Crowd psychology

Imagine you wake up and you’re on your way to an important work meeting, when all of a sudden you catch a flat tire. Some will take this situation and simply tell you that you have bad luck, while others will believe that in some way “negative” karma is finding its way back to you, because it’s believed that you actually deserved the flat tire for what you’ve done in the past. As human beings, we all tend to analyze situations differently. The Just World Phenomenon implies that the world is…

Lewis model and people’s character Richard Lewis is a British linguist and he wrote a book “When Cultures Collide”. In his book, he plotted countries in relation to three categories. The first one is linear-active, the second one is multi-active, the third one is reactive. These categories conclude lots of countries. On my opinion, to a certain extent, his points were right. But some details in this article, I disagree with him. I also have my own point of view. First of all, the model of…

perform meditation whether it be before a practice or the biggest game of their career because there is so many thoughts on your mind that could control your actions during that time. What if I mess up? What if I disappoint my coach? How will the crowd react if I fail? All questions confusing an athletes brain as they lace up their cleats and take the field.…

Pursuing a career as a counselor with the California Youth Authority and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation I’ll be able to apply my education to these areas. For example, in my psychology of criminality class I am learning the way criminals think, why they commit crimes, and why they think the way they do. So, applying my knowledge from this class will help me understand juveniles and inmates. Other classes such as victim services…

to take Psychology 101, I would tell her all about what psychology is and why it is so useful. Psychology involves scientifically studying both a person’s behavior and their mental processes. It involves a scientific attitude that is interested in asking and answering questions. Next, I would tell my friend that psychology is important because it seeks to understand others. Psychology helps humans to improve as psychologists learn more about humans’ behavior and mental processes. Psychology…

about our self and other that define our uniqueness. Social Psychology is the study of the constant changing relationship between individuals and the people around them. How our thoughts, feeling, belief and goals are construct goals. Our interaction with other around us play vital role in the process of understanding our relationship with each other, because consciously or not its influence our behavior and shapes our lives. Social psychology empathize attention on individual behavior on…

their emotions as if they were your own. Reading will change your personality traits and allows you to learn new life skills to better equip you for the future.If me telling you isn’t enough, then here’s some proof: Psychologist, Raymond Mar and psychology professor, Keith Oatley reported in studies in 2009 that “individuals who read fiction appear to be better able to understand other people, empathise with them and view the world from their…

mentioned reasons yet these children had never been a part of a study. Their answers included: because it makes them feel smarter, stronger, or better than the person they’re bullying, they are bullied at home, they want to hang out with the ‘in’ crowd, other people are doing it, they are jealous of the other person, or they are trying to prevent themselves from getting bullied. These words were not from a doctor’s mouth or someone who had done years’ worth of studying to find the cause, it was…

It was the first week of class at University of North Carolina. I was already in college and attending one of my first freshman classes in a large auditorium. I remember that the college was UNC in particular because some people were wearing shirts and sweaters from the bookstore. It was dark outside even though the sun should have been out since I was going to class and doing things that I would normally always do during the day. There were lots of different characters in my dream, most of them…

result in sounds having tastes and words having colors. Synesthesia is a product of signals crossing in response to stimulation from the environment leading to automatic, involuntary and unusual experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway (Psychology Today, 2017). Results are subjective to each individual and are not predictable among…