Laughter is the Best Cement
Have you ever noticed how contagious emotions can be? Research shows that positive emotions are the most contagious…
Category: Social Sciences
Selflessness
You can’t forget what you don’t know. Take driving as an example. When you become a confident and…
Firing On All Cylinders?
For more than three hundred years Western thought has been dominated by the images of industrialism and scientific…
Human Nature – A Conceptual Framework – II
How much do our expectations of others – positive or negative – influence our relationships with them? Most…
Unique Reality and the Unique Self
In the 1940s psychologists Donald Snygg and Arthur W. Combs introduced ‘phenomenal field theory.’ The idea was borrowed…
Ourselves and Others
Cooperation and it’s pre-requisite, reciprocity, require us to learn how to get on together but real human development…
Talking to Your Hat
In the title-story of the book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, neurologist Oliver Sachs describes Dr. P…
I think therefore I act…
If our social reality and education are the factors outside of us that shape our view of reality, what…
A new look at family-ties.
In 1967, social psychologist, Stanley Milgram conducted his small world experiment while he was teaching at Harvard. This…