Knowledges in Psychology
Choose your interests from a vast range of topics
- Clinical Psychology
- Consumer Psychology
- Counseling Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Educational Psychology
- Environmental Psychology
- Experimental Psychology
- Family Psychology
- Forensic & Psychology of Law
- Health Psychology
- Industrial Organizational Psychology
- Neuropsychology/Psychobiology
- Physiological Psychology
- Psychometrics & Quantitative Psychology
- Rehabilitation Psychology
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Psychological Theories of Love
Why do people fall in love? Why are some forms of love so lasting and others so fleeting? Psychologists and researchers have proposed several different theories of love to explain how love forms and endures. Love is a basic human emotion, but understanding how and why it happens is not necessarily easy. In fact, for a long time, many people suggested that love was simply something too primal, mysterious, and spiritual for science to ever fully understand.
Aman Kumar Singh
Can money buy happiness? Yes! But conditions apply
First, according to science, when a person starts earning above an average estimated income, he starts losing the greed or fun that he thought he will get when he wished for that income. Just like that toy which you wanted most, but you lose interest when you actually get it along time. So, Yes! The Money will give you a kind of happiness which will also be a limited period offer! At the end of life, Money<Life! We spend all our life running after green paper and on our last time, realise that it wasn’t the thing you really needed. Actually, “I wish, I didn’t work so hard” is the second most popular regret that people had on their deathbed, after “I wish I had been true to myself” which simply tells us that what matters in life is not the temporary fame or fulfilment, but the long-run love, satisfaction & Happiness. Whenever I am not sure about choosing between a high paying job and a job I love, I ask myself a simple question that What will I get? If I chosen the “High Paying” job, it will get me more money, more money means more satisfaction, security & power which will lead to a happy & fulfilled life. Right? Wrong! Because that job will also cost me my family, friends & me time along the death of many of my talents & dreams leading to a life which look good from upside, but has an emptiness inside. In the other case, if I got the job I love, I would pursue my dreams & talents, get more time for myself and lead a life which maybe, only maybe is less luxury but way more satisfying & beautiful, both from inside & outside. In the end, I will just leave you with this quote of Billionaire Steve Jobs, “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
Goutam Ahuja
TEENS TURNING OFFENSIVE
Teens turning offensive, I'm sure the title have given you a guess about what I'm going to talk with you here. As we all use social media, do watch movies and much more in this digital world. We all must have come across the things we often tend to ignore. Vulgar comments, dirty videos showing teens indulging into unproductive activities like smoking, alcohol (actually shown as status symbol )and this one is somewhat trendy these days -coping stupid or obscene terms (like swag) . Not only this, but vulgarity in movies and the Internet -where every answer is kept , are not behind in this race. What's all this? ? This is the reason behind why teenagers nowadays gets misled easily. This is surely horrible but one out of five is believed having tried drugs at least once. Not just drugs,many times we heard the news of a teen getting pregnant. Moreover, increasing rape cases, women harassment, sexting, all are the outcome of this terrible and cruel stuff that was not supposed to be on this digital world and make teens vulnerable. They are turning towards a culture that was never theirs. That's not we Indians are belonged to. We are supposed to treat everyone with love and respect and that's what our culture is all about. And guys, I can't wait till loyalty and morals become a new trend again.
Jasreen
Changing Lifestyles
Changing Lifestyles
Arushi Verma
Ethiopia case study
Case srudy
Saili Gupta
Difficult people have most to gain from practicing
The most disagreeable individuals, who are also the least likely to be kind, can benefit most from behaving more compassionately, a York University study has found. More than 640 people who were mildly depressed took part in the study which tracked the results of online compassion training. Researchers asked the participants, who were on average in their mid-30s, to take part in one of three online compassion intervention exercises including a control condition. They were asked to complete their exercise and report back via an online platform every other day for three weeks. Two months later, disagreeable participants who performed acts of kindness in close relationships showed the greatest reductions in depression and greatest increases in life satisfaction. "Everybody needs people," says lead author Myriam Mongrain, Professor of Psychology in York's Faculty of Health. "As a result of their hostility and lack of cooperation, disagreeable types risk getting rejected or ostracized. There is a lot of conflict in their relationships, and they suffer the consequences. We found that providing concrete suggestions to those individuals, giving them ways in which they could express empathic concern in their close relationships was tremendously helpful." Highly disagreeable people often lack empathy, even in their close relationships, said Mongrain. "Implementing these new behaviours might have left them feeling affirmed and liked in their close social circle. This might have been the anti-depressant ingredient in this group," she said. Mongrain adds the findings are particularly noteworthy given that the interventions were administered online and only required 10-15 minutes every other day. In other words, it was easy to implement, could be administered worldwide and had profound effects for some individuals. In another exercise condition involving Loving Kindness Meditation, participants were asked to spend up to 10 minutes meditating on nurturing phrases such as "May you be happy" or "May you be safe." This exercise was of benefit to participants as a whole. However, when examining interactions effects with the disagreeable personality variable, the researchers found that it was the Acts of Kindness exercise that was most helpful for this subgroup. Researchers say the results could have immediate practical applications for social scientists, policymakers, psychology researchers, and health practitioners. The widespread application of compassion interventions could contribute to a more humane and kinder society, particularly when targeted at those prone to hostility. "It's like at the end of the story of the Grinch," says Mongrain. "When he took people in they said his heart grew three sizes bigger, and he also became happy. You can't be an island unto yourself. Sometimes those who are hostile say they don't need people, but at the end of the day, it does affect mood. People get very drained from disagreements with their spouse for example, so the toll that it takes is not to be minimized. This kind of intervention could be an antidote for those who are lacking in compassion." The study is published in the journal, Translational Issues in Psychological Science.
Sonal Srivastava
How You Love A Damaged Person
Loving a damaged person is absorbing their poison and hoping it ends before you’ll lie dead on the ground. It’s saving someone while you’re losing yourself in the process. It’s never knowing whether what’s between you is real or not. It’s being stuck in a loop of mind games, never figuring out when will they come to an end. You get consumed by their darkness, depriving you of oxygen, and they become the only thing you can breathe. They will give you just enough of themselves to hang on there, to stay close. They won’t let you go because deep down they need you, but they won’t give you any more of themselves because they know how powerful feelings may be. This is not the kind of love you see in movies, nor is it romantic in any way. It’s not the story of two people who fall in love with each other, go out on exquisite dates, text all day, and open their hearts to one another during midnight calls. It’s not spontaneous adventures and sweet “miss you” notes. It’s not the live version of Ed Sheeran songs. No. Loving a damaged person is one of the hardest, bravest things you could ever go through. It’s a series of battles that will change you forever, battles few are strong enough to endure. Loving a damaged person requires rivers of patience and oceans of love. It’s fighting for someone who’s only half present, half available. Someone who keeps your relationship undefined, someone who locks their feelings in a valve with no keys. It’s climbing the walls they’ve built around themselves, and never quite reaching the top. It’s desperately shouting out for them to open up, as they dive deeper into themselves as you approach. It’s being sent mixed signals because they want you, yet they fear you. They fear the feeling that still haunts them from the past, the feeling of being hurt, the feeling of being left behind. And they realize that this feeling only comes from being vulnerable, from opening up to people, from making them see the real you, the person you are trying to hide behind your shallow skin. That’s why they have mastered ways to protect themselves from getting hurt. The smell of betrayal still lingers on their door, and whatever you do and no matter how much you try, it seems impossible to prove to them that you’re not like the rest, that you will never leave them, that your love is stronger than any force in this world. Because staying with a damaged person requires all the love you could possibly have. It’s a win or loses the game. In the end, it’s either winning the war or losing everything; including yourself. Loving a damaged person is self-destruction, it’s agony, it’s toxin running all through your body, it’s 2 AM tears all over your pillow; it’s simply hell on Earth. You are sent on a mission to slowly peel their shield, layer by layer, and part by part. To slowly melt their heart. It might take you months to make cracks in the iceberg they have inhabited, and years to touch their soul. It’s a task meant only to the strong-willed, to the patient, to the ones who know how to love unconditionally, because the truth is, loving someone who has been hurt is caring for them while expecting anything in return. Loving a damaged person is a war, a war few are ready to fight, that’s why they are often left alone. They seem to us like strong independent people who need no one, but inside they are the most vulnerable beings needing a hand to hold and a soul to understand. Damaged people crave love more than anything else, yet they run from it at its very sight. They want an emotional connection, yet every time they try to establish one, ghosts of their past start haunting them, carrying images of the pain they had to endure. They push you away, yet secretly hope you would still insist on staying. Damaged people are so full of love, and that’s exactly why they’re so afraid to fall in it. They are people who have learned to put themselves first because they are tired of giving their all to the ones who’ll eventually leave. They have been through the darkest tunnels of life and have witnessed what it means to stand alone on the edge of the world with no hand to hold as the winds get stronger. They have seen the devils in those who wore angel disguise, and now have a hard time trusting faces. They have been in stories no one will ever hear about, they have stayed awake on nights their mind would wonder to the forbidden places. They know what it took them to make it here, and they are not willing to allow anyone to hurt them again. That’s why, if you choose to love a damaged person, you have to be patient with them, you have to be delicate, you have to make the first step too many times, and most importantly, you must have real feelings for them, feelings that will endure the challenges of time, the battles awaiting you, the storms approaching the coast of your heart. And the tragedy is that in a world full of options and opportunities, in a world where most roads are smoothly paved, few will ever choose the rigid path to a damaged person’s heart.
Power
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Deepanshu Vaya
Suchit Raw Patel
Love An Empath
For many, “empath” means supernatural people that can take on the abilities and thoughts of people around them. When it comes to pop culture, especially science fiction, this is usually how they are portrayed. In real life, this isn’t that far off (minus the whole supernatural part). Empaths are just highly sensitive individuals, in tuned to the emotions and feelings around them. Every cashier at a store, person at the bank, or customer they have to interact with at work leaves some sort of impression. If that person is hurting, an empath will suddenly feel like they’re hurting. If they are angry, empaths get angry for seemingly no reason at all. It is a rollercoaster depending on the people they come into contact with which can leave them feeling constantly drained or tired. For people who don’t operate on that level of sensitivity it can come across as though empaths are just overly introverted, but it goes much deeper than that. Not every empath is an introvert. Where introversion is having your energy depleted by interactions with other people, being an empath means experiencing specific emotions and feelings on a mental, emotional, and sometimes even physical level. This makes them susceptible to the effects of these feelings such as depression, body aches, anxiety attacks, or food, sex, and alcohol binges that can’t be explained. This means an empath has to be even more intentional about self-care than the average person. For someone who loves an empath all of that can be very difficult to understand. Loving an empath means knowing that events where there will be big groups of people take a significant toll on them. Being surrounded by people means an empath will be taking in all of the emotions and feelings each of those people are experiencing. It’s like being in a room surrounded by TVs that are all playing different stations without a way to control any of them. That office party or family gathering is a barrage to the senses of an empath, leaving them feeling exhausted. Loving an empath also means understanding that there will be times they don’t know how to explain what they’re feeling. With so much information being taken in, it’ll sometimes be hard to verbalize it. They’ll feel things and have no idea why or where it came from. This is not always a part of their lives they can control. Even time and training doesn’t guarantee that an empath will not sometimes get overwhelmed; while it can be managed, it may not ever be fully mastered. Loving an empath means being sympathetic to the fact they’ll unwillingly attract toxicity into their lives. They’re naturally good listeners, caring, and giving which makes them targets for hurt and dysfunction. People will come to them looking for advice, a shoulder to cry on, or just someone to vent to and they’ll feel obligated to be there. It’s very common to find empaths in relationships with narcissistic or dramatic people because empaths care so much about the people around them. Being able to see these unhealthy relationships and steering them away from them will be one of the greatest things you can do to love an empath. Loving an empath means accepting you’ll not be able to hide things from them. They’re essentially human polygraphs meaning if you aren’t being honest, an empath will know, even if they can’t pinpoint exactly about what. Their sensitivity to the energy around them means subtle things that most people miss will be obvious to them. Your body language, the inflection in your voice, and other nonverbal cues will all be apparent. It’s especially important to understand this before getting romantically involved with an empath. For some, your guardedness or half-truths will not necessarily be a deal breaker, particularly if they can identify the root. For others, being romantic with a person that isn’t being transparent with them will be exhausting and they’ll quickly break off the relationship. Loving an empath means allowing them alone time to process. One of the ways an empath centers and focuses is to get away and shut off the flow of information. They’ll need to go on a hike, or go see a movie, or just go sit in a coffee shop to process through the feelings they’re experiencing, including their own. It doesn’t mean they’re cutting you out, it’s just a way of controlling what they’re taking in. Loving an empath will be one of the most fulfilling relationships you’ll ever be in, if you let it. Empaths are the type of people that’ll always be there for you; they’ll understand what you’re feeling, know what you need, and be able to give you the support you’re looking for. However, it also means being as transparent with yourself as you’ll have to be with them. Empaths genuinely want what is best for everyone around them and will do whatever it takes to make that happen. It will be a relationship, romantic or not, that will make you grow as a person and while it may be challenging at first, it will be one of the most honest relationships you’ll ever have.
Amit KM