In today's blog post I wanted to share an article by NPR. This article is entitled "Halloween Provides A Look Into Human Psychology". The article highlights how different things in human behavior are seen within the aspect/ celebration of Halloween. Fantasies and fear are brought together as an enjoyable experience. Check it out below! https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/10/31/500034064/halloween-provides-a-look-into-human-psychology

For our closing blog of this week, I wanted to provide our readers with video material for intersectionality as this is much more accessible for people! The video is by Peter Hopkins a professor and Newcastle University. It will give you a better understanding of intersectionality, what it is, what it looks like in today's society, and how it affects...[ read more ]

In my last blog post, I introduced the idea of intersectionality and how it exists in all parts of our lives. For this post, I wanted to introduce an article on intersectionality by Bridie Taylor. The website that this article is found on focuses on women's rights. If this is something you are interested in our you or someone who...[ read more ]

All of us are a part of multiple groups that we identify with. Some of us identify with specific racial identities, gender (s), sexualities, disabilities, and nationalities. Outside of the ones that I have mentioned there are hundreds of other identities that people can identify with. Though we are aware of our multiple identities it is hard to consider one...[ read more ]

For this week's series, I wanted to highlight the importance of basing your knowledge on academic journals and peer-reviewed research. However, a major problem with getting your research is its lack of availability to the general public. This causes a major disparity between those who have access to information and those who don't. Because of this, I wanted to share...[ read more ]

Dr. Katherine Nelson-Coffey wrote an article entitled The Science of Happiness in Positive Psychology 101. This article is based on scientific research that has been peer-reviewed. When learning about new topics especially when it comes to implementing these things in your life you want to make sure the information is from reputable sources. In this article Dr.Coffey highlights Definition of...[ read more ]

There are whole parts of the psychology community dedicated to positive psychology. Research, Ted Talks, Articles , and tons and tons of data on positive psychology.  Last week I introduced the series on happiness due to the good feedback I wanted to actually implement this as an actual series!  In this series, I will focus less on my own viewpoint...[ read more ]

As we close off this week's post on happiness I wanted to leave everyone with the Ted Talk found below. It is important to realize though one can find happiness the healthiest form of happiness one can have is one that is created. To find happiness in a person or thing suggest that it can be lost or taken away....[ read more ]

In this week's blog post we have been discussing happiness. Below is an article from Psychology Today that focuses on what happiness is. I wanted to share this article because it shares a lot of helpful infomation about how to be happy, signs of a happy person, myths of happiness, positive psychology, Happiness over the lifespan, and many other amazing...[ read more ]

What is your source of happiness? Many different people can answer this in numerous ways; however, did you know that many times our happiness is directly linked to chemicals in our brain. Some of these chemicals include dopamine, endorphins, oxytocin, and serotonin. Though happiness comes in a variety of ways I would like to highlight some of the chemicals mentioned...[ read more ]