psychology

Psychology (psykhe+logia) is a discipline dedicated to the study of mental functions and behavior. While psychology is inherently more relative than for example physics, it aims for the scientific study of the human mind and its various distinct aspects, such as behavior, cognition, emotion, personality and perception.

While its primary focus is on the more intangible human mind, psychology also studies the corresponding neurological and physiological processes, incorporating research from other fields of study, such as natural and social sciences. Psychology has also contributed to our understanding of diverse beliefs, aiding us in recognizing patterns and psychological archetypes in religious traditions.

As the human mind is an integral part of our daily life, psychology has gained much popular interest beyond the academic world. Psychology has been the subject of many popular books, and subsequently discussed all over the blogosphere.

People the world over have explored their mental resources, discussed possible ways to happiness, and reviewed diverse self-help publications. Psychology is also at the heart of helping children with bipolar disorder and dealing with anxiety disorder. It is also psychology by which we understand a criminal mind or the strange neighbor we have.

by Mr. Ananda Are you a writer, passionate about this or any other topic? Join Blogcritics!

Original Technorati articles tagged “psychology”

• in Entertainment
  Murder Investigation Team – Series Two
  The final four episodes of Britain’s acclaimed crime drama, MURDER INVESTIGATION TEAM, now on DVD.
  by missbobetier / on Mar 28, 2012
• in Entertainment
  Buffing Up Your Brain: This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman
  Are you willing to take a chance on a book titled THIS WILL MAKE YOU SMARTER?
  by missbobetier / on Mar 7, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  The Problem with Princesses: Princess Recovery by Jennifer L. Hartstein, PsyD
  If you grow up believing you’re the center of the universe, what happens when scientists determine you’re not?
  by missbobetier / on Jan 23, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “psychology”

 

• Why do we study Psychology

  
  — Authority:
  I often wonder what makes certain individuals opt to major in Psychology. What is with the field that intrigues a person enough to want to study it? And what are the benefits of the field that apparently deals with nothing more than the human mind? Well, there may be more to it than you think so! A scientific ...
  21 hours ago

• James Daviess top 10 psychiatry critiques

  
  — Authority:
  The author of Cracked selects a battery of books that challenge received wisdom about mental illness and how to treat it I wrote Cracked: Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm Than Good because of the huge gulf between what most people believe about psychiatric diagnoses and medications and what the evidence actually ...
  21 hours ago

• James Daviess top 10 psychiatry critiques

  
  — Authority:
  The author of Cracked selects a battery of books that challenge received wisdom about mental illness and how to treat it I wrote Cracked: Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm Than Good because of the huge gulf between what most people believe about psychiatric diagnoses and medications and what the evidence actually ...
  21 hours ago

• Happy Birthday, Aung San Suu Kyi: The Beloved Peace Icon on Freedom from Fear

  
  — Authority:
  “Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is [the] courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one’s actions.” Reconstructionist Aung San Suu Kyi , born on June 19, 1945, is one of modern history’s greatest champions of peace, following in the footsteps of ...
  22 hours ago

• Semantic Polarities and Psychopathologies in the Family – review

  
  — Authority:
  It may have an unlovely title, but Tim Parks promises this rigorous book will offer you a liberating way of thinking about every family, including your own It will be pointless to pretend this is an ordinary review. Despite its unlovely title and rigorous approach, Valeria Ugazios book has, in one form or another – ...
  22 hours ago

• Kierkegaard on Anxiety & Creativity

  
  — Authority:
  “Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self… — one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.” “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer,” Anaïs Nin famously wrote . But what, exactly, is anxiety, that pervasive affliction ...
  22 hours ago

• (First Things On the Square Blog) Elizabeth Scalia—Gay Marriage: Whose Yes, Whose No?

  
  — Authority:
  I recently received the following message from a stranger: “So basically, the ‘orthodox Catholic’ game you all play is just that . . . a game?” It was in reference to a Catholic man with whom I am friendly, and like very much. She had apparently read on social media that this man was planning to marry another ...
  23 hours ago

• (WSJ) Why Teenagers Need Peer Pressure

  
  — Authority:
  New studies on peer pressure suggest that teens—who often seem to follow each other like lemmings—may do so because their brains derive more pleasure from social acceptance than adult brains, and not because teens are less capable of making rational decisions. And scientists say facing the influence of friends ...
  1 day ago

• Authentic Food

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 108
  As always, Razib, at Gene Expression is among the first to spot a new cultural trend: authentic food .  The theory is that it is deeply aesthetically pleasing to eat what your distant ancestors ate and drank.  It offers an appeal not to physical health, in the way that organic or "health" foods do, but to inner ...
  1 day ago

• Witnessing Violence In Infancy Leads To Later Aggression In School

  
  — Authority:
  Aggression in school-age children may have its origins in children 3 years old and younger who witnessed violence between their mothers and partners, according to a new Case Western Reserve University study. "People may think children that young are passive and unaware, but they pay attention to whats happening around ...
  1 day ago

• Childrens toys only based on existing mega-franchises

  
  — Authority:
  Four years ago, I stopped into a Toys R Us and noticed how little innovation there has been in the basic categories of toys -- action figures, board games, video games, building sets, mini-vehicles, and so on. There doesnt seem to be a fundamentally new type of childrens toy since the explosion of action figures and ...
  1 day ago

• Psychology of Loss – The Magic Number Zero

  
  Sensibull — Authority: 107
  The magic number 0 The number zero is of great psychological significance to humans. Anything above a zero is likely to be treated by humans as winning, and anything below zero is treated as losing. The linguistic meaning of the words positive and negative are likely to strengthen this thought. Think about it. ...
  1 day ago

• You’re so vain: study links social media and narcissism

  
  — Authority:
  Facebook is a mirror and Twitter is a megaphone, according to a new University of Michigan study exploring how social media reflect and amplify the culture’s growing levels of narcissism. The study, published online in Computers in Human Behavior, was conducted by U-M researchers Elliot Panek, Yioryos Nardis and ...
  1 day ago

• (WSJ) Pieter Cohen and Nicolaus Rasmussen—A Nation of Kids on Speed

  
  — Authority:
  Walk into any American high school and nearly one in five boys in the hallways will have a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 11% of all American children ages 4 to 17—over six million—have ADHD, a 16% increase since 2007. When you ...
  1 day ago

• (NY Times Op-ed) Tom Freidman—Egypt’s Perilous Drift

  
  — Authority:
  Egypt needs a revolution. Wait, isn’t that what happened two years ago? Not really. It is now clear that what happened two years ago was more musical chairs than revolution. First the army, using the energy of the youth-led protesters in Tahrir Square, ousted Mubarak, and then the Muslim Brotherhood ousted the ...
  1 day ago

• Is Social Media Turning Us into Psychopaths? [INFOGRAPHIC]

  
  — Authority:
  The long-term impact of spending one’s life in the real world while constantly connected to the virtual one is not yet fully understood. While treatment for Internet addiction has been available since the mid-’90s, it’s worth noting that more people than ever before are exhibiting the ironically anti-social ...
  2 days ago

• New Software System Could Help With Social Interactions, Social Phobias

  
  — Authority:
  Social phobias affect about 15 million adults in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and surveys show that public speaking is high on the list of such phobias. For some people, these fears of social situations can be especially acute: For example, individuals with Aspergers ...
  2 days ago

• Life and Death According to Web Designers [Infographic]

  
  — Authority:
  Web designers are curious and creative. Many judgemental sideline fans usually think that sitting all day in front of the computer isn’t hard work. What they don’t understand is that while the body may note move too much, a web designer’s brain is moving faster than the speed of light. Thinking, planning, and ...
  2 days ago

• Nabokov on Inspiration and the Six Short Stories Everyone Should Read

  
  — Authority:
  “A prefatory glow, not unlike some benign variety of the aura before an epileptic attack, is something the artist learns to perceive very early in life.” “Show up, show up, show up,” Isabel Allende advised , “and after a while the muse shows up, too.” “Inspiration is for amateurs,” Chuck ...
  2 days ago

• Commerce Websites Use Social Media to Build Loyalty

  
  — Authority:
  Online marketplaces are using instant messaging to create the sense of personal and social relationships between buyers and sellers. Researchers use the term “swift guanxi” to describe the effort to facilitate loyalty, interactivity and repeat transactions. Guanxi is a Chinese concept “broadly defined as a ...
  2 days ago

Comments about psychology