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The Meaning in Life: A Psychological Approach

May 20, 2022
10 min

The Meaning in Life: A Psychological Approach

Humans, by nature, ask questions about purpose in life and how to achieve its meaning while psychology, helps us to find an answer.

La Barbe Bleue: An Incitement to Femicide or Feminism?

Camille Borrelly

May 10, 2022
8 min

La Barbe Bleue: An Incitement to Femicide or Feminism?

La Barbe Bleue is a story first told by Charles Perrault in the 17th c. France. What does it tell us about the place of women in his time?

Advocacy in the Digital Age: Does Social Media Seek Change?

Mary Helen Brighton

May 7, 2022
4 min

Advocacy in the Digital Age: Does Social Media Seek Change?

This article explores the paths of social advocacy and human rights education that have drastically changed over the past 10 years.

Discourse in Life and Discourse in Art (on Sociological Poetics): Voloshinov

Dinka Hernández Avilés

May 6, 2022
5 min

Discourse in Life and Discourse in Art (on Sociological Poetics): Voloshinov

From Voloshinov’s work, this article shall provide a new way of evaluating linguistics from psychological and sociological field.

Cognitive Dissonance Theory on Customer Behaviour

Melis Güven

May 2, 2022
3 min

Cognitive Dissonance Theory on Customer Behaviour

The article analyzes the cognitive dissonance theory of Festinger and its relation to marketing.

Developmental Psychology Theories 101: Childhood Part III

Dinka Hernández Avilés

Apr 30, 2022
5 min

Developmental Psychology Theories 101: Childhood Part III

Sroufe proposes an attachment theory based on an emotional development approach, giving crucial importance at the part that dyads play.

Giulia Domiziana Toffoli

Apr 28, 2022
4 min

Hysteria as a Misogynistic Construct

Women are often accused of being hysterical. But what does hysteria mean, and why is it so often used as a derogatory female term?

Cognitive Philosophy 101: How Irrational is Rationality?

Giulia Domiziana Toffoli

Apr 25, 2022
6 min

Cognitive Philosophy 101: How Irrational is Rationality?

Recent studies show that there are more irrational elements in rational thought than previously supposed.

Am I Actually Free? An Approach Based on Gilles Lipovetsky’s The Empire of Fashion

Dinka Hernández Avilés

Apr 8, 2022
5 min

Am I Actually Free? An Approach Based on Gilles Lipovetsky’s The Empire of Fashion

Based on Lipovetsky's The Empire of Fashion theory, an approach on how this transcends and involves our conception of freedom.

History of Mental Health 101: Mental Health in an Unequal World

Irina Berdzenishvili

Apr 6, 2022
6 min

History of Mental Health 101: Mental Health in an Unequal World

Foreword History of Mental Health 101 is a set of articles that reviews the history of mental health from a sociological perspective:...

History of Mental Health 101: Stigmatization of Mental Health

Irina Berdzenishvili

Mar 28, 2022
6 min

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:...

Developmental Psychology Theories 101: Childhood Part II

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.

I Have a Dream: Passions as the Engine of Political Action

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.

Cognitive Philosophy 101: Can We Read Minds?

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.

Developmental Psychology Theories 101: Childhood Part I

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...

Personal Identity 101: Identity Problems: Am I Good Enough?

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...

From Feminine to Fatal: A Feminist Approach to Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”

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...

Russian Blues: Can Words Unlock Our Brains?

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...

Experimental Psychology : Out of Your Mind

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...