Portal:Psychology

The Psychology Portal Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social sciences. 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. Ψ (or psi) is a Greek letter which is commonly associated with the science of psychology. 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 - Christopher Smart The English poet Christopher Smart (1722–1771) was confined to mental asylums from May 1757 until January 1763. Smart was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, Upper Moorfields, London, on 6 May 1757. He was taken there by his father-in-law, John Newbery, although he may have been confined in a private madhouse before then. While in St Luke's he wrote Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, the poems considered to be his greatest works. Although many of his contemporaries agreed that Smart was "mad", accounts of his condition and its ramifications varied, and some felt that he had been committed unfairly. Smart was diagnosed as "incurable" while at St Luke's, and when they ran out of funds for his care he was moved to Mr. Potter's asylum, Bethnal Green. All that is known of his years of confinement is that he wrote poetry. Smart's isolation led him to abandon the poetic genres of the 18th century that had marked his earlier work and to write religious poetry such as Jubilate Agno ("Rejoice in the Lamb"). His asylum poetry reveals a desire for "unmediated revelation", and it is possible that the self-evaluation found in his poetry represents an expression of evangelical Christianity. (Full article...) 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Please join us at any of them. Psychology • Psychiatry • Neuroscience Selected biography - Gustav Theodor Fechner (/ˈfɛxnər/; German: [ˈfɛçnɐ]; 19 April 1801 – 18 November 1887) was a German experimental psychologist, philosopher, and physicist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th-century scientists and philosophers. He is also credited with demonstrating the non-linear relationship between psychological sensation and the physical intensity of a stimulus via the formula: $S=K\ln I$, which became known as the Weber–Fechner law. (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 Søren Kierkegaard 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 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 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 Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele, the current first lady of El Salvador, is the first person in the country to hold a doctorate in prenatal psychology? ... that food psychology research has found that the COVID-19 pandemic led to both reduced and increased consumption of junk food among different geographical populations and educational backgrounds? ... that the reactions to food depicted in the manga series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma were decided on through free association games? ... that, although created to understand Chinese psychological torture of American POWs during the Korean War, Biderman's Chart of Coercion was used by American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay? ... that award winner Lillian Comas-Díaz became interested in psychology after consoling classmates recovering from a destructive hurricane? 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(self-inflicted cuts pictured) ... that Herbert Freudenberger fled Germany alone during WWII at the age of twelve, later becoming a well-known psychologist in the United States? ... that simply knowing about and understanding the illusion of transparency might help reduce speech anxiety? More did you know facts Psychology topics Recognized content Extended content Featured articles Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart Birthday-number effect Confirmation bias Digital media use and mental health Everywhere at the End of Time Getting It: The Psychology of est I Never Liked You Mathew Charles Lamb Major depressive disorder Name-letter effect Nominative determinism Reactive attachment disorder William S. Sadler Schizophrenia Taare Zameen Par Torture Tourette syndrome Former featured articles Asperger syndrome Attachment theory Autism Autostereogram Noam Chomsky Down syndrome Michel Foucault Frankfurt School Gender role L. 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Farley Fear of bees The finger First impression (psychology) Susan Folkman Food psychology Forensic developmental psychology Foucha v. Louisiana Frendak v. United States Sophie Freud Herbert Freudenberger Frog pond effect Frown Hans G. Furth 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 Jean Berko Gleason Global precedence Gloom Włodzimierz Godłowski Grandiose delusions William T. Greenough Gudjonsson suggestibility scale Gullibility 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 Homosexuality in American football Homosexuals Anonymous Human female sexuality Humor styles Hypoalgesic effect of swearing I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional IQ classification 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 Insanity in English law Institutional syndrome Intelligent disobedience Intergroup relations International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day Jackson v. 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Meltzoff Memory and trauma Neva Milicic Müller Alexander Mitscherlich (psychologist) Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen Murder of Michele LeAnn Morgan Motivation crowding theory Motor theory of speech perception Muhamed (horse) List of multilingual presidents of the United States Munchausen by Internet Namus 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 Nice guy Nobel Prize effect Normal People Scare Me Nudge (book) Numerosity adaptation effect Marie Nyswander Karolina Olsson Ophidiophobia Orality John Ordronaux (doctor) Maressa Orzack Overchoice Maria Ovsiankina Ovulatory shift hypothesis PAD emotional state model PSYCHLOPS Pamela Trotman Reid 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. 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