Why do people become stalkers? This article looks into the psychology and motivations behind stalking behaviour. Misunderstanding Infatuations & Obsessions I think this is mostly misunderstood by the majority. One reason for this is that not everybody has experienced the torture of having an infatuation. Therefore, they never had the impulse to stalk. It’s perhaps…
How people can be manipulated so easily and how this relates to cognitive biases and thinking distortions? Plus, why is critical thinking so important to the future of the human race, sanity, and perhaps even human survival? How the News Media Manipulate Views? All the media has to do is focus on one thing and…
What are the psychological motivations and common big five personality traits of criminals and fraudsters? Psychological Motivations Socrates believed that most evil or criminal acts were committed out of ignorance. This is because most of these people believe that money and social-status will make them happy. This belief is the ignorance he was talking about….
What is the personality and general psychology of a person that could be called a fitness fanatic? These are people that always workout and stay in shape. The Casuals Most people that workout (The Casuals) do so for temporary reasons. One example of this is working out and keeping in shape when they are single…
What motivates most politicians? Why do they care about some issues, and not others? Sometimes politicians will ignore serious issues and focus on more trivial incidents, but why is this? Scoring Political Points Most politicians are only interested in certain issues if they can score political points. For example, caring about issues that affect minorities,…
According to research conducted at MIT, in general, false views and lies spread much faster and easier than true stories. MIT has published its findings in Journal Science on what sort of information travels faster and further on social media platforms, particularly Twitter/X. The data set ranges from 2006 to 2017, looking into posts that…
This will be a explanation of what I think has gone seriously wrong with the political left, and why they will get crazier and more extreme, leading to their inevitable failure and self-destruction. How the far left has formed? Extreme ignorance is one. The incomplete one-sided understanding of history which demonises the western world, especially…
What are the causes of public unrest and riots, mainly using Carl Jung’s psychological theory of the persona and the shadow to analyse the current situation going on in the UK and across Europe. The Persona and the Shadow The persona is the social mask we display to the world, which is dictated by social…
What is the bell curve and what does it show in terms of intelligence and personality distribution? This is not focused on the Book ‘The Bell Curve’, but rather an emphasis on the pattern distribution that the bell curve graph shows. What is the Bell Curve? The bell curve, also known as a normal distribution…
What many people seem to get wrong about emotional intelligence and generally the controlling of emotions. Also, why the concept of emotional intelligence is mostly discredited and is not believed to be an actual form of intelligence. What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence (EQ), also known as emotional quotient, refers to the ability to perceive,…