Parrots used to be thought of simply as good mimics. Rather than being considered amazingly intelligent, their ability to amuse, via copying human speech and sounds, led to them being associated with entertainment rather than their cognitive and communication abilities…
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Are you motivated from within, or from your surroundings? Are you selfish or selfless? Independent or dependent? Egotistical or altruistic? As humans, we’re all motivated. We all have ambitions, interests. We all drive towards a goal or two. But what…
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Do you have any friends or even a family member who has a panic disorder? This condition can cause serious difficulties in your life or for your loved ones. Also known as panic attacks, a panic disorder is a type…
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Daniel Goleman says that “Academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life” and goes on to say “…people with with high IQs can be stunningly poor pilots of their private lives.” In Chapter 3 of his popular book on the subject,…
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Psychologists have many ways of studying behavior. The many branches of psychology, and the many approaches within each branch, have given birth to multiple approaches. Three ways of studying human behavior that an everyday person may encounter are longitudinal, cross-sectional,…
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The Fall of Dorian Gray:The Choices, Characters and Circumstances that Led to His Ruin Some readers of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray may be able pinpoint the exact moment that signaled Dorian’s inevitable demise. However, it can be…
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Certain sounds can cause an immediate reaction in your memory. What causes this initial reaction and why does the mind seem to play tricks on us or at least makes us wonder if that memory ever took place or we…
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Psychology aspires to be a serious science, and the majority of academic and research psychologists use scientific methods to study human behaviour. However, psychology doesn’t have one, dominant paradigm in the way hard sciences like physics or physiology do, and…
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I thought I’d write this article because it’s the time of the year when we all come together and do three things – give, receive and over-indulge. It brings a nice philosophical face to why I think really, even though…
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Parents teach by what they do. When a parent leaves a child unintended, they are teaching that child that attention to that child is “optional.” When a child is asking for attention in a grocery cart, and the mum or…
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