Social neuroscience: Integrating biological and
psychological explanations of social behavior
In the 2004 lecture, Michael White subverts dominant and popular positivist
psychological explanations of personhood and instead - speaks to the possibility of alternative identity conclusions and unique outcomes.
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Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: Eysenck's theory of the criminal personality; cognitive explanations; level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution bias and minimalisation; differential association theory; psychodynamic explanations.
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Psychological explanations of offending behaviour: Eysenck's theory of the criminal personality; cognitive explanations; level of moral reasoning and cognitive distortions, including hostile attribution bias and minimalisation; differential association theory; psychodynamic explanations.
Not only must it be recognized that the resurrection occurred — we have seen that our own being as members of the community bears witness to it — but also that no naturalistic or purely
psychological explanation of it is adequate.
Not exact matches
As for feeling the presence
of the Christian savior in your life... that, too, can be countered with a
psychological explanation.
Peaple choose to suspend their reason because their
psychological needs require the existence
of a sky daddy, because they NEED to explain things, and they see no other
explanation.
«We form our beliefs for a variety
of subjective, personal, emotional, and
psychological reasons in the context
of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture, and society at large; after forming our beliefs we then defend, justify, and rationalize them with a host
of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments, and rational
explanations.
In my decision to focus my review on Dr. Podles» historical and
psychological explanations for the relative dearth
of men in church, it never occurred to me that his proposals for reform in chapter ten were quite so independent from his scholarship and analysis in chapters one through nine.
I am fairly confident that there is a natural (
psychological, physical)
explanation for any lack
of experience you claim to have had.
of human experience.6 In all fairness the image could be inverted, for theology has failed to include in its
explanations «lower» elements
of experience (sexuality, family relations, human
psychological development), which is equally reductionist.7
«And even if we supposed (as is probable) that many oracles were not cooked to order, but were expressions
of the individual or group unconscious, or
of the prophet's «sincere conviction»... even this account
of the cause permits, and indeed, requires naturalistic,
psychological analysis and
explanation.
Psychological explanations still carry overtones
of moralism and free - will - ism in our culture, whereas medical analogies seem to escape these overtones to a large degree.
But if we seek so to explain the preaching
of Jesus, we should have only a
psychological explanation, not an insight into the inner relationship
of eschatology and demand.
As time passed, we became less convinced
of the adequacy
of the
psychological explanations we had first offered.
I wonder if this may be part
of the
explanation for the more serious social and
psychological problems
of various kinds the modern world seems to be saddled with.
«The advent
of the smartphone is the most plausible
explanation for the sudden decrease in teens»
psychological well - being.»
Richard Wiseman (2011) has noted that OBE research has focused on finding a
psychological explanation and «out -
of - body experiences are not paranormal and do not provide evidence for the soul.
From pop - scientific postulates to bona fide
psychological hypotheses, there's an overwhelming smorgasbord
of explanations on offer as to why both men and women consistently decide to ditch monogamy and play away from home.
In episode 103, Penn & Teller spend three days at a UFO convention and visit an alien - abduction group therapy session as they explore the
psychological explanations for - and the influences
of pop culture on - the typical abduction story.
Clouzot, perhaps most famous for two films that followed — Diabolique and The Wages
of Fear — knew how to create a complex
psychological drama that defied easy
explanation even though all the elements appeared straightforward.
If the heads
of the Department
of Education
of your state knew anything about test development, they would have noticed that something about the College Board's
explanation didn't add up and would have requested copies
of the records
of the face - to - face committee meetings, which the College Board must keep in order to comply with the Standards
of Educational and
Psychological Testing.
Was it Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train — the
explanation du jour for everything in the genre — that prompted the explosion
of stand - alone thrillers, and especially those utilizing unreliable narrators and emphasizing
psychological suspense?
I got them, played them, finished them and so on, however, silent hill really stood out for me due to the ambiguity
of its surroundings, the focus on
psychological horror which was unheard
of in games at the time, eerie soundtrack, disturbing environments, the amazing puzzles, the unforgettable scenes such as when Lisa was bleeding off to death due to Samael's possession and the fact that the hell the character was experiencing didn't have much
explanation at the time and that added to the appeal
of the game.
As demonstrated by a retrospective
of her work that opens in July at the Whitney Museum in New York (following stops at Centre Pompidou in Paris and Tate Modern in London), Kusama — notwithstanding her
explanation that her work expresses her
psychological obsessions — has always been an artist
of her time and, usually, a step or two ahead
of it.
Another
explanation for happiness could be the
psychological conquest
of thrusting oneself into a stream
of frigid water upon rolling out
of a warm bed.
[18] While I am
of the view that the failure to pay child support will not often constitute an act
of family violence, when the failure is the result
of a determined decision not to pay, knowing the impact it would have on Ms. B., who had limited income, and my rejection
of Mr. P.'s
explanation for failing to pay, I have concluded that this was designed to inflict
psychological and emotional trauma to Ms. B. and is therefore an act
of family violence.
«Coffee — grounds for insights about law departments Main One
psychological explanation for the durability
of billing by the hour»
He is also a master
of writing clear
explanations of complex techniques, both in journal articles and monographs on
psychological methods.
With regard to future research, more research is needed that specifies the conditions under which children with chronic illnesses show elevated levels
of psychological distress and that provides empirically supported
explanations as to why some kinds
of illness seem not to cause elevated levels
of depressive symptoms.
Felton, B.J., Revenson, T.A.,, 1984, Stress and coping in the
explanation of psychological adjustment among chronically ill adults 18: 889 ~ 898
Until the past 10 years or so, the
explanation was that the
psychological and developmental tasks
of adolescence were to blame.
This edition
of the PCCY guide also includes specific information about trauma including signs and symptoms
of traumatic stress and
psychological trauma, an
explanation of why trauma - focused treatment may be necessary, tips for finding qualified trauma treatment therapists and a list
of Philadelphia agencies who offer Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF - CBT), an evidence based trauma treatment that is effective for children ages 3 - 18.
During treatment patients were encouraged to question a simple disease
explanation of the illness and to consider the role
of psychological and social factors.
There is NO OTHER
EXPLANATION possible for the presence in the child's symptom display
of this disparate set
of a-priori predicted specific symptoms other than the pathogenic parenting
of a narcissistic / (borderline) parent, in which the child acquires and expresses the
psychological state
of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, hence the presence in the child's symptom display
of narcissistic and borderline personality traits.
It includes key
explanations of essential
psychological and psychotherapeutic constructs for individual, couples, and family psychology as well as tools for improving one's life and relationships.
A possible
explanation could be that we focused on delinquency including at least some serious offences, while Barber et al. (1994) focused on delinquency that included a relatively limited range
of minor delinquent acts.4 Nevertheless, our findings clearly indicate that
psychological control, including keeping the child dependent and the use
of guilt to control the child, elevates the risk for delinquent behavior.
For those
of you who like to nerd out (like me) on
psychological explanations and neuroscience stuff, this article from Health Guidance does a good job
of describing the science
of boredom without being too much vocabulary mumbo - jumbo.
At the same time, they are remarkably effective when done correctly, and when
psychological reversal is first removed (see the articles for
explanations of what psychologial reversal is).
They also include parental
psychological stress stemming from economic problems.38 Such parental stress is often accompanied by parenting styles that do not favour the intellectual development
of the child.39 — 41 Moreover, confounding factors such as the parents» own cognitive ability, 42 education43 and
psychological health24 are
of course also part
of the
explanation.
One
explanation for this difference may be that non-White mothers and single mothers
of children, especially those with chronic illness, experience more stress and poorer
psychological and physical well - being, factors associated with negative parenting behaviors (Auslander, Thompson, Dreitzer, White, & Santiago, 1997; Eckshtain, Ellis, Kolmodin, & Naar - King, 2010; Forehand et al., 2012; Thompson et al., 2001).