm the mutual understanding and following them leads to sad consequences. Jack Nachbar and Kevin Lause ', the authors of the study "Popular Culture: An Introductory Text", pointed out that the stereotypes are an integral part of popular culture. They can be formed on the basis of age ( "Young people listen only rock 'n' roll"), sex ( "all men want from women only one"), race ( "the Japanese are indistinguishable from each other"), religion ( "Islam - the religion of terror "), profession (" all lawyers - rogues ") and nationality (" all Jews - greedy "). There are also stereotypes geographical (eg, "living in small towns safer than in metropolitan areas"), ware (for example, "German cars - the highest quality").
Stereotypes in most cases are neutral, but when they transfer from person to person a group of people (social, ethnic, religious, racial, etc.) are often acquired a negative connotation. It is based on stereotypes such phenomena as racism, sexism, Islamophobia and others.
5. What’s the Fear? How to Overcome It?
Fear is one of the strongest emotions. The child likes to jump up and down from somewhere. In fact, kids like it! The height is not important for them. Children haven’t got such emotion as fear because they have no experience in it. We learn to assess the degree of the risk with aging, and the fear becomes like a protective function of our organism. In this case, the fear is even useful as our intuition appears through it, and this is the best sense of self-preservation. The fear doesn’t come alone. It’s often linked with other feelings. The man can hardly see some secondary feelings as the emotion of fear is so strong.
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