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Coping skills and Psychological Defenses - An Introduction
In this video I discuss coping mechanisms and defense mechanisms. Coping skills are the thoughts and behaviors you engage in that help you manage distressing situations. They can be divided into emotion-focused and problem-focused....
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Battle for Control
A video describing the conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh Mountain Range.
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Problem and Resolution
"Problem and Resolution" models how to determine how the problem in a story is solved.
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Groupthink
What is Groupthink? Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.
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Four Stages of Group Development
What ar the 4 Stages of Group Development? Psychologist Bruce Tuckman described how teams move through stages known as forming, storming, norming, and performing, and adjourning (or mourning). You can use Tuckman's model to help your...
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Conflict Theory
What is Conflict Theory? Conflict theories are perspectives in sociology and social psychology that emphasize a materialist interpretation of history, dialectical method of analysis, a critical stance toward existing social arrangements,...
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Conflict Management in Groups
How does Conflict Management in Groups take place? Find the common interests and goals so everybody agrees on something. Make necessary adjustments, reinforce, confirm, and make the agreement work. Remember that conflicting ideas lead to...
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Conflict (Organizational Behavior)
What is Conflict? How does it relate to Organizational Behavior? Organizational conflict refers to the condition of misunderstanding or disagreement that is caused by the perceived or actual opposition in the needs, interests, and values...
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Cognitive Dissonance
What is Cognitive Dissonance? In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information and the mental toll of it. Relevant items of information include a person's actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs,...
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Big Five Model of Personality Traits
What is the Big Five Model of Personality Traits? The Big Five personality traits are extraversion (also often spelled extroversion), agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. The Big Five remain relatively stable...
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Pondy's Model of Organizational Conflict
What is Pondy's Model of Organizational Conflict? Pondy's model of organizational conflict was formulated in 1967, defining the conflict process as a dynamic among individuals, and is made up of five stages of conflict: latent stage,...
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Normative Decision Model
What is Vroom and Yetton's Normative Decision Model? The Vroom-Yetton model is designed to help you to identify the best decision-making approach and leadership style to take, based on your current situation.
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Elements of Plot: A Guilty Conscience
Elements of Plot: A Guilty Conscience identifies elements of plot, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, found in the short story, A Guilty Conscience.
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Conflict: A Guilty Conscience
Conflict: A Guilty Conscience demonstrates understanding of conflict by describing a type of conflict that occurs in the short story, A Guilty Conscience.
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Bob Grows a Garden: Conflict
Bob Grows a Garden: Conflict describes the challenge that a character faces in a story, called the problem or conflict, as well as the resolution, or how the problem is resolved.
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Towards Better Explanations
Historian David Cannadine, Princeton University, describes how, while identity categorisations such as class, gender and race have provided us with important tools to interpret the past, deeper historical understanding will involve the...
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Listening To Other Voices
Historian David Armitage (Harvard) describes the importance of looking at a conflict from a variety of different perspectives.
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Conflict and Plot
“Conflict and Plot” will help students to review the value of conflict within a storyline by examining both types of conflict: internal and external.
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Antagonist and Protagonist
Antagonist and Protagonist defines and provides examples of an antagonist and a protagonist.
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The St. Bryce's Day Massacre of 1002
In the year 1002, Emma's husband Aethelred launched a massacre of Danes in England that would come to be known as the Saint Bryce's Day Massacre. This video explains how previous decisions Aethelred made, such as paying Danish...
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Sedimented Meanings
Historian David Armitage (Harvard) describes the importance of trying to unpack the various layers of meanings that have accrued to words and concepts over the course of history.
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Bilingualism and Neuroplasticity
Psychologist Ellen Bialystok (York) discusses the effect that being bilingual has on the brain.
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Attracted by The Unknown
Psychologist Chris Frith (UCL) relates his intellectual motivations that propelled him to the front lines of psychological research.
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Taking the Right Path
York University psychologist Ellen Bialystok describes why she believes that, as a result of the brain’s plasticity, bilinguals have developed a better functioning executive control system that more accurately guides our attention when...