It is the interaction between people, rather than the events that occur in their lives, that is the main focus of social psychology.
But psychology has unlocked a number of tools to help the rest of us do a better job of seeing and acting on the unethical behavior of others.
According to Psychology Today, 92 percent of Swedish teenagers admitted to viewing online pornography at some point.
Their study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, found those who believed their partner would be unfailingly kind, loving and agree with their every word, could retain their positive outlook by being forgiving, and having charitable explanations for their partner's negative behaviour.
they'd be less likely to establish and comfortably maintain a relationship with very traditional, conservative, unimaginative, risk-avoidant individuals,' said Western Carolina psychology department head David McCord.
Neuroscience Graduate Program and the Department of Psychology, and his team conducted a study involving several couples who rated themselves as highly satisfied with their marriages.
The study, published in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, showed that a man is more willing to pay for a good-looking woman.
Blood types, determined by the proteins in the blood, have nothing to do with personality, said Satoru Kikuchi, associate professor of psychology at Shinshu University.
Decades of research on the science of happiness shows that there's a big—and potentially life-altering—difference between what you think will make you happy and the things that actually do, argues University of California, Riverside psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD, in her fascinating new book The Myths of Happiness.
It depends on psychology of different minds.
Lei Wuming, a professor in psychology at Wuhan University of Technology, explained that students are overwhelmed by their studies in high school.
'Cognitive empathy,' or the mental ability to take others' perspective, begins rising steadily in girls at age 13, according to a six-year study published recently in Developmental Psychology.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 Stress is an ignorant state.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990 The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
" "So you have this kind of cultural shift which basically means that adolescence extends into your late twenties and that can hamper you in all kinds of ways, and I think what psychology does is it inadvertently reinforces that kind of passivity and powerlessness and immaturity and normalises that.
, Reverse Psychology for Success The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards.
Trainor, a professor of psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Melissa Bateson and colleagues at Newcastle University, UK, put up new price lists each week in their psychology department coffee room.
" Tom Stafford, a professor of cognitive development and psychology at Sheffield University in the U.
The 12 Steps of Positive Psychology The positive psychology movement is surely gaining momentum.
