Roy Baumeister

The College Male and His Influence on the World Countless times during our lives, we will be faced with a choice to make. It is one or it is the other. You can have either chocolate or have vanilla; call heads or call tails; go right or go left; go to UT or go to OU. However, there is one situation in which being one or the other becomes a much more complicated endeavor. The concept of gender is one much more complex than that of deciding between two things, for gender is not a choice, but…

Every student start a new semester with a promise to study better. So I am not the exception. I always promise myself to become a better student, to do my homework and assignments on time,to concentrate all my attention on studying, to be punctual and more organized. Unfortunately, there a lot of factors that have a negative influence on my studying . I have some problems with self-discipline, time-management and daily routine that distracting me.Recently I have read the article by Jonah Lehrer…

your actions like getting bullied or judged by someone. Once you're accepted you feel like you're part of something great, positive interactions and will do anything just to stay in that group so people don't look like a loser or get kicked out. “Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary (1995) argue that the need to belong is a fundamental human need to form and maintain at least a minimum amount of lasting, positive, and significant interpersonal relationships. It really depends what type of group people…

experience confusion about their emerging responsibilities, directions and how they will belong in society (Gross, 1987). In “The Need to Belong: Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental Human Motivation”, professors Roy F. Baumeister and Mark R. Leary explain that “human beings have a pervasive drive to form and maintain at least a minimum quantity of lasting, positive, and significant interpersonal relationships”. Additionally, they share in their study that…

The need to belong is one of the strongest emotional needs sought after by animals. Being identified with another social group fulfills the intrinsic desires. This principle is called the need of affiliation. Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary (1995) argued that the need to belong is a fundamental human need to form and maintain at least a minimum amount of lasting, positive, and significant interpersonal relationships. These social interactions must be stable and occur frequently in order to main…

Is Self-Esteem Necessary for the Success and Health? Self-esteem has been known for multiple generations, and the question still wanders around. Does self-esteem even matter to the success and health of an individual? Since self-esteem has been classified as a unique characteristic of a person, researchers were trying to scrutinize the connection of self-esteem to success, psychological health, and achievement. Copious amount of people have been affected by low self-esteem and it leads to their…

The first subject in this series is desire. Desire is a significant part of the equation. If you have no desire to do something, will you give it your all? Think of it like this; you wake up every morning, grab a cup of coffee, head to work and see the same people you see every day. You sit at your desk and think to yourself why am I still working at this job? Why am I still working this 9-5? You have no desire to work at your job. Are you giving your job 100%? The answer is, more than likely…

Daphne Maeweather FAM 352 Book Review Summary Author Madeline Levine wrote a non-fictional book titled The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids. Levine wrote this book to bring awareness to the psychological, mental health issues that affluent adolescents face in their daily lives. Levine wanted her book to shed light on the seriousness of these problems, and to address how unhealthy parenting practices of…

Two psychological experimenters attempted to uncover the most brutal area of the human brain in their articles: Milgram 's "The Perils of Obedience" and Zimbardo 's "The Stanford Prison Experiment". The first and earliest of these experimenters was Stanley Milgram, who conducted his experiments at Yale University. He starts the article with information on testing whether or not a person would administer painful—and eventually lethal—shocks to other people when given the order by an authoritative…

Humans as a species are ridiculously complex. Our capacity for emotion is what sets us apart from all of the other species on the planet. While other organisms do feel emotion, we stand alone in the way we express ourselves. Alongside that is our unique sense of “good” and “evil”. Humans have a concept of what is right and what is wrong, and this is often called our conscience. In this area, we are again completely unique. The thing that makes this sense of right and wrong so profound is the…