History of Mental Health 101: Stigmatization of Mental Health
Foreword History of Mental Health 101 is a set of articles that reviews the history of mental health from a sociological perspective:...
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Dinka Hernández Avilés
- Mar 21, 2022
- 5 min
Developmental Psychology Theories 101: Childhood Part II
Bronfenbrenner proposes an ecological system theory of human development, where the different contexts we participate in influence us.
Dinka Hernández Avilés
- Mar 16, 2022
- 6 min
I Have a Dream: Passions as the Engine of Political Action
The following article uses the work of Descartes and Aristotle to analyse Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech.
Giulia Domiziana Toffoli
- Mar 13, 2022
- 6 min
Cognitive Philosophy 101: Can We Read Minds?
The hotly debated concept of "mind reading" in Cognitive Psychology and Philosophy is discussed.
Dinka Hernández Avilés
- Mar 12, 2022
- 6 min
Developmental Psychology Theories 101: Childhood Part I
Baltes & Smith propose a life-span approach in Developmental Psychology, based on a non-linear-multidimensional conception of development.
Melis Güven
- Mar 4, 2022
- 4 min
Attachment Patterns of Parenting
Figure 1 Understanding how attachments affect the psychological development of a child widens parents’ self-awareness to build an...
Irina Berdzenishvili
- Mar 1, 2022
- 5 min
Personal Identity 101: Identity Problems: Am I Good Enough?
Foreword Personal identity 101 was designed as an independent series of articles around the topic of identity and self. It joins various...
Elsa Abdallah
- Feb 13, 2022
- 5 min
From Feminine to Fatal: A Feminist Approach to Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”
Throughout the years, women have been overpowered, oppressed and silenced. The act of “angel of the house” was the personae that women...
Sam Ridgeway
- Dec 17, 2021
- 6 min
Russian Blues: Can Words Unlock Our Brains?
In 2007, Winawer and colleagues published evidence that Russians do not see the world as the rest of us do. Feel free to add your own...
Sam Ridgeway
- Dec 5, 2021
- 5 min
Experimental Psychology : Out of Your Mind
Proponents such as John B. Watson argued that an experimental focus on behaviour would allow psychology to be respected as a natural...
Alicia Macías Recio
- Nov 26, 2021
- 7 min
Visual Literacy 101: Manipulation through Images
An analysis of how mass culture interprets and intervenes in brain plasticity modifying collective's opinions and imageries
Gaelle Abou Nasr
- Nov 10, 2021
- 7 min
Freud’s Psychoanalytical Approach and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
An analysis of Hamlet's characters through a psychoanalytical lens.
Styliani Motsiou
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
The One Thing the World Would be Better off Without
There is a sad truth in this world that no human being has ever been spared bitterness in life. It comes and manifests upon us...
Alicia Macías Recio
- Oct 24, 2021
- 4 min
D'Amore si Vive: A Retrospective of Childhood as the Climax of Intelligence
Still from D’amore si vive (Silvano Agosti – Director, 1984) One lives by love. This first sentence cannot but suggest the interest of...
elormroseline
- Oct 24, 2021
- 5 min
Consciousness: What Do we Mean?
The term ‘consciousness’ is one of the most evoked concepts in the history of mankind. Today, it is consciousness, but centuries back it...
Gaelle Abou Nasr
- Oct 24, 2021
- 6 min
Sadomasochism in Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts"
Sadism and Masochism in the characters of Henrik Ibsen's ghost, analyzing them through a psychoanalytical lens.
Alicia Macías Recio
- Oct 22, 2021
- 6 min
Visual Literacy 101 — Where the Necessity Begins: Examples and Contextualisation
Foreword Visual Literacy 101 articles serve as one of the academic courses in this precise field. The main aim of this research is to...
Sam Ridgeway
- Oct 13, 2021
- 7 min
You Will Obey, Won't You?
In part one we talked about Stanley Milgram’s infamous obedience to authority experiments. Milgram claimed to have revealed a “darker...
Umut Açıkgöz
- Oct 4, 2021
- 4 min
Fear: A Bottomless Pit
“Best safety lies in fear.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet What a messy being a person is. Even the person himself, acting with emotions,...
Sam Ridgeway
- Oct 1, 2021
- 6 min
Experimental Psychology : No Such Thing as Bad Behaviour
Black box. A machine, device, or system whose inner workings are unknown. Its inputs and outputs can be seen, but the moment and method...
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