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psych-facts: What factors affect how emotional we are?

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:32:42 -0400

psych-facts: What factors affect how emotional we are?:

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· Personality – By nature, some people are more enthusiastic, excitable and changeable. They may feel as if they’re on an emotional roller coaster ride with unexpected swings in the way they feel.

· Family norms - Some families are chaotic and…

True story. Never shame a child for feeling angry or frustrated....

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:58:51 -0500

True story. Never shame a child for feeling angry or frustrated. Emotion is NEVER wrong. Teaching them correct coping strategies for how to deal with the emotions is right.

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Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:39:54 -0500

"People don’t need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it..."

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:20:09 -0500

“People don’t need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn’t be.
-Charles Bukowski, Factotum”

- False. Love is necessary for healthy human development. Many studies have been done on this, on monkeys and orphans in Romania. With the monkeys, those that were separated from their mothers but given all other needs for life died. As for the orphans in Romania, they were ‘cared’ for, albeit very poorly because there simply weren’t enough workers or resources- however their development was incredibly stunted. They had an 11 year old boy with the body of a 3 year old. This story does have a happy ending though, University students go there every semester and volunteer and since then the orphanage that had that child in particular has undergone a night and day change. People DO need love. It needn’t be from a lover— but they do need healthy, stable, loving relationships with other human beings.

thats-so-meme: We say this in Ethology too

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:48:42 -0500

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We say this in Ethology too

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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:33:27 -0500

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Trigger Warning: Sensitive Material. The following discusses...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:53:58 -0500

Trigger Warning: Sensitive Material. The following discusses serial killers and theorized developmental causes.

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Childhoods of Violence?

Not all murderers come from broken, impoverished homes. Many of them started life in a family where this wasn’t really true. Many of them started life in a family where family income was stable and sufficient. More than half lived initially in a family that appeared to be intact, where the mother and father lived together with their son.

In one study or serial killers, they were found to be mostly intelligent children. Seven of the 36 subjects had IQ scores below 90, most were in the normal range, and 11 had scores in the superior range, above 120.

More than half of those surveyed in the Criminal Personality Research Project (partially funded by the Justice Department, USA) had mental illness in their immediate family. Half had parents who had been involved in criminal activities. Nearly 70 percent had a familial history of alcohol or drug abuse. Every single one of the murderers were subjected to serious emotional abuse during their childhoods. All of them developed into what psychiatrists label as sexually dysfunctional adults, unable to sustain a mature, consensual relationship with another adult.

From birth to age 6/7, studies have shown, the most important adult figure in a child’s life under traditional circumstances is the mother, and it is this period that the child learns what love is. Relationships between the researched subjects and their mothers were uniformly cool, distant, unloving, neglectful, with very little touching, emotional warmth - the children were deprived of love. Sometimes the mother, even when nurturing, cannot balance out or offset the destructive behavior of the father. More than 70 percent said they had witnessed or been part of sexually stressful events when young. This percentage is many times greater than in the general population. The abuse that the children endured was both physical and mental. These children grew up in an environment in which their own actions were ignored, where there were no limits set on their behavior. Tha task of the first half-dozen years of life is socialization. Those who grow up to murder never truly comprehended the world in other than egocentric terms. It is true that most children who come from dysfunctional early childhoods don’t go on to murder or to commit other violent antisocial acts - the reason might be that the majority are rescued by strong hands in the next phase of childhood, that of preadolescence.

From ages of 8 to 12, all the negative tendencies present in their early childhoods were exacerbated and reinforced. In this period, a male child really needs a father, and it was in just this time period that the fathers of half the subjects disappeared in one way or another, which can also be embarrassing for the child in front of his peers. Potential murderers became solidified in their loneliness first during the age period of 8 to 12; such isolation is considered the single most important aspect of their psychological makeup. His preadolescent sexual activity, rather than being connected to other human beings, starts as autoerotic (more than 3/4; more than half reported rape fantasies between the ages 12 to 14;, more than 80 percent admitted to using pornography, and to tendencies toward fetishism and voyeurism.

False. Gender is defined in many different ways, and there are...

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:17:24 -0500

False. Gender is defined in many different ways, and there are multiple types. You have biological gender, psychological, sexual/physical, etc. Honestly, I don’t remember all the different types of the top of my head- but the point is, it is not a social construct. You are born with genitalia- you have a physical gender. You are born with varying levels of testosterone and estrogen in your body- you have a biological gender. You act a certain way in public when presented with members of the opposite sex- you have a social gender, which is likely what this quote is referring to- but it’s so much more than that! In fact, many studies were done where children were raised with gender neutral toys and treatment, and you know what happened? Boys made guns out of carrots and wanted to fight. Girls wanted to be pretty and have tea parties. Gender is an inherent part of our being.

An extremely important human development concept. It really...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:35:39 -0500

An extremely important human development concept. It really doesn’t matter in the least what actually happened- it matters what the adolescent perceived. Children who struggle with a lot of negative/pessimistic views can greatly improve by changing the way that they view the situation since they have no power to change the past. This also plays a huge impact with ostracism; many times parents and teachers won’t think that a child is being ostracized, and maybe they aren’t— but if they think that they are then it is just as bad as the real thing. (Fun fact: Ostracism registers in the brain as a physical pain response, and it had very real, very damaging effects). See Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for more ideas on how to teach mindfulness and perception strategies.

did-you-kno: Image e.g: A young boy climbs in a tree - today...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:29:55 -0500

did-you-kno:

Image e.g: A young boy climbs in a tree - today this is one of the risks many parents find totally unacceptable.

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True story. In fact, it can lead to such things such as borderline personality pattern (a rather unpleasant disorder to have- and I speak from personal experience with this one), which is caused by too much parenting, not enough parenting, or inconsistent parenting. Look up attachment theory for more information.