Questions tagged [psychology]
Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviours.
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Comparing crimes: child sexual abuse = n * adult PTSD? Finite n? [on hold]
Somewhere I saw a comparison of the jail sentence times for hostage-taking during a bank heist to child sexual abuse.
But apart from this practical consideration, more fundamentally: I assume child ...
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Is it possible to make decisions without some kind of belief system? [on hold]
Normally when we talk about belief, we mean religious beliefs. But even the criticizers of religions have some kind of belief system. They base all their decisions on the premise of logic. Thats why I ...
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What kind of fallacy is this, if it is one? Are these personal attacks ad hominem?
If that's indeed a kind of fallacy or maybe multiple stacked (informal?) fallacies or some kind of a psychological bias.
Examples in which I sense a similar pattern which I'm trying to identify here:
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In mathematics , can't we say that the intuition of the original author of a true conjecture is the proof of it just indescribable on paper- pen
I think that when a person put on a true conjecture in mathematics (we have verified it to be true) ,proof must came in his mind in the form of what we called intuition. I mean if his saying is ...
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negative Oedipus complex
The following paragraph is from "Art and Psychoanalysis" by Maria Walsh. Is it referring to "the negative Oedipus complex"?
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The Oedipus conflict has to do with the boy child’s desire for the ...
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Did Freud really suggest translating the manifest into the latent to interpret it?
Is the bold section of the following text correct about Freud's hypothesis? Does it mean to use the manifest dream thoughts in order to find the meaning of the latent ones?
According to Derrida, ...
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What was the humanist conception of subject/object?
In the introduction to Aldo Rossi's Architecture of the city, Peter Eisenman writes:
'Whereas the humanist conception attempted an integration of subject and object, the modernist conception ...
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Definition of A Psychopath [closed]
This definition has arisen in an answer for a previous question in this community, so I very much need to know the definition specifications for the term, as I am confused at its foundation.
It is ...
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Does Søren Kierkegaard want people to never change?
I am currently reading a book called The Psychology Book ..the first chapters are talking about how psychology evolved from philosophy and they talked about Kierkegaard in a chapter called " Be that ...
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Does the typological psychology of the Republic apply to the characters in Symposium?
In the Republic, Plato lays out a psychological theory that includes a typology of polities and their corresponding citizens, which descend in order from Good to bad: Aristocracy, Timocracy, Oligarchy,...
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Can voluntary radical change of core beliefs be considered as a suicide from perspective of psychological continuity?
I understand psychological continuity as view that only preservation of psyche is important in determining if somebody survived or not. Like if my body, including the brain, is gradually replaced by ...
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Cause and Effect - Finished infinity [closed]
I have a question it's best if I give you an example right away.
Our universe has its limits. in terms of the effect or cause e.g. if we kill a human for some reason will also have the effect. I'm ...
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Can we measure “braverity” objectively?
By saying "bravery/courage", we implicitly mean a hard task that we wouldn't do it in daily life, and we have to sacrifice something to get it - we are scared. It is, after all, just a cost-benefit ...
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How can we be accountable if we are chemically programmed?
If we accept that neuro-chemistry largely explains cognitive function, deterministically, how can we be accountable? Not how or why can we be held accountable but how can we earnestly be in fact ...
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Has the other parts of the soul the ability to superpose its will on the mind?
I am working on an idea between the soul, and the mind; relating to the unconsciousness, and consciousness.
According to this article from the web it states that depression may very well be caused by ...
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How do Anscombe and Wittgenstein view psychology?
G. E. M. Anscombe wrote this at the beginning of Modern Moral Philosophy where she claimed that one should not do moral philosophy today:
...that should be laid aside at any rate until we have an ...
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Does following logic necessarily require one to conclude that they are objective and have no bias?
In social psychology, naïve realism is the human tendency to believe that we see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with us must be uninformed, irrational, or biased. It is ...
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Does Psychology benefit Philosophy?
This question got me thinking:
It is widely held that Philosophy precedes the Sciences, birthing them. and continue to inform them. It is also evident that there are times when science has informed ...
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Is there any study about how half-baked philosophies encourage maladaptive thoughts? [closed]
There are many schools of philosophy that advocate refuting perceived phenomena, for example:
Taoism: the bad equals the good, why be afraid or avoid the bad ones?
Science: before proving it ...
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Authors on leaders, leadership, and the crave for power
Where does the need to become a leader come from? Is it an animal instinct and humans as social animals need an alpha male figure to lead the mob? Are individuals who eager for power dangerous for ...
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Is there any serious overlap between Philosophy and Psychology?
To explain further: would, say, a modern philosopher with a PhD be well-versed in modern psychology?
Since philosophy inevitably investigates the mind and the behavior of people, and that most ...
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Why can't we learn what we are not interested in? [closed]
The school system, as we know it, is and has been shaping students to fit the system in which they live. Throughout this process, the students are forced to learn (mostly memorize) subjects in which ...
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Is psychologism still a thing? What are common rejections of psychologism?
Recently, I learnt that there exist people who go so far as to claim that "mathematics is a branch of psychology". I thought that psychologism was long outdated, in connection with mathematics at ...
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if philosophy didn't exist nor did psychology, could we prove that we think?
if philosophy and psychology didn't exist, could humans be able to prove that we think and are capable of coming up with inventions, I mean we create things because we need them(that used to be the ...
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Would the opacity of everyday motivations seriously undermine Kantian CI?
Would the opacity of everyday motivations seriously undermine Kantian categorical imperative (CI)?
I tend not to use the CI when deciding what is moral, and partly because I'm not sure I know what my ...
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Does the value of truth have an approximation threshold?
In other words, a truth value in a mathematical sense is binary, but human communication is fallible and runs the risk of fallacy, error, and distortion.
The idea of being "close enough" to the truth ...
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How would psychological anti-egoist respond to the following argument?
At first, my theory of psychological egoism consists of perfect desires and imperfect desires. They are based on the notions of hypothetical and practical choices.
Hypothetical choice - a choice ...
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How might studying philosophy impact your mental health?
According to wikipedia on Pessimism and Pragmatic Criticism
...Al-Ghazali and William James rejected their pessimism after suffering
psychological, or even psychosomatic illness...
Other authors ...
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Authors on religions as mental traps
Religions use mental concepts such as final judgement, sin, salvation, redemption, condemnation, karma, purification of the soul etc. A person who has been indoctrinated for years with these concepts ...
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How good, from an ethical, perspective is APA's “Critical Incidents Technique” to develop a code of ethics?
Here I am using good as acceptable or consistent from a philosophical ethics perspective. It strikes me that in order to confirm it they just made a survey of what scientists thought were ethical ...
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Ned Block on the Psychology of the Homunculi-Head
In his ‘Troubles with Functionalism’, Block develops his now-famous Homunculi-Head thought experiment. At one point (p.292), he claims that there are psychological differences between a person and ...
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Books on how Philosophers overcame Misanthropy (hatred towards humanity)
There has been many great philosophers and thinkers that at some point or for all their lives hated society:
“In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a ...
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How can i become obsessed with some meaning to life that i find rational? [closed]
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I see something for example like living for others or trying to change the world (in a non-violent way) is an genuine meaning to life,however i'm not obsessed with these meanings that i ...
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What ethical studies have been performed on what would happen if a government raises kids without parents?
This is a thought experiment that deals with morality and ethics:
Due to low natality governments decide to create schools in which kids
are raised by professional caregivers and people trained ...
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Is the Increase of Escapism in the Modern World Concerning?
What I have observed in the information era is the exponential increase of artificial escapism. By this I mean distracting yourself from reality with non-realistic Books, TV, Music, Movies, Videogames ...
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For a political ruler is it better to be loved or feared?
Let's suppose the title question applies especially (but not exclusively) in the context of a leadership role (where the goal is to sustain power) and for simplicity let's say the choice is strictly ...
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Paradox with regards to detachment
Recently I got a chance to read 'Gita' where the central paradigm is 'Detachment', which goes absolutely against my intuition which I explain below.
Let's take example of Feynman, who was so ...
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Existence of Jungian archetypes
I can't seem to make sense of any of the summary definitions of an archetype according to Jung.
Has a consise, consistent definition been given anywhere?
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Can the act of having certain thoughts be unethical? [duplicate]
On the basis of Western morality, the Greco-Roman Judeo-Christian one, behaviors like killing, betraying, cursing are considered immoral. Christianity imposes that thoughts can be corrupt, therefore ...
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Does a psychological disorder excuse one from the impacts of their actions?
I have BPD, and due to that my behavior is somewhat unpredictable even to me. I often end up doing things that are outright cruel even to my friends and family. My question is, am I a bad person? Even ...
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Contradictions with Physical Needs within Plato's Tripartite Theory of the Soul? (Reason Rules?)
Aparently, Plato said
reason should rule over emotions and appetites
When googling the phrase, something about Plato's Tripartite Theory of the Soul comes up.
In Republic [Book IX], Plato ...
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Are there public health issues around mental health?
Mental health seem to be increasingly in the news much more so than twenty or thirty years ago when they were seen merely as pathologies.
When it was discovered that many diseases were caused by ...
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Aesthetics and the unbalanced psyche
Due to the things I have been reading and observing lately, I wonder: what is the importance of an "unbalanced" psyche to the aesthetics of his/her oeuvre?
The trigger of this thought was the fact ...
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Is Philosophy the source of all other fields of study?
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I started a self-education plan to learn computer science from foundations. then, I found my self in need to learn electrical engineering, after that I understant that I should learn Physics ...
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Response to Landscapes
As a hiker and (very amateur) philosopher, this question is one that has resonated with me a great deal. As well as hoping to spark discussion on the topic, I'm really hoping for guidance on existing ...
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The need to delude yourself explained by philosophers
In psychology it is called cognitive dissonance when you experience two or more conflicting beliefs. Some people would change their system of beliefs, others would just go on deluding themselves. This ...
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History repeats itself [closed]
People say “History repeats itself”, more often when injustice, human relationships, phenomena fall under the same pattern we argue over this. But why don't people accept things so easily when ...
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From where does sensing take place during dreams?
In the Zhuangzi (Taoist text), Zhuang Zhou wrote he dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke up he did not know whether he was perhaps a butterfly dreaming he is a man. (Wikipedia)
Personally, I ...
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Will forgiving make us weak over time? our loved ones get hurt mentally/physically? lose dignity and pride? [closed]
Everyone advise us to forgive and forget... And for those who experience it firsthand, it becomes a pain... those who make advice look like hypocrites...
When we take revenge and get even, we get a ...
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What are the implications of eternal life
The premise
What would be the consequences of transferring the consciousness of a middle-aged person to a mechanical object or device (such as a robot), as opposed to another biological body?
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