Monthly Archive: November 2013

DISC, means dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness. Those are the qualities of personality employers are looking for when hiring their workforce. It has nothing to do with the human skeletal system even tough there’s only one letter difference. In short it’s…
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Psychological conformity was first studied in 1932 by Jenness using a bottle of beans.  He asked subjects, individually, to estimate the number of beans that were in the jar, and then he brought all the individual subjects together in one…
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Is reality a social construct? A famous psychology study, Sherif’s autokinetic effect experiment, done in the mid-nineteen-thirties, seemed to say it can be. Conformity to the opinions of others guides personal judgments when information is scant. Muzafer Sharif was one…
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The Correspondent Inference Theory was proposed by Edward E. Jones and Keith Davis in 1965. Popular as “Ned” Jones, Edward E. Jones was an influential social psychologist. Keith Davis was a key member of Edward E. Jones’ team which developed the Correspondent Inference Theory. …
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Attribution is a concept which is widely used in social psychology. It refers to how people describe causes of behavior and events. Attribution Theory is defined as “the theory that argues people look for explanation of behavior, associating either dispositional (internal)…
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Lawrence Kohlberg is best known for his study of the stages of moral development and psychology. Kohlberg fashioned his views after Piaget’s stages of moral judgment but attempted to take the research a step further. He developed a set of…
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There are many different kinds of phobias and, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, 15 million Americans over the age of 18 suffer from a social anxiety. That number rises to 19.2 million for specific phobias, which is…
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Psychologists approach personality from a number of different perspectives, hence the many different theories of personality that are discussed in this article. Biological theorists such as Hans Eysenck suggested that genetics are responsible for personality. Psychologists and Personality Behavioural theorists…
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Spiders in dreams are a common occurrence. This may be because most of us have regular dealings with spiders in our waking life, or, because we have a basic survival instinct, gained from our distant ancestors who would have had…
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The best introduction to the Theory of Behaviourism would be to take a look at the work of B. F Skinner. Skinner held a strict behaviourist viewpoint and argued that if humans were to be changed, then the environment must…
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