How People Pick Up Anxiety Through Classical Conditioning
This post gives an account of the processes that are involved in the learning of anxiety. More specifically, it will consider the theory of classical conditioning.
Behaviors
Study: Predictors of Internet Addiction (Loneliness, Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction)
In a recent study, Bozoglan and colleagues (2013) found the three factors: loneliness, self-esteem and life satisfactions to predict internet addiction among 384 university students. …
Object Attachment and Risk Perception Predicts Cell Phone Use While Driving
Distracted driving is a significant public health problem. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the number of traffic injuries was as high as 24,000 in …
Why Do People Shop Impulsively?
A study by Bratko and colleagues (2013) examined the relationship between personality and impulsive shopping. The study shows that personality can explain at least some of the difference …
Study: Happy People are More Likely to Steal than People With Neutral Emotions
New research by Vincent and colleagues (2013) has come up with a rather interesting finding about the tendency to commit theft. The authors conducted two …
The Ripple Effect (Emotional Contagion in Groups)
The ripple effect is emotional contagion in groups, which is more precisely the transfer of moods among people in a group. This is an interesting …
Can Personality Explain Why Some People Use Social Network Sites More Than Others?
Facebook is one of many social network sites (SNS) where people present themselves in certain ways and maintain their relationships, but what does research say about …
8 Psychological Mechanisms that Enable People to Hurt Others (The Psychology of Evilness)
It seems like most people are capable of doing harm to others, as shown in Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment. However, self-reports have also revealed that obeying to hurt …