Human Thinking
What is Classical Conditioning?
This article explains Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning, and uses his dog-training analogy to introduce the theory, before explaining the differences when applied to people.
Human Thinking
What is Operant Conditioning?
This article introduces operant conditioning, a key part of our basic understanding of human behaviour and learning.
What are Coping Responses?
Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon where individuals tend to favour information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
Alfred Adler
Four goals of misbehaviour
The four rules of misbehaviour are typically applied to children, but they can also apply to adults. Find out more.
Abraham Maslow
Psychological theories
In this article, we will introduce some of the major psychological theories that have shaped our understanding of human behaviour,
False-Self
Independent Self and Interdependent Self
Although Rogers wrote mainly about the real self and ideal self, the terms independent self and interdependent self come from later “self‑construal” research in cultural psychology
1D Thinking
Inverse-Compartmentalisation Model of Organisation
When senior leaders rely on dichotomous (black/white) framing under conditions of stress, competition, or political threat, organisational actors create and enforce information-filters (gatekeepers, shadow channels) that preserve apparent unity while displacing unresolved tensions into inverted compartmentalised stovepipes — damaging decision quality and situational awareness.
Core-Self Pruning
Microaggression and Microtrauma
In life, a constant stream of microaggressions – of disagreements, and being corrected, told to change our thinking or behaviour – tend to cause microtraumas, which, ultimately are micro-rejections of the individuals true self.
Authenticity
Self-Reflection
This article covers the science behind the practice of self-reflection. Each theoretical model that supports the practice is teased out.
Core-Self Pruning
Self-integrity
This article discusses the concept of Self-Integrity, and how that relates to other concepts of personality and self-awareness.