Psychology

Happiness has more dimensions than what is generally assumed. Factors like pleasure, engagement with life, and having purpose or meaning provide the highest levels of happiness over time. […]

Descriptive methods help in understanding people’s behaviors in real-life situations. These methods observe and record some type of thought, belief, emotion, or behavior. […]

The findings based on data from archival research are tangible, such as how spending time in nature affects one’s mood. It helps establish a correlation between two variables. […]

While genes affect our behavior, such as whom we vote for and if we are likely to get divorced, genetic predisposition is relatively limited in its impact. […]

Failure to replicate the results of some famous studies of the past has led to more rigorous research techniques in psychology. Another focus of psychology has been in the field of positive psychology. […]

Psychology is a science. It uses careful research and scientific process to come to its conclusions, which is very important, as that is what separates it from pseudo-psychology. […]

The gap between appearance and reality and misperception of the factors that drive how others behave, even when that behavior is identical to our own, occurs quite regularly. […]