Managing Social Anxiety for Networking Events
Social anxiety – a feeling of tension, self-doubt, and stress emerging from actually interacting with people and the idea of interacting with people. This can …
Behavior generally refers to observable aspects of our life. Researchers have long considered behavior to be the central focus of psychology, whether its adjustment, mental health, or learning.
Behavior looks at 2 aspects of our lives:
1. What is a person doing?
2. How is it related to the environment or other behavior?
Behavior is typically understood through 2 approaches:
1. Reinforcement: What incentive or problem is increasing or decreasing a behavior.
2. Stimulus-response: If the brain is stimulated with any information or object, what is the human response to it?
Digital Civics: Threats, Hygiene, Netiquette (Part 2)
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Digital Civics: Concepts & Human Interaction (Part 1)
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Primes are Guiding your Life in ways you can’t Predict
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Toxic Relationship with Money? Explore scripts, personality, and biases
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5 Deep Personality Traits, beyond introverts/extroverts
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The Screenshot Test: Is your content Worthy of Sharing?
I figured this out too late, but glad I did. I created the screenshot test to use on all of my social media content, blog …
7 Anti-anxiety Habits to Save You from Procrastination
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Are you an Autotelic Person? [Test yourself]
“The motivation to do a task comes from the satisfaction of getting to do the task.” If this is relatable, chances are you have the …
Bad Sleep might make you Procrastinate
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Imitation: The Oldest way of Learning, still valid in Education
Monkey see, monkey do. We aren’t just monkeys, but a learning technique they used – learning by observation – still is one of the most …
11 Quick Science-backed Sleep Improvement Tips
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Gen Z Productivity: Classic Tips Re-imagined
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4 Nudging Styles to 4x Marketing & Behavioral Engineering
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Consumer Psychology for Marketers: 7 theories for growth
After exploring thousands of studies and digging deep into hundreds of theories, I’ve noticed one thing – powerful marketing and consumer insights lie hidden within, …
Unlock a “value system” for relationships [w/ Prompts]
We speak of “relationship values”. But something like a value is hard to explain, and yet a couple knows if their values match or not. …