Babies 'show social intelligence'

Babies are able to show some social intelligence at the very early age.

Recently made research with 12 six-month old and 16 ten-month old babies has shown that babies can evaluate good and bad things. Scientists of the University of Oxford, UK, used social and youth psychology techniques during the experiment. Babies were sat on their parients' laps and had to choose one of the toys of different shapes that were designed to appeal to babies.

The experiment has shown, that babies don't have a morality ir real social understanding, but they are quite competent creatures and can show some social intelligence.

Reference:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7103804.stm

Picture from: http://imaginee.deviantart.com/art/Adorable-Baby-Kaia-52500109

People that have influenced me

I have met many people in my life. Some of them were more important to me, other - less. Somebody has said, that everybody leave their footprints, when they are going through our lives. If these footprints are deep - it survives for a long time, if it is truthful - it becomes ways. I strongly believe in this aphorism and i wish there were some persons in my life who's footprints will become ways.

At first I want to mention my friend Karolis. We have lived in a neighbourhood and became friends four and half years ago. This person strongly influenced me and changed my life in many aspects. I always admired his knowledge and listened to his stories with a lot of interest. He has influenced my lifestyle, sense of music, attitude of mind. He gave me an opportunity to experience new taste of life and I'm really grateful for that. I believe that our deep relationship will continue forever.

Second very important person in my life is my best friend Almante. We've met about five years ago. This wonderful person learned me to notice a beauty of life and notice little things around as, which can bring us a joy. She has also showed me a singularity of books and persuaded me that there are many wisdom in books. We experienced a lot together and this experience is connecting us event nowdays.
There are a few more persons who I should mention, but I have chosen these two. I don't know why. Maybe because I've met them earlier than others, or maybe because these two persons are really the most iportant to me. I'm really very happy that I had an opportunity to meet them and I believe, that they've left truthful feet in my life and it will become ways :)

Phobias

Are you afraid of spiders? Or confined spaces? Or maybe you experience a fear of blood - hemophobia? There are mentioned only a few from the huge list of phobias. My bet is that you have never heard about many of them.

Have you ever heard, that there are people, ho are afraid of rain? This fear is named ombrophobia. It is an national affliction that is common in Philippines. Those, who suffer from this phobia says, that they're afraid of rain because they think it causes coughs and cold and flu. And if we cover our books when it is raining with a purpose to protect it, the Philippines take put their books and use it to cover their heads.

Other strange phobia is a dendrophobia - a fear of trees. Victims of dendrophobia believes that trees can turn into flesh - craving monsters when they are not looking at them. They can also imagine come kind of intimidating creatures looking into the tree and feel scared because of that.

One more abnormal phobia is a fear of sun - heliophobia. It is a problem that afflicts hundreds of Americans. Many people have been staying away from the sun because of growing fears about skin cancer. Heliophobia cause a vitamin D deficiency problem, that can be corrected by taking this medicament supplements.

I've mentioned only four types of phobias. But there are many phobias that exists around as, such like a fear of gravity, fear of books, bear of crowded places, fear of people and society and so on. Each of them is named suitably. You can feel happy if you don't have any abnormal fears and can live a normal person's life.

References:
http://psychology.about.com/od/phobias/a/phobialist.htm
http://pinoykasi.homestead.com/files/2002articles/07182002_Ombrophobia.htm
www.overcome-fears-and-phobias.com/dendrophobia.htm - 28k -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliophobia

The meaning of dreams

All people dream at night more or less. Our dreams combine verbal, visual and emotional stimulation into a sometimes ridiculous, illogical but often exciting storyline. Have you ever thought what your dreams should mean? Should we look at them literally or figuratively? Or maybe there aren't such a thing as the meaning of dreams? Do you think dreams might be prophetic?

Many people believe, that there are some meaning of the symbols we see in our dreams. For instance, it is said, that flying birds are a sign of prosperity to the dreamer, symbolize feelings of freedom, liberation from weight of responsibilities. A cat in our dream represent a feminine aspect.Cats attacking you represent the enemies. If you succeed banishing them you will overcome great obstacles and rise in fortune and fame. There are a lot of dream dictionaries where all the meanings are divided by categories or alphabet. You can find such a dictionary almost in every bookshop or even online and search for the meaning of some symbol.

The science analyzes dreams from more complicated perspective. Psychological theories are based on the idea that dreams allows us to sort through problems, events of the day or things that are requiring a lot of our attention. For example, Sigmund Freud viewed dreams as guide to the unconscious. He believed that dreams allow the unconscious mind to act out unacceptable thoughts and desires, that we aren't able to express in a social setting at the real life.

There are few other theories of dreams and no one knows which is the most impartial. It's an individual choice what he or she wants to believe. Some researchers say, that we solve our problems or think through issues by dreaming, others believe to some symbols meaning, but, as Sigmund Freud once comment, we should't forget that, "Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar." :)




References:
http://petrix.com/dreams/
http://science.howstuffworks.com/dream.htm

Pictures from my own album.

Psychology of colors

Have you ever thought how can colours influnce human thoughts, feelings or mood? Do you think there is no difference in what color You choose when You're buying clothes or painting your room's walls? Or what colour shines Your car's interior? The truth is that colour affect human beings in many ways and by using the principles of Colour Psychology You can manipulate people's feelings, opinion or emotions in many ways.

One of the classic colours is Black. It represents power, sexuality, elegance, authority. Because of that we can notice that suits usually worn by businessmen, leaders or some other important persons are commonly black. However, black colour also is very close to drama, death or sadness and is mostly connected with depression and unhappiness.





Other colour from "classic" series is Red. It's the most noticable colour, which means danger, passion, energy, aggressiveness. Red is the most emotionally intense colour and stimulates a faster breathing and heartbeat.

The opposite colour is Blue. It suggests trust, coolness, reliability, serenity, protection. Because of these features blue is often considered as a business colour. Brown is an earth color and quite similar to blue because it also associated with stability, security, politeness, helpfulness that is nevertheless important in buisiness world.

Green is relaxing, one of the most well - liked colour. It usually means health, youth, freedom and nature. It is the easiest colour on the eye. It's a good colour for offices and study areas because it's easy to put your mind in green coloured room.

The most positive colour is Yellow. It suggests creativity, cheer, happiness, hilarity. It stimulates the intelect and enhances concentration. It is said, that yellow is the colour of optimists.

Though colours have different meanings in various cultures and countries, they are generally used in logos to convey a specific message and the basic kowledge of colors can be fitted on a various situations, so it is useful to know about the influence of colours. For example, it is widely known that the best colour duet to use on advertisements, mass-media and social commercials is bright yellow and black. It amazingly stimulates human's mind and extraordinary catches attention. So, gives the best effect. And it's only one little drop in the sea of colour affection.




Sources of information:
http://iit.bloomu.edu/vthc/Design/psychology.htm
http://ezinearticles.com/?Choose-and-Use-the-Best-Colors,-The-Psychology-of-Color&id=12855
http://www.apartment-ideas.com/psychology-of-colour.html

Choise of Industrial psychology.

Psychology as speciality is becoming more and more popular. Psychologists are working in all possible ranges and levels. Begining with hospital's consultants up to industrial workers. One of the most popular subfield is industrial or organizational psychology. Why does so many contemporary psychologists are interested in this range?

First of all, it's usually the most profitable, well payed job, which guarantees you fixed salary, sometimes "spiced" with bonuses, and there you can make a lot of useful acquaintance . It's important to earn a lot, because money could be named as an engine of today's world and some meaningful contacts could become the bridge to your luck in the future. In industrial range you can meet a lot of influential and powerful people and you are always around the bussiness workers, lawyers etc, the most gainful and wealthful range.

Furthermore, you can work in more traditional workplace like office or bureau, you can allways communicate with your collegues and work in a team, in other words, to be socialy active. There are a lot of psychologists who loves their proffesion but don't want to work as a traditional and most known personal psychologist, so the best choise for them is industrial psychology.

On the other hand, organizational psychology is quite far away from a traditional conception of this proffesion. Industrial psychologists sometimes are more close to occupation than psychology and some of them loses their faces as psychologists. This i would consider the main disadvantage of organisational psichology.

All things considered, although there are advantages and disatvandages of working as an industrial psychologist, it's his/her's personal choice where to work. Psychology is needed everywhere and everyone can choose that field which is more close to them. There is nothing to loose :)

Why I've decided to study psychology

Psychology was my dream profession long before. I can't remember when exactly
I've got that idea in my mind, to study psychology. But I have clearly imagined myself in this profession. I have always liked to communicate with others and somehow had a success to earn someone's trust at a short time. Yes, people didn't hesitate to tell me their life stories even if they where strangers or simply virtual talkers. They have opened their hearts in front of me at a very short time. This fact inspired me additionally. So i lived with this idea about my future profession a few years and when all my classmates started to head up about their studies in the last form, I felt good, because I knew what I need. At least I thought so :)

But the moment when I had to announce my formal choice has finaly came and then the doubts have started... I had an application blank in front of me and didn't know what to write in the first place and what should go after that. The priorities started confusing me. It was hard, because all friends and relatives around me said that psychology isn't a promising proffesion, they suggested me to study economics, law, management and so on. They saw a better and more promising life for me, I guess.

I started to doubt if I really could afford to work as a personal psychologist for example, because it is hard to help somebody else when you have your own problems, it could be immposible to disassociate from my work after workhours. I was afraid that I will mix and confuse my own life with my client's. I considered a lot and decided not to loose my old desire nevertheless, because I think that it's very important to work in your pleasant field, and actually it is the only occupation I adore.