One of the most foundational and well-studied parts of understanding human psychology is the study of experience’s effects on current behavior and cognition. The subdiscipline of psychology known as “associationism,”…
What is at the core level of our motivation that we can learn to grasp and adjust and work to improve our lives with? Far too often, we set ideals…
When looking at the primary affect programs, we see what may be at the root of some of our emotions. But rarely does it tell us exactly how we define…
We know fear quite well. It is always one of the first to come to mind if we are asked to name emotions. Fear is an emotion we encounter to…
There are a few different kinds of aggression circuits in the brain and body. One of them, rather than being merely anger operates under the SEEKING or the reward system…
We’ve talked about how the status of the internal milieu can influence how we interpret our situation, but that leaves us with the problem of how internal milieu influences our…
It is not overly controversial to propose that we often have unexplainable moods. There are days where, without explanation, life becomes much more difficult to endure, and your efforts feel…
The conversation around habits seems to be focused on how we need to break our bad habits, or create new healthy habits. We do this without giving credit to the…
It is difficult to understand what is left of our animal instincts. Are they underneath somewhere operating in the unconscious? Are they practically gone, overthrown by culture or cognition and…
To us, feeling seems to be the most essential part of emotion. A feeling is the truest instance of embodiment connecting our internal mind to the perception of the external…