Psychology
What Makes Us Happy?
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. […]
Professor Catherine A. Sanderson
Psychology
Understanding Psychology: The Descriptive Method
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. […]
Psychology
Archival Research in Psychology
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. […]
Psychology
Psychology and Genetics: How Are They Connected?
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. […]
Psychology
The Replication Crisis and Positive Psychology
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
The Importance of Empirical Research in 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. […]
Psychology
Perceptions and Beliefs Are Not Reality
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. […]