Human Nature – A Conceptual Framework – IV
Psychologist Robert Rosenthal attributes the Pygmalion Effect (where we perform according to what is expected of us rather than…
Month: June 2011
Human Nature – A Conceptual Framework – III
In 1904, a German mathematics teacher by the name of Mr. von Osten, believed that he had taught…
Human Nature – A Conceptual Framework – II
How much do our expectations of others – positive or negative – influence our relationships with them? Most…
Human Nature – A Conceptual Framework – I
The most basic truth about human beings is that we have the capacity for change and development. As…
Classifying Human Experience
We have spent centuries perfecting ways to classify and authenticate physical objects and forces. In order to classify…
Unique Reality and the Unique Self
In the 1940s psychologists Donald Snygg and Arthur W. Combs introduced ‘phenomenal field theory.’ The idea was borrowed…
The Laughter of the Gods
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (1) Knowledge…
Self knowledge and Selflessness
True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self. (1) One…
And in the beginning…
At the initial stages of conception all human cells are similar and could, potentially, become any part in…
Ourselves and Others
Cooperation and it’s pre-requisite, reciprocity, require us to learn how to get on together but real human development…