Category: Psychology

  • Common Sense Versus Psychology: Explained With Examples

    Psychology and Common Sense: Psychology can be understood as the science of human behaviour that seeks to understand how human beings feel, perceive, think, learn, interact and understand themselves and the world around them. It is a science that studies observable and measurable human behaviour and also the human mind, both the conscious and the…

  • Queer Affirmative Therapy: Origin, Need and Practice

    This article discusses the practice of queer affirmative therapy and its importance. Queer people go through unique challenges because of the heteronormative standards of society and therapeutic practices that acknowledge and help them with these challenges are vital. History of the LGBTQ+ community and psychology Psychology has a complicated relationship with the queer community. The…

  • Sudhir Kakar: Biography and Contributions to Psychology

    Biography: Sudhir Kakar is an Indian psychoanalyst, novelist and scholar who specializes in the fields of cultural psychology, psychoanalysis and religion. Kakar belongs to the psychoanalytic school of thought, based on the work of Sigmund Freud, which posits that all manifestations of behaviour are determined by latent (hidden) causations, placing heavy emphasis on the unconscious….

  • Peace Psychology: History, Four-fold Models, Conflict resolution

    Synopsis: Peace psychology emerged in the latter half of the 20th century, calling for a discipline that observed the dynamics of peace, war, violence, and non-violence in society. Apart from observing the manifestations of peace and war, peace psychologists concern themselves with constructing models of conflict resolution at macro and micro levels. This article looks…

  • Environmental Psychology: Origin, Theories, Scope, Applications

    Synopsis: Environmental psychology is a branch of psychology that mainly deals with the interface between human behaviour and the sociophysical environment. It can be defined as the study of transactions between individuals and their physical settings during which individuals change the environment, and their behaviour and experiences are also changed by the environment. In this…

  • Thinking like a psychologist: Importance of the scientific method

    Thinking in psychology can be defined as “the cognitive behavior in which ideas, images, mental representations, or other hypothetical elements of thought are experienced or manipulated.” Thinking includes imagining, remembering, problem solving, concept formation, and many other processes. Thinking may be said to have two defining characteristics: It is covert and not directly observable but…

  • What is Thinking in Psychology? 7 Different Types of Thinking

    The APA Dictionary of Psychology defines thinking as “cognitive behaviour in which ideas, images, mental representations and other such hypothetical elements of thought are experienced or manipulated.” Thinking is both a covert and a symbolic process that allows us to form psychological associations and create models to understand the world. It is considered a covert…