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Penetrating the Circle of Death: Why People are Dying (and Killing) Not to Die

The riddle of death  Martin Luther King Jr., the social activist who represents for ... of mortality in the human psyche Terror management theory (TMT) provides answers to such questions by offering an analysis of the ... as simple as asking them the first sentence that comes to mind when they think about their own death, as subtle as the word "death" ... / more

‘The Vision Thing’

... completion. [John Welch, American businessman, former head of General Electric] Vision is the key to understanding leadership, and ... gives powerful testimony to the practical advantages of a theory that accounts for the ongoing interplay between leadership and group ... / more

Complementing Individualism with The Social Identity Approach

... example, let`s assume you feel strongly about the sacredness of the Qur’an, and feel outraged when someone mocks your Holy Book. Or, ... individual. Right? Not quite. Almost four decades of theory and research have shown that the individual self is not always primary, ... / more

The Anatomy of Love

... humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism ."  -Sigmund Freud "How does it feel when ... off by a little. According to a very prominent psychology theory, having a sense of relatedness with others is one of the three most ... / more

Creativity is More Than a Trait: It’s a Relation

... is dressed in, it has apparently captured the awareness of countless authorities for educational, economical, governmental and last but ... who search for the essence of  creativity  in current theory and research are apt to be overwhelmed by both the current breadth of ... / more

There’s Something About Zero

For some people, looking at one or more of the numbers in the image will be an aesthetically unpleasant experience. ... concurrents (projectors) and those who view them in their mind’s eye (associators). There is also a distinction between higher and ... Varieties of grapheme-colour synaesthesia : A new theory of phenomenological and behavioural differences. Consciousness and ... / more

On Mirror Neurons or Why it is Okay to be a Couch Potato

... and feel the urge to do the same? Or how about the tendency of people to copy each other’s postures? In social psychology this phenomenon ... that person will copy the behaviour they see. There is a theory in social psychology that when people mimic each other’s posture they ... / more

The Double Edged Passion

... creatures. Our passions drive us, gives us a sense of belonging, and unite us as few other things can. Still, there are only a ... answer that psychology came to was not the ever popular theory that "some people are just jerks," but neither was it far off. A German ... / more

Why We Are Still Social

... years ago, when I first began writing about the evolution of human sociality, a colleague put to me the question: Why are ... asocial organisms (Caporael, 2007). As a result, the same theory serves for any species, oysters to humans, given what we ... us closer to developing theories to understand the human mind. The Minimalist Scenario Most behavioral scientists would agree ... / more

Five Social Psychology Essentials

... see the world anew. We're glad when students show signs of internalizing a social psychological perspective. More often than we like to ... long after they forget every experiment, definition, and theory. The choice of themes is somewhat subjective and even political, but ... / more