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Seb Potvin

The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment - 0 views

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numbers identity prison punishment imprisonment

shared by Seb Potvin on 06 Apr 13 - Cached
  • The use of ID numbers was a way to make prisoners feel anonymous. Each prisoner had to be called only by his ID number and could only refer to himself and the other prisoners by number.
    • Seb Potvin
      Seb Potvin on 06 Apr 13
       
      Prisonners where assigned a number. They where not called upon by their names but by their numbers and there heads where shaved to express equality amongst prisonners and loss on identity
Daryl Bambic

The two kinds of stories we tell about ourselves | - 0 views

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#twitter narrative

shared by Daryl Bambic on 14 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • Our identities and experiences are constantly shifting
  • disparate pieces of our lives and placing them together into a narrative, we create a unified whole that allows us to understand our lives as coherent — and coherence, psychologists say, is a key source of meaning
  • narrative identity as an internalized story you create about yourself
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  • divide their lives into chapters and to recount key scenes, such as a high point, a low point, a turning point or an early memory
  • interesting patterns
  • driven to contribute to society and to future generations, he found, are more likely to tell redemptive stories about their lives, or stories that transition from bad to good.
  • contamination story
  • less “generative,” or less driven to contribute to society and younger generations. They also tend to be more anxious and depressed
  • defined by growth, communion and agency.
  • edit, revise and interpret the stories we tell about our lives even as we are constrained by the facts
  • psychotherapist’s job is to work with patients to rewrite their stories in a more positive way.
  • this form of therapy is as effective as antidepressants or cognitive behavioral therapy.
Lauren Ganze

The Schizophrenic Artist - Kellevision - 0 views

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creativity artist schizophrenia psychology

shared by Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Schizophrenia.  I always remember his story when I hear of clients being "noncompliant" and refusing their psychiatric medications. 
  • This client tried m
  • any different psychiatric medications over the course of about two years
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  • But the medications were a problem.
    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12
       
      Aren't they supposed to help?
  • The client was a brilliant artist and this was a significant part of his identity. 
  • tranquilized his creativity.
  • conscious decision to stop taking his medications.
  • He had a great deal of difficulty tolerating crowds of people and noise.  But his art returned.
  • His art gave his life purpose and meaning
  • He lived to create and expressing himself artistically made the suffering in his mind bearable.
  • They valued his art and understood this was the price he paid to express it.
  • He expressed happiness at his decision to stop medications and delight at the return of his art and with it his identity and purpose as an artist.
  • noncompliant
    • Lauren Ganze
      Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12
       
      Seriously, who does that? He's happy, he has friends who understand him, and he survives perfectly fine
  • Lauren Ganze on 04 Apr 12
     
    a schizophrenic who refused to continue medication because it "tranquilized" his creativity
Daryl Bambic

Identity Status Theory (Marcia) at Learning Theories - 1 views

www.learning-theories.com/tity-status-theory-marcia.html

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    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 19 May 10
       
      Hey guys, this is good information for our project!
Seb Potvin

The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment - 0 views

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sleep punishment identity roles power embarassement

shared by Seb Potvin on 06 Apr 13 - Cached
  • At 2:30 A.M. the prisoners were rudely awakened from sleep by blasting whistles for the first of many "counts." The counts served the purpose of familiarizing the prisoners with their numbers (counts took place several times each shift and often at night). But more importantly, these events provided a regular occasion for the guards to exercise control over the prisoners
    • Seb Potvin
      Seb Potvin on 06 Apr 13
       
      Counts where used to show who was in charge and where also a sort of punishment because they had to wake at 2:30 am
courtney galli

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shared by courtney galli on 01 May 13 - No Cached
  • ideological totalism,
  • Cults can be identified by three characteristics: a charismatic leader who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose their power; a process I call coercive persuasion or thought reform; economic, sexual, and other exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling coterie.
  • milieu control: the control of all communication within a given environment. In such an environment individual autonomy becomes a threat to the group. There is an attempt to manage an individual's inner communication. Milieu control is maintained and expressed by intense group process, continuous psychological pressure, and isolation by geographical distance, unavailability of transportation, or even physical restraint. Often the group creates an increasingly intense sequence of events such as seminars, lectures and encounters which makes leaving extremely difficult, both physically and psychologically.
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  • Intense milieu control can contribute to a dramatic change of identity which I call doubling: the formation of a second self which lives side by side with the former one, often for a considerable time. When the milieu control is lifted, elements of the earlier self may be reasserted.
  • Three further aspects of ideological totalism are "sacred science," "loading of the language," and the principle of "doctrine over person."
  • Perhaps the most significant characteristic of totalistic movements is what I ca
  • Sacred science is important because a claim of being scientific is often needed to gain plausibility and influence in the modern age.
  • language
  • The principle of doctrine over person' is invoked when cult members sense a conflict between what they are experiencing and what dogma says they should experience.
  • The term loading the language' refers to literalism and a tendency to deify words or images.
  • l "dispensing of existence." Those who have not seen the light and embraced the truth are wedded to evil, tainted, and therefore in some sense, usually metaphorical, lack the right to exist.
  • That is one reason why a cult member threatened with being cast into outer darkness may experience a fear of extinction or collapse.
    • courtney galli
      courtney galli on 01 May 13
       
      History of the person
  • Totalism should always be considered within a specific historical context.
Chrissy Le

The Rules of Attraction in the Game of Love | LiveScience - 0 views

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rules attraction game love symmetry

shared by Chrissy Le on 15 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Symmetry equals sex
  • If every division were to go perfectly, the result would be a baby whose left and right sides are mirror images.
  • But nature doesn't work that way.
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  • men with higher degrees of symmetry enjoy more sexual partners than men of lower symmetry.
  • Both men and women rated symmetrical members of the opposite sex as more attractive and in better health than their less symmetrical counterparts. The differences can be just a few percent—perceivable though not necessarily noticeable.
  • "It makes sense to use symmetry variation in mate choice," said evolutionary biologist Randy Thornhill of the University of New Mexico. "If you choose a perfectly symmetrical partner and reproduce with them, your offspring will have a better chance of being symmetric and able to deal with perturbations."
  • Psychologist Devendra Singh of the University of Texas studied people's waist-to-hip ratio (WHR).
  • Women with a WHR of 0.7—indicating a waist significantly narrower than the hips—are most desirable to men.
  • 0.8 to 1.0 WHR in men is attractive to women, although having broad shoulders is more of a turn-on.
  • Where fat is deposited on the body is determined by sex hormones; testosterone in men and estrogen in women. If a woman produces the proper amount and mixture of estrogen, then her WHR will naturally fall into the desired range. The same goes for a male's testosterone.
  • "The idea is that beauty is conveying information about health and fertility, and we admire that,
  • Men's faces are shaped by testosterone, which helps develop a larger lower face and jaw and a prominent brow.
  • Research reported last month found women both smell and look more attractive to men at certain times of the month.
  • The rules of attraction, it turns out, seem sometimes to play out in our subconscious.
  • A 2002 study found women prefer the scent of men with genes somewhat similar to their own over the scent of nearly genetically identical or totally dissimilar men.
Daryl Bambic

11.4 Two Fundamental Human Motivations: Eating and Mating | Introduction to Psychology ... - 1 views

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shared by Daryl Bambic on 16 Feb 22 - No Cached
  • orexin, ghrelin, and leptin
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 16 Feb 22
       
      This is the key idea behind the KETO diet; eat very little sugar and carbs so the insulin levels drop and the body burns fat for energy.
  • interaction of the various systems that determine hunger creates a balance or homeostasis in which we eat when we are hungry and stop eating when we feel full.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 16 Feb 22
       
      Remember this is the DRIVE REDUCTION theory.
  • Western societies are based on a very thin body ideal,
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 16 Feb 22
       
      Meanwhile, in most African countries, women with larger bodies are desired and the thinner ones are seen as unhealthy.
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  • Obesity is a leading cause of death worldwide.
  • Exercise increases cardiovascular capacity, lowers blood pressure, and helps improve diabetes, joint flexibility, and muscle strength (American Heart Association, 1998). Exercise also slows the cognitive impairments that are associated with aging (Kramer, Erickson, & Colcombe, 2006).
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 16 Feb 22
       
      The book does not mention the important benefits of exercise for the brain at all ages,not just as we age.
  • Between 3% and 4% of men are gay, and between 1% and 2% of women are lesbian
  • The Canadian Psychological Association issued a policy statement in February 1982 endorsing the principle that there be no discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation for (a) recruitment; (b) hiring; (c) salary; (d) promotion rate; (e) fringe benefits; or (f) assignment of duties. The American Psychiatric Association no longer considers homosexuality to be a mental illness, although it did so until 1973.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 16 Feb 22
       
      This is a good example of sociological influences on the diagnosis and understanding of mental illness. This 'mental illness' was ousted from the DSM in 1973. You can read more here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4695779/
  • Areas of the hypothalamus are different in homosexual men, as well as in animals with homosexual tendencies
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 16 Feb 22
       
      It's the hypothalamus again!
  • Among male identical twins, 52% of those with a gay brother also reported homosexuality, whereas the rate in fraternal twins was just 22%
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 16 Feb 22
       
      This is an important fact that supports the role of biology in homosexuality.
  • In sum, while less than half of Canadian teens report having intercourse before age 18,
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 16 Feb 22
       
      This has changed - 55% of males and females have had sex by 18 yrs old. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2017/201706_NSFG.htm
  • Healthy Lives
  • Daryl Bambic on 16 Feb 22
     
    "sex"
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