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.
Simple Guides
What is Self-Control?
Self-control is the ability to pause, think, and choose your actions instead of just doing whatever your first impulse tells you to do.
Simple Guides
What is Love?
Love is the deep “yes” your whole being feels toward someone or something. It is a lasting care that wants the other to exist, to be safe, and to grow – even when it’s not easy, even when you don’t get what you want in the moment.
Simple Guides
What is Bullying?
Bullying is not just “being mean.” It is a pattern where someone repeatedly hurts, scares, or controls another person, on purpose, to feel safer, stronger, or less ashamed inside. It often starts as a way to cope with their own fear of being blamed, mocked, or rejected.
Behavioural theory
Social Control: The “Broken Record” Society
There is a societal version of the “broken record” phenomenon, where a false narrative is repeated so often that it becomes ingrained, leading to internalized blame and self-doubt.
Behavioural Economics
Expected Utility Theory (EUT)
Expected Utility Theory rests on a set of fundamental axioms of rationality that guide how individuals make decisions under uncertainty.
Anxiety
Social Control: Manipulation of Public Opinion
Manipulating public opinion involves using various techniques to shape how people think about issues, often through misinformation or emotional appeals.
Brainwashing
Personal Brainwashing Techniques: Basic Indoctrination
There is a brainwashing technique that starts out with a factual statement, then progressively increases the sense of confusion in the viewer, reader, or listener, by indicating something has been proven, which has not.
Brainwashing
Social Control: Social Brainwashing Theories
Social brainwashing theories delve into how individuals or groups can be manipulated into adopting beliefs or behaviours against their will.
Attachment Theory
Social Control: The Self-police Parade
The concept of the Self-Police Parade, as referenced by Robert Calvert, the lyricist and vocalist of the band Hawkwind, is a thought-provoking metaphor that reflects on societal control and the resultant self-regulation of the individual.