Psychology

How Will You Cope With the Holidays?

These are uncertain and often frightening times for many people.  While none of my clients have thus far suffered any major emotional setbacks, the holidays are quickly approaching and I expect to see more depression and anxiety.  Since money is very tigh ...

Blog Post - Laura Hult - Sep 19 2009 - 11:01pm

Emotions A Bad Barometer In Risk Assessment

Global warming may not be a hot button topic these days because other threats, like  unemployment, terrorist attacks or death panels, are getting the media attention, says University of Colorado at Boulder psychology Professor Leaf Van Boven. That makes se ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2009 - 8:23am

A Study Of Someone You Know

My eyes open, and as usual, I don’t feel like getting up. I’m still sleepy, feeling lazy and bored to do anything. But I’ve got to get up, because I have something called work. And work gets my rent paid and gives me food to stay alive. So, these are serio ...

Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Sep 23 2009 - 2:49pm

The Unity Of The Mind- Or Not?

Let us take an Observer (O) who is sitting on a chair and in front of him is a table, upon which sits an apple. Now, if (O) decides to pick up the people, we can say that his ‘Mind’, his ‘Self’, his ‘Consciousness or his ‘I’ decided to pick up the apple a ...

Blog Post - Ayad Gharbawi - Sep 23 2009 - 2:44pm

Mad Genius- The Link Between Psychosis And Artistic Creativity

Psychiatrist Szabolcs Kéri of Semmelweis University in Hungary looked into an urban legend about the link between creativity and mental illness and says there may be something to it.     He focused his research on neuregulin 1, a gene that normally plays a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2009 - 5:23pm

Addicted To Being Good? The Psychopathology Of Heroism

We look at heroes and do-gooders as a special sort of breed; people who possess extraordinary traits of altruism, or self-less concern for the well-being of others, even at the expense of their own existence. On the other end, sociopaths also have an extra ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Mar 13 2011 - 6:55pm

Unpredictability And Post-Human Complex Systems

Most recent intellectual developments in post-human complex systems (see, e.g., www.hesiodproject.net) perceptively conclude that “social equilibrium” is just a theoretical state. But it is also something quite  undesirable. Equally undesirable is a linea ...

Article - Charalambos Tsekeris - Oct 2 2009 - 9:25am

Cougar-ific: Older Sexually Satisfied Women Have More Well Being Than Younger Ones

Women who considered themselves sexually satisfied had a higher overall psychological well-being score and scores for "positive well-being" and "vitality," compared with sexually dissatisfied women in a study of 295 women sexually activ ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2009 - 1:17am

Thinking Your Way To Happiness

Mind over matter. Think happy thoughts. Don't worry be happy. Accentuate the positive. Is happiness really that simple? Sure, it's easy to say, "Think positively." But to actually do it? Not so much. 1 We spend bazillions of dollars try ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Jan 4 2017 - 3:11pm

Determinism And Unpredictability In Chaotic Systems

The science of Chaos is usually defined as the systematic study of non-linear processes within dynamic turbulent systems (see www.hesiodproject.net). Vivid examples of such systems are: the global economy and the global crisis, wars and armed conflicts, h ...

Article - Charalambos Tsekeris - Oct 2 2009 - 12:54pm