Humanistic Psychology

Humanistic psychology is a school of psychology that came to be established somewhere in the 1950s. This was found in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. Humanistic psychology is concerned with the human dimension of psychology and the human context for the growth of psychological theory.

A Special Bond Between Animals and Disabled Humans

Animals can be mysterious and unpredictable, but more and more animal behaviorists and others who work regularly with our nonhuman fellow beings are finding that many seem to have a special rapport with mentally or physically disabled people.

Thinking Made Easy

The value of thinking and a method to try out.

Why Does Cognitive Therapy Work?

Cognitive therapy is the treatment of choice for people who have disorders such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive behavior. This article explores why it works so effectively to resolve problems.

What is Asperger's and Where Does It Come From?

Are there alternatives to medically diagnosing people with Asperger's? Personality theorist, Steven Paglierani, thinks so. In this article, he explores how more spiritually minded diagnoses could improve how we offer help to people with Asperger's.

Communication Between Men and Women; Male Themes of Physical Activity

You never know what kind of conversations will come up in an Online Think Tank. Often men and women converse differently and often scientists and engineers converse differently than entrepreneurs, bureaucrats or project managers. You can see the issues involved in such things and indeed it makes for a somewhat lively group. But, indeed that is part of the fun of it all really. Well at least some people think so, but not always and not everyone.

Organizational Culture-Women-Minorities

Organizational culture remains masculine. This article addresses the issues that underly this problem.

Victimization Survey

The type of victimization in general may be sub-divided into two broad categories - property and violence.

Fear of Having No Home; Being Homeless

In the annual online think tank survey; What do You Fear! We found that the number of fears were astounding and somewhat troubling. Of course we always get certain ones such as; Fear of Drowning, Fire, Falling, Car Crash, Abducted Children, Violent Crimes and whatever is in the media like; War in Iraq, Global Warming, Economy, etc.

Y-Series – A Review Of The Questions

An integration and collection of the answers to many philosophical questions is presented. It is based on the scientific, cultural backbone or depending on the belief.

Searching for Geniuses on the Internet Using the Latest AI Super Computers

Since nearly everyone is now on the Internet shouldn't we be using this tool to search for geniuses? Certainly we could use the help in our civilization of putting these great minds to work without shoving them into meaningless jobs which serve neither their goals or our society? The reason I ask is because this subject recently came up at the Online Think Tank and it was determined that it could indeed be possible.

Eminent Achievers and Geniuses

They say that Geniuses are those who are Eminent Achievers in our society. A high IQ does not guarantee success and if we are to judge geniuses by achievement then that indeed makes the most sense. What is interesting is that more University degrees do not guarantee more success, but rather too much formal education actually reduces one's success upward limits of life-time achievement.

Are All Geniuses Nerds and Socially Inept?

Society tends to hold that geniuses are nerdy and socially inept, but is this stereotype reality based? Actually this has been proven to be statistically false and not just by a little bit, in fact a nerdy genius is the exception to the rule. Very few geniuses are clumsy, nerdy or non-attractive.

Are Those We Consider Creative Geniuses Just Lucky?

What is a genius? One of the best definitions of genius, which I have seen in many psychology research papers is that a genius is the eminent achiever and therefore it is really easy to pick them out of society because they are the people who are doing well in industry academics, government and the sciences. They end up at the top of the food chain because they are able to work at very high levels and make fewer mistakes.

Develop Your Subconscious Mind Power

After conducting many studies of intelligence and creativity, Professor Simonton has found that there is no real relationship between our IQ and creativity.