Life moves faster and faster as we get older. It seems like our childhood stretches on forever, but suddenly, you’re in your teens and then your adult years. Wasn’t it just yesterday that your biggest worries were who was going to be your best friend at school, and taxes weren’t something you ever thought about? Life moves fast, but there is a way to slow it down: living in the moment....
On this page you’ll learn: What is the Door in the Face Technique?Examples of the Door In the Face TechniqueOther Compliance Strategies What is the Door in the Face Technique? Examples of the Door In the Face Technique Other Compliance Strategies The door-in-the-face technique is a compliance strategy in which a person makes a large request, knowing they will get the “door slammed in their face.” This is meant to make the next request - the actual request - seem small and reasonable in comparison....
Do you love your job? If you experience social anxiety, you may not jump to say yes. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a persistent fear of being judged or watched that negatively affects most interpersonal interactions. This can make the workday extremely difficult, especially if you are in a customer-facing position. Fortunately, there are jobs for people with social anxiety who want minimal interactions with coworkers or customers. If you feel the need to minimize the number of people that you speak with each day, consider the following careers....
How do you know what restaurants are good and which are bad? When you sit down at those restaurants, how do you know what customs are appropriate and what behaviors are not? How do you know whether the people in that restaurant like you or not? The answer to all of these questions, for many people, is the same. We look at other people to determine the decisions that we make and how we view ourselves....
The human body and the human mind are pretty fascinating. Psychologists, neuroscientists, biologists, and philosophers dedicate their lives to answering questions about who we are and how we operate. Along the way, these scientists find out some crazy, unbelievable, and sometimes unexplainable stuff about people. Not all of these facts fit into a nice tweet or quick fact, so sometimes these discoveries can be twisted or miscommunicated as they are shared with the general population....
Why do people commit crimes? Before you answer that question, it’s important to take a step back and define what you consider a “crime.” Is smoking marijuana a crime? Is bigamy a crime? What about fraud? After you’re done thinking about these questions, ask yourself who taught you that these certain actions were a crime. Because if you agree with differential association theory, it is the influence of others who led you to believe that certain “criminal” behavior is acceptable....
Newton’s Third Law states that for every action in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction. In psychology, opponent process theory suggests a similar idea - at least, in terms of emotions. There is an opponent process theory in color theory but also an opponent process theory in psychology. On this page, we will cover the latter. Understanding opponent process theory helps us understand motivation, emotion, and why the hair of the dog can lead to a dangerous spiral....
How do you know what is in front of you? The easy answer to that question is, “You see it.” But as some studies show and some psychologists suggest, the answer isn’t actually that easy. On this page, you will learn about perceptual adaptation. Psychologists like Henri Bergson suggest that perceiving the world around us actually requires some work that we’re not consciously aware of - including remembering everything we’ve ever known....
The brain is a fascinating organ. It’s the reason we feel pain, the reason we feel love, and the reason we remember the most significant events in our life. It’s also a mysterious organ. Unless you’re in a neuroscience class, you may not learn much about how the brain is structured and how it works. What color is it? What connects the two hemispheres of the brain? How much does it weigh?...
Did your parents neglect you? You may be quick to say “no” if you were raised in a one- or two-parent household and all your physical needs were met. Maybe you weren’t dropped off at an orphanage and your parents never hit you. But neglect doesn’t always look like violence or abandonment. Cases of childhood emotional neglect (CEN) may appear normal and even healthy to those who have experienced it. But as you’ll see on this page, it’s anything but a “healthy” thing to go through....
Trying to survey an entire population of people is hard. How could you possibly reacheverywoman between the ages of 20-29? Every student at your college? Every person in Germany? It takes a lot of time and money to get data from every single person, and when you finally do, that data might have changed! To combat this problem researchers might use methods like cluster sampling or stratified sampling to collect data from groups or individuals that represent the larger population....
How do you know what to do or what decisions to make? This is a big question, but it’s one worth considering. We often make decisions without even thinking about the people, information, or other factors that play into those decisions. Most of the time, this is okay, but following the crowd or relying on the influence of others doesn’t always help us make the best decisions. Informational social influence, or social proof, can lead us astray....
Recruiting people for a survey can be hard. Experimenters have to consider the randomness in their sample, the size of their sample, and the resources needed to bring their sample together. The work is worth it because you can’t survey an entire population! But what if you got yourparticipantsto do most of the work for you? You can, if you use snowball sampling as a sampling method. What Is Snowball Sampling?...
