o assume there is credibility when a successful actorpromotes a cold remedy, or when a psychology professor offers his views about politics, canlead to problems.
I think that this can related to advertisement. Some people buy a product because their favorite celebrity endorses the product. It could be a terrible item or idea but people buy them.
Advertisements, for example, may show celebrities, cute animals, beautiful scenery,or provocative sexual images that have nothing to do with the product.
Marketers do a great job targeting children as they know they might be more easily persuaded than adults. They use colors, fun music, and their favorite shows to get kids to convince their parent)s) to buy them a certain product. That's how I ended up with some of the toys I had as a child, these include Moon Shoes, because the advertisement said I would be able to jump like a kangaroo, which happened to be my favorite animal after I saw Kangaroo Jack.
we often try to manage,discipline, refine, improve, or develop theself.
I think that we change because of society and what we think is appropriate for that time in our lives. We adapt for our own protection and success.
Why might socially anxious people dread being praised?
I think it's because being praised means people are talking about you, and socially anxious people dread all people looking at them.
There are several explanations for why people with SAD avoid treatment—for starters, the fear of being evaluated by a therapist and the stigma of seeking psychologicalservices.
The very thought of asking for help can prevent people from seeking help. I know for me the thought of going to therapy meant I had to talk to someone about something I didn't know a lot about meant I was going to be judged my the therapist.
SADaffects men and women about equally, and the majority of people with SAD report that theirfears began in early adolescence, typically around age 13
This has to do with the fact that they are going through their most insecure years of their lives. It is the time where they begin to be self-conscious and compare themselves to other people.
For those people, negative social outcomes areviewed as highly probable and costly, and their attention during social interactions tends tobe inwardly directed (e.g., “Did my comment sound stupid? Can she tell that I’m sweating?”).This running internal commentary prevents people from focusing on the situation at hand,and even simple social interactions may become overwhelming (Bögels & Mansell, 2004)
This scenario can be crippling for people with social anxiety. Any wrong look, whether or not it is real, can destroy a person's self-confidence. It can even prevent them from being successful in life.
On one hand, upward comparisons on relevant dimensions canthreaten our self-evaluation and jeopardize self-esteem
We compare ourselves to people that are higher in status or knowledge, but I think it can be beneficial and detrimental to us depending on how we compare ourselves. If we think that we are just as smart or just as fortunate as the other person that could be good. If we think that we will never be as good as them then that can harm our self-image.
At the core of his theory is the idea that people come to know aboutthemselves—their own abilities, successes, and personality—by comparing themselves withothers.
I think that modern society has set standards that people can not meet, but that has not stopped us from trying to become them, no matter the costs.
Climbing into hisC-Class, Mr. Jones suddenly feels disappointed with his purchase and even feels envious ofMr. Smith. Now his C-Class feels just as uncoo as his old car
I think that this has to do with out constant need to not be happy with what we have. Another example would be with the latest phones, once one iphone comes out we want it and no matter how quickly the next one comes out we want the new one. It also plays a role in our social status, the newest item to show how much money we have compared to others.
For example, haveyou ever had a hard time trying to decideon a book to buy, then you see one rankedhighly on a book review website?
I always go for the higher ranked item, even if there are two items that are exactly the same. I think it's just reassuring to know more people liked the object and that it isn't messed up.
. Not only can our pastexperiences, expectations, motivations, and moods impact our reasoning
As humans we like to go to things that are familiar, even if it's not the smartest decision. We go back to the bad boyfriend/girlfriend, start the bad eating habit again, etc because it's what we know.
People know intuitively that we can better understand others’ behavior if we know thethoughts contributing to the behavior.
I think that is why it is hard for people with asperger syndrome to understand why people are upset. Not only do they have trouble reading others' facial expressions, they don't think about why someone would be upset and thus don't understand why they won't talk at dinner.
Conscientious people make better spouses. They are less likely than others to get divorced,partly because they avoid many behaviors that undermine intimacy, such as abusing theirpartners, drinking excessively, or having extramarital affairs
This may be because of the fact that these people work hard to make the people in their lives happy. They would try to not upset their partner or other people in their lives.
capacity to change oneself.
I don't think it just has to with how much they can change, but how much they are willing to change. Most people know that they can change, but some just do not want to, they are unwilling to change their lives, because of fear or stubbornness.
Collegestudents with high self-control get bettergrades, have better close relationships,manage their emotions better, havefewer problems with drugs and alcohol,are less prone to eating disorders, arebetter adjusted, have higher self-esteem,and get along better with other people,as compared to people with low self-control
These students know what can happen when they make it through college, when they do good in college, and are able to make connections they will be able to strive in life. They are able to focus on their goal and work hard to achieve the goals.
Many situations in life demand similar delays for best results. Going to college to get aneducation often means living in poverty and debt rather than getting a job to earn moneyright away. But in the long run, the college degree increases your lifetime income by hundredsof thousands of dollars.
We go to college and focus on our academics, not able to get a job sometimes in order to keep our grades up, We do this because we know we can get farther in life with that degree instead of just a high school diploma or no education at all. We pay thousands of dollars in the hops that one day we will make that much for ourselves.
While some argue that sexual attraction is primarily driven by reproduction (e.g., Geary, 1998),empirical studies point to pleasure as the primary force behind our sex drive. For example,in a survey of college students who were asked, “Why do people have sex?” respondents gavemore than 230 unique responses, most of which were related to pleasure rather thanreproduction (Meston & Buss, 2007). Here’s a thought-experiment to further demonstratehow reproduction has relatively little to do with driving sexual attraction: Add the number oftimes you’ve had and hope to have sex during your lifetime. With this number in mind, considerhow many times the goal was (or will be) for reproduction versus how many it was (or will be)for pleasure. Which number is greater?
I think that it matters how old you are. Of course college students aren't having sex to have a child, but ask most 30 year old married couple, they probably want to have kids so their goal during sex is most likely to reproduce.
However, less than a century ago, these same cultures were swaddling baby boys in pink,because of its masculine associations with “blood and war,” and dressing little girls in blue,because of its feminine associations with the Virgin Mary
This changed when clothing companies tried to market clothes with specific genders. "Best & Co. in Manhattan and Marshall Field in Chicago branded pink as a boy's color. Others like Macy's in Manhattan and Wanamaker's in Philadelphia identified pink as a girl's color." This was in 1927. https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/health/colorscope-pink-boy-girl-gender/index.html
five stages of psychosexual development: oral, anal, phallic, latent, andgenital. According to Freud, each of these stages could be passed through in a healthy orunhealthy manner. In unhealthy manners, people might develop psychological problems,such as frigidity, impotence, or anal-retentiveness.
Could a person who goes through these stages in an unhealthy manner could develop an unhealthy sexual attraction to someone or something? Could they become pedophiles?
Foralmost as long as we have been having sex,we have been creating art, writing, andtalking about it. Some of the earliestrecovered artifacts from ancient culturesare thought to be fertility totems.
In my art history course we learned that people made art about sex to the gods in order to pray to the gods and allow them to reproduce a large amount of children or for them to have a safe pregnancy. They would also make art about crops and rain, anything they thought as a necessity.
For instance, if Cindy cannot forgive Joe,Cindy will struggle to effectively resolve other disagreements in their relationship.
If you never forgive your partner then you may begin to resent the other person and then you may get angrier at any little thing they do, making your relationship filled by arguments and may result in divorce or a break-up.
When we disclose certain private things about ourselves, we increase the potential intimacythat we can have with another person, however, we also make ourselves vulnerable to gettinghurt by the other person. What if they do not like what I have disclosed or react negatively?It can be a double-edged sword. Disclosing positive news from one’s day is a great opportunityfor a daily deposit if the response from the other person is positive. What constitutes a positiveresponse?
By us disclosing certain parts of our lives we can get personal with someone without exposing our whole life to someone who may end up hurting us. l also think it hurts a relationship as we hide stuff and the fact that we feel as though we can't share everything in our life with our partner.
Given that 60% to 80% of the time, people disclose their most positive daily experiences withtheir partner (Gable et al., 2004), this becomes a regula
I think this number makes sense as we want to share the positive events in our lives with the ones we care about. I think it is our way of including them in parts of our lives even when they weren't physically there.
reliminary evidence suggests that the simplepresence of an infant can release oxytocin in adults as well
A study conducted called Parenthood and Marital Satisfaction shows that that statement is not true. Parents reported being 12 times unhappier than non-parents. It is not that they don't love their kids it is because of the societal pressures they face that people in other countries do not face. They have shorter maternity and paternity leave, pay can get cut, etc. So raising a kid gives them a purpose and a social life, as they have to interact with other parents, doctors, and anyone involved in their child's life, but they are not necessarily more happy than non-parents.
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Love is something that people need in the world to survive. It's not just a romantic love, it is a love between a parent and child, community members, and any relationships that can allow you to survive longer. You had to be able to trust and depend on another human being to save you or to help you hunt.
Pursuing education decreases the risk of divorce. So too does waiting until we are older tomarry.
I think that if the partners are equal in salary or at least both people work, there won't be resentment in the area of money, which is one of the largest arguments that a marriage can suffer from.
What our adult intimate relationships look like actually stems frominfancy and our relationship with our primary caregiver (historically our mother)
It has been said that we marry the primary caregiver because we want to be with someone who is familiar. So we typically marry the parent of the opposite sex in the form of our partner.
Streep, P. (2014, May 13). Why Your Partner May Be Like Your Parent. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-support/201405/why-your-partner-may-be-your-parent
. The elements involved in intimacy (caring,closeness, and emotional support) are generally found in all types of close relationships—forexample, a mother’s love for a child or the love that friends share. Interestingly, this is nottrue for passion. Passion is unique to romantic love, differentiating friends from lovers. Insum, depending on the type of love and the stage of the relationship (i.e., newly in love),different combinations of these elements are present
The different kinds of love can be seen everyday. Ryan Reynolds said that he would take a bullet for his wife, Blake Lively, until his daughter was born. He then said that he would use Blake as a human shield for his daughter. I think that that is a good example of how different passion and intimacy are.
Often we “stumble upon” friends orromantic partners; this happens partlydue to how close in proximity we are tothose people.
High school relationships often don't last once the two people go to different colleges. This is because they can't see each other everyday and don't have the same classes and friends. They don't have as many things in common the farther away they are from each other.
Although it maybe no surprise that attractiveness isimportant in romantic settings, its benefitsare found in many other social domains.
Like in That 70s Show with Kelso and Jackie, beauty was important to both of them. Physical beauty also has helps people in other ways. The prettier the woman or more handsome the man, the more likely they might get a job or do better on something than that of someone who is considered less attractive. A study conducted in 1974 proved that by having identical essays attached to a picture, and different people had a different picture of women with different levels of beauty. The essays with prettier woman in the pictures were said to be written better than the others.
Ciotti, G. (2014, December 07). The Surprising Power of a Beautiful Face. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/habits-not-hacks/201412/the-surprising-power-beautiful-face
Many parents report that having childrenincreases their well-being (White & Dolan, 2009). Researchers have also found that parents,compared to their non-parent peers, are more positive about their lives (Nelson, Kushlev,English, Dunn, & Lyubomirsky, 2013). On the other hand, researchers have also found thatparents, compared to non-parents, are more likely to be depressed, report lower levels ofmarital quality, and feel like their relationship with their partner is more businesslike thanintimate (Walker, 2011)
According to a study done in 2004 by Danny Kahneman that parenting can actually decrease our happiness. This study ask women to rank their daily tasks and rate their happiness during the tasks. he tasks that involve their children actually ranked really low, being compared to vacuuming. That same study doesn't show that they are unhappy with their children. Another part of the study shows that they aren't unhappy with their children, the parents are actually happier than non-parent, and men are happier than women. It is simply the fact that the menial tasks are what make them unhappy.
Inskeep, S., & Vedantam, S. (2013, February 19). Does Having Children Make You Happier? Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/2013/02/19/172373125/does-having-children-make-you-happier
Interestingly, parental roles have an impact on the ambitions of their children. Croft and hercolleagues (2014) examined the beliefs of more than 300 children. The researchers discoveredthat when fathers endorsed more equal sharing of household duties and when mothers weremore workplace oriented it influenced how their daughters thought. In both cases, daughterswere more likely to have ambitions toward working outside the home and working in lessgender-stereotyped professions.
Movies, TV shows, and books these days have begun to show women in more of an empowering role as a way to go with the Me Too movement and the changes in how society has begun to see women. There are shows such as Law and Order SVU where the main character and Lieutenant is a woman who has worked her way up the chain of command. She also has a child so the show shows that the woman can be successful in their job and have a family.
Although family may not be the central theme of these wand and sorcery novels, Harry'sexample raises a compelling question: what, exactly, counts as family?
I actually think that family was a theme n the books/movie. Harry's parents died and he was forced to live with this new family, his mentally and emotionally abusive aunt and uncle. But when he went to Hogwarts he made his own family with Ron, his family, Hermione, and teachers such as Dumbledore, McGonagall, etc. He got to decide who would be a part of his new wizarding family.