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Tag: Psychological concepts

  • The Sanctum of Self-Identity

    The Sanctum of Self-Identity

    In early 6th century Athens (BCE), it was all the rage.  Introduced by Thespis, play-acting quickly attained widespread popularity among the Athenians who, like most people, were looking for diverting forms of entertainment to fill the evening hours. On one such evening the aged patriarch Solon, celebrated lawmaker and civic founder, was persuaded to attend […]

  • Psychology and Evil

    As a trained industrial/organizational psychologist eons ago I studied the subject of evil only casually and ignorantly. I realized after studying and writing extensively about organizations, especially corporations and government bureaucracy in America, that together they are a motherlode of evil in character and behavior. In this article I explain my belated insight. When I […]

  • Why I Don’t Rely on Hope

    “Where do you find hope?” “How do you sustain hope?” Those are probably the most common questions in response to more than three decades of writing and lecturing about today’s multiple cascading social and ecological crises. For years I struggled with how to answer, wanting to be honest but sensitive to the anxiety that typically […]

  • Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part II

    Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part II

    Summary of Part I In Part I of my article, I described how initially the field of social psychology had deep roots in the socio-cultural traditions of Wundt, Royce, Baldwin, Cooley, Thomas and Mead. But by the beginning of World War I a shift towards individualism can be seen in the work first of the […]

  • Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part I

    Yankee Micro Social Psychology Part I

    Orientation Developing a Marxist social psychology is a very important aspect of explaining what is going on within the individual in relation to society as well as what is going on in small group interactions between themselves. What we find when we examine social psychology in Yankeedom is what you might suspect, and that is […]

  • Crowds, Masses and Movements

    Crowds, Masses and Movements

    Orientation Why study crowds, masses and movements? It is tempting to imagine that as socialists we must know a great deal about crowds, masses, and in medieval thought individual meant inseparable, that is indivisible. People were defined as individuals by reference to the groups of which they were members. Group membership defined their very identity […]

  • Coming to Terms with a Lifetime of Trauma While in Prison

    I am a Black man in prison, and I want to talk about trauma. I want us all to be able to talk about trauma. I’m here because when I was a teenager and young man, I made many bad life choices involving drugs and violence. Living with the consequences of my actions is not […]

  • Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves, Part I

    Collectivist, Individualist and Communist Selves, Part I

    Medieval alchemist working in his laboratory Orientation Preliminary social psychology questions and answers People’s identity can be made sense of as existing in the cross-fire between our biological, psychological and social lives. This helps us to understand the differences between someone’s temperament, personality and self. Among social psychologists such as George Herbert Mead, the species […]

  • The Science of Superstition Part II

    The Science of Superstition Part II

    Summary of Part I In Part I of this 2-part article, I began by listing the typical superstitious behavior college students engage in before taking a test. I identified the conditions of superstition, what superstition is and then added the range of its scope. My piece is about socially shared and personal superstitions rather than […]

  • Breaking Bread at the Terminus of Learning

    Let this be a lesson to you students.  You are now coming to the end of another semester, arbitrarily designated as having an even number of weeks, crammed with a range of objectives that no doubt most of you have not met.  For one thing, you did not read.  But my, did one try to […]

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