The two most common behaviors are hair pulling and skin picking. These two have official names in the diagnostic manual. Hair pulling is called trichotillomania and skin-picking is called excoriation disorder. Even though...

Do you sometimes feel like you're being too hard on yourself? That maybe your thoughts and feelings just don't line up with what everyone else seems to believe? If so, you might be struggling with scrupulosity. In this video, I talk...

In this video, I talk about the importance of your locus of control. What is it? How do you know where you lie on the spectrum of internal to external? And how do you become more internally focused?

French and Raven, researchers at the University of Michigan, identified five bases — or sources — of social power in 1959: legitimate, reward, referent, expert, coercive

Strategic Contingencies Theory focuses on tasks that need to be done in the form of problems to be solved, thus de-emphasizing personality. If a person does not have charisma but is able to solve problem, then s/he can be an effective...

The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological experiment conducted in the summer of 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors.

Opportunistic behavior is an act or behavior of partnership motivated by the maximization of economic self-interest and occasioned loss of the other partners.

Also known as the Milgrim Shock Experiments, the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures were a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.

Influence is the ability to affect the actions and behaviors of others. Influence is similar to power and derivers from numerous sources. Researchers identified six sources of power, which include legitimate, reward, coercive, expert,...

French and Raven identified those five bases of power as coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, and expert.

The bandwagon effect is the tendency for people to adopt certain behaviors, styles, or attitudes simply because others are doing so. More specifically, it is a cognitive bias by which public opinion or behaviours can alter due to...

In psychology, the Asch conformity experiments or the Asch paradigm were a series of studies directed by Solomon Asch studying if and how individuals yielded to or defied a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and...

Viewer Tee wanted to know if thinking about someone being harmed means he is a psychopath. It turns out some of Tee’s thoughts were psychotic.
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We all have primitive, unacceptable impulses. These are fleeting...

Are personality disorders mental illness? A Personality disorder is a pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the expectations of a person's culture.
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Although these patterns of behavior are...

Can you have bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder at the same time? I've been asked this question several times and the answer is yes. In fact, some people will refer to this as borderpolar. This isn’t an...

In this video I define autism spectrum disorder and specifically focus on the what you can do about the sensory crisis.
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The way we define autism has changed over the years. It began as infantile autism in 1980 and then in...

Defense mechanisms are a set of mental strategies we use to ward off anxiety. These range from the primitive, like denial and projection, to more complex ones like sublimation. In this video I share five of the most common primitive...

Antisocial falls into the cluster B personalities. There are 3 clusters, Cluster A are the personality types that are odd or eccentric. Cluster B are dramatic, emotional or erratic and Cluster C are anxious or fearful.
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In this video we are going to review how to find and write the end behavior of polynomials. We will do this by covering a couple of basic examples and then work our way up to some more advanced examples



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The video “Insects and Groups” describes types of insects that live in groups.

What is Institutional Theory? In sociology and organizational studies, institutional theory is a theory on the deeper and more resilient aspects of social structure. It considers the processes by which structures, including schemes,...

What are Individual Values? How doe values pertain to management and organizational behavior? Values are the guiding forces behind decision-making, perception, and behavior. Managers seek to understand their employees values. This...

What is House's Path Goal Theory (Situational Leadership)? Robert J. House, founder of Path-Goal theory, believes that a leader's behavior is contingent to employee satisfaction, employee motivation and employee performance. Path-Goal...

What is Holland's Personality Job Fit? Holland found that people needing help with career decisions can be supported by understanding their resemblance to the following six ideal vocational personality types: Realistic (R) Investigative...