Two of the most horrifying little goodies that so often accompany panic attacks and severe anxiety are derealization and depersonalization. Both can be absolutely crippling and take you right to the turnstiles of your perception of insanity. This article will discuss what these spooky phenomena are and what may cause them.

Coming from personal experience, derealization is a deep and disturbing sensation of unreality and detachment from one’s immediate world, rather...

There are very many forms of medical journals, magazines and books that feature psychology articles. Many of these articles may be the works of one person or many people, but one must read them with an open mind, especially when it comes to theories and ideas of medical interest.

First and foremost, these type of articles can benefit all of us and can help the medical world especially. Psychiatrists and psychologists discover new ways on how to treat an illness or on how to...

MY FAVORIT RESEARCHER: STANLEY MILGRAM: Milgram's experimental Research

Prof. Hasan Yahya

Another example, is to show that people become under stress between conscious and unconscious brain. The subject was under two pressures, his own mind to execute an order of hurting people, and his wish NOT to execute the orders. If the subject was told that the electric shocks were fake, he will not be under stress. Here we describe how the expirement...

The thing about psychology is it’s not an exact science. Things are constantly changing. In fact, one might go ahead and say that probably the only constant is change. This is due to the fact that new and different theories are always being proposed. Psychology experiments are some of the theories that scientist are trying out.

Now, to ensure and to test their accuracy, psychology experiments have to be conducted to either support or discredit the theory that has been...

Sign language for the deaf (also commonly referred to as the signed language) is basically, a language that uses manual communication, lip patterns and body language instead of sound. It involves combining, simultaneously hand shapes, movement of the hands and its orientation along with the movement of arms or body and the facial expressions to express person’s thoughts. They are not only practiced by the deaf communities but also by their family, friends etc. Just like spoken...

Psychology recognizes two main types of conditioning: classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Classical conditioning is basically associative conditioning, where a subject learns to associate a certain event with a known outcome; this is evidenced inpsychologist Ivan Pavlov's research, where dogs learned to associate food with a ringing bell, eventually causing the dogs to unconsciously produce saliva at the sound of the bell. Operant conditioning, in contrast, involves the...

Was there ever a time wherein you can’t remember a certain event no matter how much you tried? How about a time wherein you’re mad but instead of letting it out to the person you’re mad at, you take it out at the things around you? How about liking someone but then you continuously try to deny it even when it’s true?

Now you might think that occurrences such as what is mentioned above happen normally. But have you ever thought of asking yourself why these...

There are many different reasons for a person to loose their appetite. Both men and women are prone to loosing their appetite due to sickness or life’s stresses. Many people actually suffer such a loss of appetite that they can start to lose weight, making them fairly skinny. Such a loss in weight can lead to other health problems, including a lowered immune system. In many cases, the loss of appetite can be attributed to stress. Either life at home or life at work can become so...

Sports are part of us and most of have specific games we play or are fond of. In early ages most athletes and gamers did not have motivators and ways of solving their problems. They practiced their ways and sometimes they failed to achieve their goals. Later sports psychology was introduced in order to ensure that the sports were well organized and the principles in this field were exercised.

As with all areas of psychology, sports psychology deals with people who are...

People everywhere have incredible ideas, hidden talents, unlimited potential, and reachable dreams, but they spend too much time listening to the voices of fear and doubt in their own minds that they thus never take a risk and put forth the necessary action required to realize those goals, dreams, and potential. They fail because they don’t attempt. Fears are thoughts of unnecessary worry and often demonstrate an inability to control one’s thoughts. Doubts are voices in...