This question, so often asked by us in times of crisis and despair, or love and joy, expresses and indeed defines our sense of humanity. The question How should we live? is one that many ask in a crisis, jolted out of normal patterns of life. But that question is not always a simple request[…]
An awareness of our mortality, of our precious finitude, can move us to seek the meaning that we so desperately crave. ‘Despite all our medical advances,’ my friend Jason used to quip, ‘the mortality rate has remained constant – one per person.’ Jason and I studied medicine together back in the 1980s. Along with everyone[…]
Do you want to quit smoking? After taking this decision, you have won the half battle. You are moving toward a healthy lifestyle without any addiction. For this reason, you will need support from your loved ones and family members. To quit smoking, you have to change your behavior and deal with withdrawal symptoms. It[…]
Do you want to keep your brain healthy and strong? You have to pay attention to its training and exercise. Numerous activities will help you to train your mind and improve your response time, logic skills and memory. If you want some exciting methods to improve the fitness of your mind, here are some great[…]
Is it possible to compare parental love and romantic love? Or are they completely different and can’t be compared like nuts and bananas? Among numerous forms and types of love – parental, romantic, sibling, religious, pedagogical – are there any similarities? Any love is a superpower. It is able to reveal people’s talents and passions.[…]
You visualize yourself aging gracefully and living a long, healthy life filled with joy, happiness, family, friends, and plenty of fun. However, this is something that is not easy to pull off. You don’t just sit in your backyard and decide to live a long, healthy life, thinking that life expectancy is defined by genetics.[…]
The world is guilty of waiting for happiness to turn up on the doorstep, as though it is a construct that is going to arrive with you one day suddenly. Most people’s mission in life is to find their happiness, and a lot of people might spend the majority of their life wondering why it[…]
After WWI, German psychiatrists diagnosed traumatized soldiers as having “hysteria,” othering the men to somewhat disastrous effect. For many soldiers who returned from World War I, the terror of combat never abated. Though the statistics are still fuzzy, at least one historian estimates that upwards of twenty percent of all soldiers suffered from shell shock, the early twentieth-century[…]
We talk excitedly about meeting someone with whom we ‘click’ or ‘really hit it off.’ So why do so many of us hesitate to call it love? For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called “Love Stories,” we begin at the beginning, with love at first sight. To its detractors, love at first sight must be an illusion – the[…]
The irrelevance of the heart to love has been amply demonstrated by cardiac transplant surgeons. In William Shakespeare’s comedy Merchant of Venice, the play’s heroine Portia sings: Tell me where is fancy bred,Or in the heart or in the head. If you look at Valentine’s Day cards, it’s clear fancy is bred in the heart and not in[…]
Exploring the dominant influence of religious notions in people’s worldview, providing meaning and powerfully influencing their cognitions, emotions and behaviour. By Dr. Karen van der MerweSchool of Psychosocial Behavioural SciencesNorth West University South Africa Abstract This article explored psychological perspectives on the following: the reasons for humans’ religiousness, the influence of religion on people’s perspective[…]
As important as sexuality is to being human, it is often viewed as a taboo topic for personal or scientific inquiry. By Dr. Don Lucas and Dr. Jennifer FoxLucas: Professor of PsychologyFox: Assistant Professor of PsychologyNorthwest Vista College Abstract Sexuality is one of the fundamental drives behind everyone’s feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. It defines the[…]
Positioning Problems Problems into its nineteenth-century psychological and philosophical tradition, as understood by Lewes. By Scott C. ThompsonPhD Student in LiteratureTemple University Abstract In Problems of Life and Mind (1874—79), George Henry Lewes posits his theory of “Scientific psychology,” which is founded on a synthesis between the objective study of the mind practiced in physiology[…]