Portal:Psychology

The Psychology Portal Psychology is the study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social sciences. Biological psychologists seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, linking the discipline to neuroscience. As social scientists, psychologists aim to understand the behavior of individuals and groups. A professional practitioner or researcher involved in the discipline is called a psychologist. Some psychologists can also be classified as behavioral or cognitive scientists. Some psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior. Others explore the physiological and neurobiological processes that underlie cognitive functions and behaviors. Psychologists are involved in research on perception, cognition, attention, emotion, intelligence, subjective experiences, motivation, brain functioning, and personality. Psychologists' interests extend to interpersonal relationships, psychological resilience, family resilience, and other areas within social psychology. They also consider the unconscious mind. Research psychologists employ empirical methods to infer causal and correlational relationships between psychosocial variables. Some, but not all, clinical and counseling psychologists rely on symbolic interpretation. (Full article...) Selected article - Le Suicidé by Édouard Manet Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cognitive disengagement syndrome), physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome), and substance abuse (including alcoholism and the use of and withdrawal from benzodiazepines) are risk factors. Some suicides are impulsive acts due to stress (such as from financial or academic difficulties), relationship problems (such as breakups or divorces), or harassment and bullying. Those who have previously attempted suicide are at a higher risk for future attempts. Effective suicide prevention efforts include limiting access to methods of suicide such as firearms, drugs, and poisons; treating mental disorders and substance abuse; careful media reporting about suicide; improving economic conditions; and dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). Although crisis hotlines are common resources, their effectiveness has not been well studied. The most commonly adopted method of suicide varies from country to country and is partly related to the availability of effective means. Common methods of suicide include hanging, pesticide poisoning, and firearms. Suicides resulted in 828,000 deaths globally in 2015, an increase from 712,000 deaths in 1990. This makes suicide the 10th leading cause of death worldwide. (Full article...) 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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." — William James WikiProjects The following WikiProjects work to improve the quality and scope of articles related to psychology. Please join us at any of them. Psychology • Psychiatry • Neuroscience Selected biography - Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (/ˈsɒrən ˈkɪərkəɡɑːrd/ SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also /-ɡɔːr/ -⁠gor, Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ⓘ; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christianity, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment. He was against literary critics who defined idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, and thought that Swedenborg, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schlegel, and Hans Christian Andersen were all "understood" far too quickly by "scholars." Kierkegaard's theological work focuses on Christian ethics, the institution of the Church, the differences between purely objective proofs of Christianity, the infinite qualitative distinction between man and God, and the individual's subjective relationship to the God-Man Jesus the Christ, which came through faith. Much of his work deals with Christian love. He was extremely critical of the doctrine and practice of Christianity as a state-controlled religion (Caesaropapism) like the Church of Denmark. His psychological work explored the emotions and feelings of individuals when faced with life choices. Opposite Jean-Paul Sartre and the atheistic existentialism paradigm, Kierkegaard focused on Christian existentialism. (Full article...) List of selected biographies William James Carl Jung B. F. Skinner Albert Ellis Carl Rogers John B. Watson Sigmund Freud Jean Piaget John Dewey Wilhelm Reich George M. Stratton Steven Pinker George Armitage Miller Erving Goffman Solomon Asch Bloeme Evers-Emden William Tuke Jessie Murray Christine Blasey Ford Elmer Ernest Southard John Bowlby Karen Horney Jacques Lacan Hans Eysenck Francis Galton Clark L. Hull Gustav Fechner Harry Harlow Herbert A. Simon Edwin Boring Arthur Jensen Viktor Frankl Jordan Peterson John Money Dolf Zillmann Edna Frances Heidbreder Victor Skumin Philip Zimbardo Margaret Singer Nancy Bayley J. Philippe Rushton W. H. R. Rivers Jennifer Eberhardt Aron K. Barbey Donata Francescato Brenda Milner Salvator Cupcea Mary Whiton Calkins Margaret Lowenfeld Ernest Jones Ethel Dench Puffer Howes Robert Kegan Thom Hartmann Virginia Satir Phyllis Chesler Did you know (auto-generated) - ... that award winner Lillian Comas-Díaz became interested in psychology after consoling classmates recovering from a destructive hurricane? ... that when María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza was appointed to lead the psychology department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she proposed a "zero tolerance" policy for gender violence? ... that psychologist Janis Sanchez-Hucles was only the second person of color to earn a PhD in psychology from the University of North Carolina? ... that bereavement support groups are one of the most common services offered for grief but have little evidence of improving psychological outcomes? ... that Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Rawlins proposed that the Rhodesian Army employ witchdoctors as psychological warfare during the Rhodesian Bush War? ... that the reactions to food depicted in the manga series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma were decided on through free association games? 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More did you know facts Psychology topics Recognized content Extended content Featured articles Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart Birthday-number effect Confirmation bias Everywhere at the End of Time Getting It: The Psychology of est I Never Liked You Mathew Charles Lamb Major depressive disorder Jessie Murray Name-letter effect Nominative determinism William S. Sadler Schizophrenia Taare Zameen Par Torture Tourette syndrome Cherry Valentine Well he would, wouldn't he? Former featured articles Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act Asperger syndrome Attachment theory Autostereogram Noam Chomsky Conatus Digital media use and mental health Down syndrome Michel Foucault Frankfurt School Gender role L. Ron Hubbard Søren Kierkegaard Milgram experiment Military brat (U.S. subculture) MKUltra Parapsychology Parkinson's disease Philosophy of mind Prisoner's dilemma Psychosis Reactive attachment disorder Stuttering Featured lists List of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine List of stutterers Former featured lists Royal Medal Good articles 1950s American automobile culture Alcoholism Animal testing Solomon Asch Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Averroes's theory of the unity of the intellect BabyFirst Barnum effect Beck Depression Inventory Beck–Fahrner syndrome Before the Dawn (Wade book) Behavioural genetics Being You: A New Science of Consciousness Body image disturbance The Book of est Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control Brian Wilson is a genius Involuntary hospitalization of Joyce Brown Elizabeth Casson Seung-Hui Cho Noam Chomsky Tory Christman Cognitive flexibility Cognitive inertia Conscience Consciousness Declarative knowledge Delayed gratification Denomination effect Depression Quest Down syndrome The dress Dunning–Kruger effect Dyslexia Education Educationally subnormal Embodied cognition Jo Ann Evansgardner Bloeme Evers-Emden The finger Christine Blasey Ford Free Expression Policy Project Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Elisabeth Geleerd Genes, Brain and Behavior Erving Goffman Paul Goodman Irving Gottesman Hard–easy effect Hedonic hunger Help at Any Cost IQ classification Averroes Illusory truth effect Imprinted brain hypothesis Incel Insanity in English law Intrapersonal communication Joint attention Lisa Kahn (poet) Kin selection Varia Kipiani Kirkbride Plan Knowledge Lafargue Clinic Eugene Landy Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development Liber physiognomiae Magnetic resonance imaging Maternal deprivation Margaret McFarland Metallic Metals Act George Armitage Miller Misanthropy Motivation crowding theory Motivation Yūjirō Motora Native American mascot controversy Neurolinguistics The Nightmare Not in Front of the Children Object permanence Outrageous Betrayal Ovulatory shift hypothesis Pathlight School Persecutory delusion Philosophical Essays on Freud Steven Pinker Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union Positioning theory Psychedelic music Psychodrama The Psychology of The Simpsons Wilhelm Reich Requiem for a Dream Retrieval-induced forgetting The Road to Total Freedom Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra Cher Scarlett School belonging Schramm's model of communication Seductive details Self-harm Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy Sleep hygiene Social identity theory Social heuristics Source–message–channel–receiver model of communication Elmer Ernest Southard Pamela Stephenson Stereotype threat George M. Stratton Suicide TM and Cult Mania Team effectiveness Think of the children Andre Thomas Thought broadcasting Tim Watson-Munro William Tuke Veterans benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder in the United States Vocabulary development Werner Erhard (book) Former good articles Affordable Care Act Anger Appeal to consequences Attachment disorder Attachment therapy Marian Breland Bailey A Beautiful Mind (film) Behavioral economics Bipolar disorder Borderline personality disorder Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Clinical psychology Conversion therapy Culture Education in the United States Educational psychology Emergency psychiatry Female hysteria Sigmund Freud Idit Harel Homosexuality Ideasthesia Intelligence Large-group awareness training Lucid dream Mental status examination Moral blindness Munchausen by Internet Nonviolent Communication Psychoactive drug Psychotherapy Pyromania Rape during the Rwandan genocide Retrocausality School counselor Skeptic's Toolbox B. F. Skinner Smoking Social anxiety disorder Sociology Stanford prison experiment Ultimatum game Witchcraft Benjamin D. Wood Did you know? articles 1950s American automobile culture Kristian Birch-Reichenwald Aars Ablative brain surgery Accountability partner Acquired homosexuality Action bias Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Affect labeling Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act Altered level of consciousness Amafufunyana Amusement Anatomy of an Epidemic Angels Ain't Listening Anosognosia Laverne Antrobus Archuleta v. Hedrick Art and emotion Solomon Asch Aspergirls Norma Cox Astwood Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart Atlantis (commune) Attention theft Attitude polarization Autism Cymru Autism Is a World Autism: The Musical Averroes's theory of the unity of the intellect Awe Susan Bailey Lotte Bailyn Robert A. Baker Bird Thomas Baldwin Bambi effect Bangsian fantasy Bankes's Horse Henri-Étienne Beaunis Beck–Fahrner syndrome Helen Bee Before the Dawn (Wade book) Bengali nationalism Bereavement group Joanne Berger-Sweeney Donald N. Bersoff Ion Biberi Biderman's Chart of Coercion Big-fish–little-pond effect Sidney W. Bijou Harold Clyde Bingham Biosocial criminology Death of Orville Blackwood Susana Bloch Claudia Blum Body image disturbance Body schema Kenneth A. Bollen The Book of est Lisa Bortolotti Helen Boyle Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control Breaching experiment Sabina Brennan Brian Wilson is a genius A Bright Red Scream Broadmoor Hospital William A. F. Browne Brian Butterworth Candle problem Alexander Cannon (psychiatrist) Mary Cannon James Cantor Capital Jury Project Caring in intimate relationships Harvey A. 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Farley Fashion psychology Fear of bees The finger First impression (psychology) Susan Folkman Food psychology Forensic developmental psychology Form constant Foucha v. Louisiana Frendak v. United States Sophie Freud Herbert Freudenberger Frog pond effect Frown Hans G. Furth Gaman (term) Cynthia García Coll The Gaslight Effect Elisabeth Geleerd Gender dysphoria Gender dysphoria in children Gender roles in non-heterosexual communities Genes, Brain and Behavior Genetic Studies of Genius Genopolitics Getting It: The Psychology of est Lydia Giberson Thomas Gilovich Girl soldiers Jean Berko Gleason Global precedence Gloom Włodzimierz Godłowski Irving Gottesman Grandiose delusions William T. Greenough Gudjonsson suggestibility scale Gullibility William A. Hammond Tsuruko Haraguchi Chris Hatcher (psychologist) Health effects from noise Help at Any Cost Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me Herman's Head Antonín Heveroch History of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom Lorna Hodgkinson Harriet Holter Homework in psychotherapy Homosexuals Anonymous How Not to Be a Boy E. Graham Howe Human female sexuality Humor styles Hypoalgesic effect of swearing I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional IQ classification Averroes Illusion of explanatory depth Illusion of transparency Immigrant paradox in the United States Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence Implicit bias training Implicit learning Implicit personality theory Imprinted brain hypothesis Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world Insanity in English law Institutional syndrome Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage Intelligent disobedience Intergroup relations International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day Intrapersonal communication Irlen syndrome Jackson v. 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Meltzoff Memory and trauma Neva Milicic Müller Misanthropy Misinformation effect Alexander Mitscherlich (psychologist) Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen Murder of Michele LeAnn Morgan Motivation crowding theory Motivation Motor theory of speech perception Muhamed (horse) List of multilingual presidents of the United States Munchausen by Internet National Institute of Mentally Handicapped National trauma The Nature of Prejudice Angela Neal-Barnett Negativity bias John Neulinger Neural synchrony Neurobiological origins of language New England Institute of Religious Research Mildred Newman Nice guy The Nightmare Nobel Prize effect Normal People Scare Me Nudge (book) Numerosity adaptation effect Marie Nyswander Karolina Olsson Oneirocritica Ophidiophobia Orality John Ordronaux (doctor) Maressa Orzack Overchoice Maria Ovsiankina Ovulatory shift hypothesis P50 (neuroscience) PAD emotional state model PSYCHLOPS Pandemonium architecture Sergei Pankejeff The Paradox of Choice Paraphrenia Parasocial interaction Parent management training Parental brain Parten's stages of play Pavlovian-instrumental transfer Pediatric Symptom Checklist Perry v. Louisiana Perspective-taking Paula R. Pietromonaco Political cognition N. Porsenna Positioning theory Prairie madness Praise Principles of learning Herschel Prins Processing fluency Processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure The Program (novel) Proxemics Pseudodementia Psychology in the medieval Islamic world The Psychology of The Simpsons Psychology of eating meat Psychology of music preference Psychopathic Personality Inventory Puppy pregnancy syndrome Renee Rabinowitz Mihai Ralea Rape during the Rwandan genocide Rape during the Vietnam War Rape in Belgium Rape in Germany Rape in Pakistan Rapid automatized naming Rating scales for depression Raven (book) Pamela Trotman Reid Rennie v. Klein Representational momentum Retrieval-induced forgetting Reward dependence Jennifer Richeson Riggins v. Nevada Ring theory (psychology) Rivalry The Road to Total Freedom Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele Mark Rosenzweig (psychologist) Julian Rotter Rouge test Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism Safety behaviors (anxiety) St David's Hospital, Carmarthen Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra Janis Sanchez-Hucles Satanic panic (South Africa) Karen Saywitz Cher Scarlett Scattershot (book) School belonging Schramm's model of communication The Scout Mindset Second Chance Program Seductive details Self-Efficacy (book) Self-embedding Self-fulfillment Sell v. United States Settled insanity Sexual anhedonia Sexuality of Jesus Eldar Shafir Simmelian tie Sleep hygiene Sleep state misperception Sleep cycle Sleep in animals Smile mask syndrome May Smith (psychologist) Smoking Social Foundations of Thought and Action Social Interaction Anxiety Scale Social buffering Social connection Social emotional development Social inertia Social preferences Social projection Sociology of the Internet Stephen Soldz Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind Sonic deception Source–message–channel–receiver model of communication Speech repetition Elizabeth Spelke Spring Grove Experiment Staircase model Stanford marshmallow experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment (film) State-dependent memory Florian Ștefănescu-Goangă Pamela Stephenson Jane Sterk Sterling Institute of Relationship Storybook Dads Student development theories Student engagement Stuttering therapy Subpersonality Suicide in Greenland Suicide in the United Kingdom Sumud Kaarina Suonio Swimming with dolphins Tail chasing Tampo Taphophobia Telescoping effect Texas Psychological Association Tim Watson-Munro Time to Change (mental health campaign) Timothy's Law Toilet paper orientation Toilet training Tone variator Too Much and Never Enough Torture Trier social stress test Twisted Scriptures Two-streams hypothesis Ultimate issue Uncertainty effect Marion Underwood Unitary psychosis United States v. 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