Explanatory style. Explanatory style is a psychological attribute that indicates how people explain to themselves why they experience a particular event, either positive or negative.
Psychologists have identified three components in explanatory style: Personal. (Internal vs. External.) This involves how one explains where the cause of an event arises. People who generally tend to blame themselves for negative events, believe that such events will continue indefinitely, and let such events affect many aspects of their lives display what is called a pessimistic explanatory style[citation needed]. Some research has linked a pessimistic explanatory style to depression[1] and physical illness.[2] The concept of explanatory style encompasses a wide range of possible responses to both positive and negative occurrences, rather than a black-white difference between optimism and pessimism. Attributional style effects[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Seligman, M. Further reading[edit] 10 Psychological Effects of Nonsexual Touch. A simple (nonsexual) touch can increase compliance, helping behaviour, attraction, and signal power. To get around in the world, we mainly rely on our eyes and ears.
Touch is a sense that’s often forgotten. But touch is also vital in the way we understand and experience the world. Even the lightest touch on the upper arm can influence the way we think. To prove it, here are 10 psychological effects which show just how powerful nonsexual touch can be. 1. A well-timed touch can encourage other people to return a lost item. In one experiment, users of a phone booth who were touched were more likely to return a lost dime to an experimenter (Kleinke, 1977). The action was no more than a light touch on the arm. People will do more than that though; people will give a bigger tip to a waitress who has touched them (Crusco & Wetzel, 1984).
(Stop giggling at the back there!) 2. People are also more likely to provide help when touched. The percentage of people who helped went up from 63% to 90%. Placebo Buttons & You Are Not So Smart. The Misconception: All buttons placed around you do your bidding.
The Truth: Many public buttons are only there to comfort you. You press the doorbell button, you hear the doorbell ring. You press the elevator button, it lights up. You press the button on the vending machine, a soft drink comes rattling down the chute. Your whole life, you’ve pressed buttons and been rewarded. The thing about buttons, though, is there seems to be some invisible magic taking place between the moment you press them down and when you get the expected result. Maybe there’s a man inside who pulls out the can of soda and puts it in the chute. You just don’t know, and that’s how conditioning works. The problem here is that some buttons in modern life don’t actually do anything at all. According to a 2008 article in the New Yorker, close buttons don’t close the elevator doors in many elevators built in the United States since the 1990s. Because We Need to Know: Sushi Etiquette - Food. Skinner on Campus.
Paradox of tolerance. The tolerance paradox arises from a problem that a tolerant person might be antagonistic toward intolerance, hence intolerant of it.
The tolerant individual would then be by definition intolerant of intolerance. Discussions[edit] Michael Walzer asks "Should we tolerate the intolerant? ". He notes that most minority religious groups who are the beneficiaries of tolerance are themselves intolerant, at least in some respects. In a tolerant regime, such people may learn to tolerate, or at least to behave "as if they possessed this virtue".[1] Philosopher Karl Popper asserted, in The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. 1, that we are warranted in refusing to tolerate intolerance. Homophily and intolerance[edit] This dilemma has been considered by Aguiar and Parravano in Tolerating the Intolerant: Homophily, Intolerance, and Segregation in Social Balanced Networks,[3] modeling a community of individuals whose relationships are governed by a modified form of the Heider balance theory.[4][5]
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Hunger. A group of girls in Haiti have their midday meal in a school partially destroyed by the earthquake in January 2010.
Copyright:WFP/Rein Skullerud How many hungry people are there in the world and where do most of them live? What effect does it have on their minds and bodies and what can we do to help them? Here is a list of 10 things about hunger that absolutely everyone should know. 1. 2.Rising food prices pushed an additional 44 million people into hunger between June 2010 and February 2011 when they soared to their highest level ever.