In the decades following the Nazi Holocaust of World War II, psychologists endeavored to understand the psychology behind mass acceptance of and participation in large-scale moral atrocities. In 1967, Burt Ross' controversial "Wave" experiment into group identification and blind o...

The American Psychological Pattern and Reality Television In this era of America's infatuation with reality television, one show seems to prevail in keeping millions glued to their TV's week after week to scrutinize the typical, everyday people who are thrown into an extraordinary situation with t...

The human mind constantly responds to the environment or external stimuli. Thus, the social environment and culture that we are exposed to, especially as infants and in our youth, condition our very thinking and behavior. This is precisely why family environment and values play a key role ...

"Born to be Good" Are we "Born to be good?" Why do we act the way we do towards others? Celia Kitzinger examines morality of people in her paper and gives explanations as to why people act the way they do towards others who may be in pain or suffering. She also describes how p...

The article, Ethics Without Gods, illustrates the statement if believing in God is the only way for people to behave ethically. Throughout the article, Frank Zindler, supports his disagreement that ethics without gods exists in this humane society by analyzing the evolutionary history of human behav...

Reading, Writing,... And Moral Intellegence Dr. Borba, an educator, lecturer, and author has researched violence and anti-social youth. She found that many kids lacked moral intelligence traits, especially when it comes to empathy and self-control. These kids have a...

Introduction Skinner, following in the footsteps of John B. Watson, believed the final goal of behaviorism, and ultimately psychology was "the prediction and control of behavior"(Benjamin, 1997, p.396). Of course, with this prediction and control of behavior there comes some important philosophica...

Introduction Skinner, following in the footsteps of John B. Watson, believed the final goal of behaviorism, and ultimately psychology was "the prediction and control of behavior"(Benjamin, 1997, p.396). Of course, with this prediction and control of behavior there comes some important philosophica...

For centuries upon centuries, the essence of war has shaped and evolved the world that we live in today. There are very few positive characteristics that come out of engaging in war because of how widely detrimental to the world it can be. In the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway takes a...

John Locke once said, "I am thus a clean slate eagerly awaiting to be written upon, an impressionable sponge ready to feast on rational knowledge (1)." This quote shows the basis of his philosophy on the human mind at birth. John Locke uses the term "Tabula Rasa" which is a Latin...

In Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderon de la Barca, there are two essential, opposing perspectives of human nature. One view is that humans live and react based upon their wishes and what they want. This view is furthered in that the only way to control this pursuit of individual happiness is to g...

Cruelty of War Primarily, Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" depicts the experiences of a Lieutenant and his men during the Vietnam war. As O'Brien develops the story, he embodies the idea that life at war inflicts psychological trauma and emotional conflicts within American soldiers. O'Bri...

How We Believe In the book, How We Believe, written by Michael Shermer, he presents the idea that humans are story-telling animals. It is in the human nature to tell stories at times that are needed to either prove a point or simply just to teach a moral. Ever since the beginning of time, stori...

Bigelow, Gordon E., "A Primer of Existentialism." In his essay "A Primer of Existentialism," Gordon Bigelow acknowledges the impact of this "ism" on literature, art, philosophy, theology and social science. Furthermore, he goes on to state the six major themes common ...

The Effects of Television Has our nation been deceived by the media? Has the media sent forth an era that it is all right to define what was considered old fashion values? Hundreds of arguments can be made on the topic that Television is playing good or bad role in the society, but most of the ...

My Child is Innocent! Has our nation been deceived by the media? Has the media sent forth an era that it is all right to define what was considered old fashion values? Hundreds of arguments can be made on the topic that Television is playing good or bad role in the society, but most of the phil...

Sigmund Freud When I was 10th grade in Korea, I took a psychology lecture for the first time in the academy. That time, I came into some psychologists and lots of theories about psychology. In the beginning, it was very strange and difficult to learn. But as time passed by, I had more interest in ps...

Organizations of one form or another are a necessary part of our society and serve many important needs within it. An organisation is a form of human association for the attainment of common purpose by combining the talents and efforts of it members. (Northcraft, 1990 pg. 29) People within the organ...

An Original Thought? Have you ever wondered where your creative thoughts derive from? The mind is always in an ongoing process of thought. However, if you were to be asked to construe whether a thought was an original thought or a non-original thought. How would you do so? Can it be so easy as...

Megan B. Welch September 25, 2000 Televisions Negative Effects on Children Have you seen what is on television? Do you care about your kids? In one hour of television your child could be exposed to graphic sex or violent killings. Children are very impressionable, especially at a young age, and...