February 25th was a very special day, for it was the day the first article was posted on GenerallyThinking.com! Since then, I’ve made 110 posts to the site including this one, and the majority are in-depth, 1,000 word+ articles rather than single-serving internet distractions. The blog is now reasonably popular and attracts over 10,000 unique [ Read More ]
Archive for February, 2010
A great tip I found at 200 Words a Day is to use flashcards. You take index cards, and have the Spanish word on one side, the English translation on the other. Then you go through the cards, testing yourself either from Spanish to English or English to Spanish as you prefer. Here’s how to [ Read More ]
Categories: Uncategorized
Psychological ‘resilience’ refers to the differences between people in how they respond to and cope with difficult or stressful experiences. People who are highly resilient would be less affected, recover more quickly, and/or might actually find such events to be growth experiences. For people low in resilience, the opposite would be true. Now here’s …
Categories: Positive Psychology, Self-Help
Welcome to the seventh edition of the Psychology Articles Carnival! The Psychology Articles Carnival, predictably enough, is a blog carnival showcasing posts relating to scientific psychology from the previous month. Often they will be articles I’ve come across and want to tell you about, but psychology bloggers are free to submit their own articles for [ Read More ]
Categories: Psychology
One of the more interesting of our (many) cognitive biases are positive illusions – a tendency to be view ourselves more positively than others, be optimistic about the future, and exaggerate our perceptions of control. Positive illusions are typically self-enhancing, but if you’ve ever seen a madly in love couple, or been a part of one, you [ Read More ]
A lot of people get the idea that they’d like to study psychology. Usually they have a curiosity about people combined with something they saw on TV, maybe a documentary that piqued their interest, or maybe something like Wire in the Blood. But many of these people have jobs and other commitments, and …
Categories: Psychology
Around February, we get suddenly bombarded by the Valentine’s day promotional activities. Conversation topics move to relationships, Valentine’s cards, and potential secret admirers. You might make the prediction, that all this in-your-face love might make the average single person more likely to step up their efforts to find that special someone, perhaps even …
Categories: Psychology of Dating and Relationships
I had to write a piece on love as part of my positive psychology course, and as a die-hard bachelor, I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it. But, as I looked into the research on love, I found it to be a fascinating area of research. Maybe, deep down, I’m just an old …
Categories: Psychology of Dating and Relationships
I admit, this has nothing to do with psychology whatsoever, it’s just one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen! Although it’s interesting how it’s targeted at men by appearing to be targeted to women. The new Old Spice ad – The man your man could smell like! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE]
Categories: Humour
Bob Sternberg is a pretty prolific guy in psychology. Among many other topics, he’s studied intelligence, thinking styles, leadership, and he currently holds 10 honorary doctorates. Below I present a quick overview of Sternberg’s triangular theory of love. In Sternberg’s theory, there are three main facets of love: Passion – this includes sexual excitement, feelings [ Read More ]
Categories: Featured Posts, Psychology of Dating and Relationships
