Psychology

The Social Psychology Of Over-Controlled Disasters 1/3

The recent appearance of Hurricane Matthew prompted some harsh memories of hurricanes past. I went through Hurricane Andrew. I was living in Ft. Lauderdale with my youngest daughter, Lydia, and I will never forget going three weeks without electricity. Th ...

Article - Alex Durig - Nov 2 2016 - 9:28pm

The Social Psychology of Over-Controlled Disasters

As  Hurricane Matthew  dissipated and we all realized it was not as bad as predicted, we were relieved. Did we feel anger at the governor and the press for over-predicting the storm? No – how could we? It is a blessing to live in a modern technocratic soci ...

Blog Post - Alex Durig - Nov 3 2016 - 2:04pm

Psychosomatic Medicine: Why 'positive Outlook' Treatments Are Taking Off In Germany

Europe has a rabid distrust of science and medicine and a corresponding higher level of belief in in naturopathy, homeopathy and various other alternative techniques. Given that, it is little surprise that psychosomatic medicine has taken off in Europe. a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2016 - 10:00am

The Social Psychology of Over-Controlled Disasters 3/3

All the life has been sucked out of our economy in the last few decades, and somehow we do not know what to do about it. Maybe that is because we are socialized into accepting our lives in modern society as an endless series of over-controlled disasters. ...

Blog Post - Alex Durig - Nov 7 2016 - 9:45am

In Your Own Words, Machine Learning Can Identify Suicidal Behavior

Using a person's spoken or written words, new computer tools can identify with great accuracy whether that person is suicidal, mentally ill but not suicidal, or neither. Machine learning is up to 93 percent accurate in correctly classifying a suicida ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2016 - 10:30am

PESD- If You Have Post Election Stress Disorder, Here Are 5 Things To Do

This election season, people have been blocking and un-friending those on “the other side”, families have been arguing, it's been a lot of stress. Tonight, one side may feel the stress associated with the loss and  Dr. Sanam Hafeez, a New York City-b ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2016 - 3:43pm

Normative Order & The Social Psychology Of Successful Degradation Ceremonies

In the mid-twentieth century, a social psychologist by the name of Harold Garfinkle (1965) wrote an article titled “Conditions of Successful Degradation Ceremonies.” This became one of those articles – one of those stand-out pieces that becomes a signpost ...

Article - Alex Durig - Nov 11 2016 - 11:13am

On The Distinct Possibility Of Being Slightly Autistic Part 1

Psychology studies the individual, and sociology studies the group. Social psychology studies the relation between the individual and the group, and for me that’s where all the action is. I study perception and the subjective organization of meaning... ...

Article - Alex Durig - Dec 20 2016 - 12:40pm

On The Distinct Possibility Of Being Slightly Autistic Part 2

Enter the concept of slight autism. We can define slight autism as a state of autistic perception that is noticeably but not diagnosably autistic. Here is how we can begin to explain it and understand it. ...

Article - Alex Durig - Dec 20 2016 - 12:39pm

Time, Wittgenstein And Language Scaffolding

There’s a widespread belief that actually existing democracies are in the grip of a fast-paced world dominated by breaking news and all things instant. The following contribution sets out to question this belief. It takes readers on a time journey. It set ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 3 2016 - 1:53pm