Archive for September 6th, 2006
Headaches
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Nearly everyone has suffered the pain of a headache. In fact, according to the American Council for Headache Education, nearly 90% of men and 95% of women have had at least one headache during the past year.
But what actually hurts when you have a headache? The bones of the skull and tissues [...]
Theories Of Attribution
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Social psychologists have identified patterns in the ways people make attributions about their own and others’ behaviour. Hypotheses about these patterns include Fritz Heider’s “naive psychology”; the theory of correspondent inferences; and Harold Kelley’s “common-sense analysis” of behaviour.
Internal Versus External Attributions
Gestalt psychologist Fritz Heider criticized “depth psychologies” like psychoanalysis for assuming that so much of [...]
