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Nature VS Nurture Theories of Personality in 21st Century
Nature vs Nurture theories have wasted a lot of energy of human beings. Plato is considered first to realize that you are made of not only flesh but also an intellectual soul.
The issue may be much older…
In Greek Mythology, when gods created man, they endowed him with divinity. However, the man started challenging them. They feared his potentials and decided to deprive him of the might.
article tags: nature vs nurture debate, nature vs nurture theory, nature vs nurture theories, nature vs nurture psychology, saqib ali ateel
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The Differences Between A Good Liar And A Great Liar: Using Eye Aversion And Amplification
You can tell a lot about how a person feels about you from the amount and kind of eye contact they give you during conversation. Noticing very little eye contact may suggest they’re feeling bored. While a heavy, unbroken gaze can bring about intense feelings of attraction, or even love.
article tags: polygraph, lie, liar, lying, body language
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MMPI-II Test
The MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), composed by Hathaway (a psychologist) and McKinley (a physician) is the outcome of decades of research into personality disorders. The revised version, the MMPI-II (also known as MMPI-2), was published in 1989 but was received cautiously. MMPI-II changed the scoring method and some of the normative data.
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Help Kids Concentrate
All of us want our children to succeed in school. But for many kids and teens, concentration in this always-pressured, starved-for-time era can be difficult. Here are some tips for helping your son or daughter improve concentration and do better in the classroom:
* Take time for breakfast. Children who have breakfast and enough to eat during the rest of the day will be better able to concentrate in school, according to Head Start, the national child development program run by the Department of Health and Human Services.
article tags: tips to help kids concentrate in class
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Avoidant Personality Disorder
People suffering from the Avoidant Personality Disorder feel inadequate, unworthy, inferior, and lacking in self-confidence. As a result, they are shy and socially inhibited. Aware of their real (and, often, imagined) shortcomings, they are constantly on the lookout, are hypervigilant and hypersensitive. Even the slightest, most constructive and well-meant or helpful criticism and disagreement are perceived as complete rejection, ridicule, and shaming.
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The World's Greatest Lie...
"Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man.
"What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.
The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."
(An excerpt from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
article tags: happiness, dreams, destiny, fate, journey, goals, spirit, purpose, wisdom, greatness, success
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Cluster B Personality Disorders
The DSM-IV-TR (2000) defines a personality disorder as:
"An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations the individuals culture (and is manifested in two or more of his or her areas of mental life:) cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, or impulse control."
Such a pattern is rigid, long-term (stable), and recurrent.
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Discover the Secrets of Personality Type
Have you ever wondered why your spouse, coworkers, or children seem to think so differently from you? You may not understand why they make the decisions they do, or why they place such importance on things that seem inconsequential to you. It is possible to understand the answers to all these questions. The secret lies in the theory of Myers-Briggs personality type.
article tags: personality type, personality test, myers-briggs, mbti
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Highly Sensitive People - Traits and Characteristics
One in every twenty people is considered to be a highly sensitive person (HSP). This means that either you yourself may be sensitive or someone you know is. 42% of the population is not highly sensitive, meaning that most things don't bother them the way they will an HSP. Everyone else falls somewhere in between, with the odd few being completely unemotional about anything.
article tags: highly sensitive people, persons, hsp, being too sensitive, shy, timid, introverted
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) - Pros and Cons
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM-IV-TR, Washington, 2000] - or the DSM-IV-TR for short - describes Axis II personality disorders as "deeply ingrained, maladaptive, lifelong behavior patterns". But the classificatory model the DSM has been using since 1952 is harshly criticized as woefully inadequate by many scholars and practitioners.
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Authenticity in Action
We are drawn to people who are being authentically themselves, even when we can see their faults. There is something very appealing about someone who is true to who they are, rather than altering their behavior to suit others. What are the characteristics of an authentic person, and what can we do to be more authentically ourselves?
article tags: authenticity, being authentic
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How to Be Fearless
What is fear?
When we were studying emotional imbalances in school, my professor, said fear is an acronym called F.E.A.R. It means a False Estimation Appearing as Real.
We project into the environment our feeling of insecurity and see in it dangers to our well-being. Yet the reality out there has too many variables for us to predict it. Thus, all our anticipations are based on our insecurity, rather than a sudden clairvoyance.
With the proper mindset, determination, and will power, you can conquer your fear.
article tags: fears, phobias, fearless
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Diagnosing Personality Disorders
Personality traits are enduring, usually rigid patterns of behavior, thinking (cognition), and emoting expressed in a variety of circumstances and situations and throughout one's life (typically from early adolescence onward). Some personality traits are harmful to both oneself and to others. These are the dysfunctional traits. Often they cause discomfort and the person bearing these traits is unhappy and self-critical.
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Energy Enhancement And VITRIOL - The First Formula Of Alchemy and the Removal of Fear.
VITRIOL is the First Formula of Alchemy - the hidden meaning of VITRIOL is a guided meditation which gives the hidden Meditational meaning of the Philosophers Stone.
article tags: jung, alchemy, golden flower, meditation, vitriol, hermes, trismegitus, tao
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A Brief History of Hypnosis
Evidence of hypnotic-like phenomena appears in many ancient cultures. The writer of Genesis seems familiar with the anaesthetic power of hypnosis when he reports that God put Adam "into a deep sleep" to take his rib to form Eve. Other ancient records suggest hypnosis was used by the oracle at Delphi and in rites in ancient Egypt (Hughes and Rothovius, 1996).
article tags: hypnosis, hypnotherapy, nlp
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Personality Testing; Myth and Realities
It is commonly believed myth that personality testing instruments can measure your personality and predict your future behaviors. The pre-employment testing mechanism has been following this creed without any solid evidence. The testing industry claims all out validity. The educational institutions and employer organizations use them for screening purposes.
article tags: personality psychology, personality testing, personality theories, personality theory, what’s your personality, personality characteristics, psychometrics
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How to Quickly and Easily Lower Anxiety
Anxiety as a normal reality of life
article tags: anxiety disorder, anxiety medication, agoraphobia, social phobia, panic disorder, social anxiety
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The Construct of Normal Personality
Personality disorders are dysfunctions of our whole identity, tears in the fabric of who we are. They are all-pervasive because our personality is ubiquitous and permeates each and every one of our mental cells. I just published the first article in this topic titled "What is Personality?". Read it to understand the subtle differences between "personality", "character", and "temperament".
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How to Experience a Lucid Dream
Lucid dreaming means dreaming while you know that you are dreaming. The term was coined by Frederik van Eeden who used the word "lucid" in the sense of mental clarity. With practice nearly anyone can experience lucid dreams.
Lucidity is not the same as dream control. It is possible to be lucid and have little control over the dream. However, becoming lucid in a dream is likely to increase your ability to deliberately influence the events within the dream.
article tags: dream, dreaming, lucid, prophetic, symbols, meaning, what, do, dreams, why, have, future
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Comfort Shoes vs. Stylish Shoes
Shoes are made specially s a protection for our feet. Not only they keep us from sickness, it will also be able to make us look good. The choice of shoes whether on design or quality, depends on the owner.
article tags: shoes, man shoes, womam shoes
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The Senses of Soul
Have you ever had a sense that there is more to something than what appears on the surface? As a child, you may have walked by a pond and picked up a pebble. Then, energy grew inside you directing your mind to send signals within you and pick up this rock with your hand. As your mind, body, and spirit united, a coordinated effort took place resulting in a thrust of energy tossing this rock into this pond.
article tags: soul, spirit, death, dying, resources, books
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Energy Enhancement Meditation and the Psychology of Ego Strategies of the Aloof and the Poor Me.
As Gurdjieff said, "The personality that says It will get up early in the morning is not the same personality who throws the alarm clock out of the window!!." This is the psychology of the split personality!
article tags: energy enhancement, meditation, psychology, ego strategies, aloof, poor me
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The 3 Reasons We Fail To Spot Lies
Most people lie every now and then, usually just to make day to day life easier to live. On the most part, and thankfully, the majority of people choose only to tell white lies – statements that avoid or twist the truth in a deliberate but always well-intentioned manner.
article tags: lies, lying, liar, body language
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The Heart of Grief
Hospice patients come to our care after being cut, burned, and poisoned. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment are the normative methods of care for most of the patients who enter a life-threatening disease. Hospital staff members are trained to be aggressive about curative care.
Hospice care is a phase of care whereby aggressive treatment is no longer appropriate.
article tags: hospice, death, dying, books, palliative care
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Preventing Future Violence
Understanding the development of violence allows us to not only predict, but prevent future acts of violence. Services must be provided as early in the cycle as possible.
article tags: violence, youth violence, prevention, treatment, risk, assessment, offending, care, savry, pcl-yv
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