What are Coping Responses?
Confirmation Bias
Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon where individuals tend to favour information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
Childhood Trauma
Defence-based Behavioural Patterns of the False-Self
In this article, I will try to flesh out the behaviour that is embodied within the phrase; “an ego-bound” individual. That is, an individual that projects themselves via a mask of false self behaviours, designed to cover up their inner sense of lacking or inability, that hides their secret belief that they are irretrievably broken. The term ego-bound, specifically, refers to someone that has largely “become” that mask, and considers it to be part of their authentic individuality.
Love
Theory of psychosocial development
Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development outlines eight stages through which individuals progress from infancy to late adulthood, each characterized by a specific psychosocial crisis that must be resolved to achieve healthy personality development
Blame
Social Interdependence Theory
Social interdependence theory is a foundational concept in social psychology that examines how individuals’ outcomes and behaviours are shaped by their interdependence with others in a group or relationship
Abraham Maslow
Masking
In this article, we will look at masks in relation to human psychology as made popular by Erving Goffman, and how they apply to the ego.
Psychological theories
Social psychology
In this article, we will introduce some of the main concepts and theories of social psychology