The Johari window model is a psychological tool that’s meant to illustrate and increase self-awareness and an understanding of group dynamics. It is a graph (featured above) that shows four quadrants to focus on during self-reflection: People using the tool are asked to reflect on all four of these windows in groups, having others provide […]
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The social reaction theory, also termed the labeling theory, focuses on the way a majority group’s act of labeling a defiant person negatively (often as a ‘deviant’) pushes them to more deviant acts. When an act is labeled as deviant by society, a chain of events is set in motion further pushing the individual into
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Human capital refers to the value human beings contribute towards achieving the set goals of a given organization. In other words, human capital is the value that human beings possess in the form of skills and abilities which can then be used to produce a desired output. Examples of human capital include knowledge, qualifications, education,
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Survivorship bias is when the entities in a sample exist because they have survived an elimination process. This is a type of sampling bias and can unduly influence judgments about a given phenomenon. Researchers may focus their attention on cases that have survived a criterion instead of considering all cases originally involved. The famous statistician
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Masculinity refers to cultural ideas about the physical and behavioral attributes of idealized men. Men learn to embody masculine traits through gender socialization at a young age. Most social scientists believe masculinity is a social construct, meaning these ideals are imposed by society and culture. As a result, different cultures have different ideas about what
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Femininity refers to the stereotypical cultural characteristics of women, including roles and behaviors which have nothing to do with the biological sex. Unlike biological sex, femininity is considered a social construct that’s taught to girls at a young age through gender socialization. In fact, if we look around the world, we can see that different
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The circular reasoning fallacy or circular argument is a type of petitio principii (assuming the point) argument. It is a formal logical fallacy based on the structure of the argument. As the name suggests, the structure of the argument is logically circular. It’s related to the begging the question fallacy. Each premise in the argument
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Humility is a trait where you esteem yourself lower than what you really are—it does not mean the absence of self-esteem, but rather not putting yourself on a pedestal above others. Humility is the absence of arrogance. Humble people do not have an attitude of self-importance. There are many situations where you can say that
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Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or information. Today, we use it to define someone whose political and moral values are shallow and even offensive. Ignorance is also defined as the state of a person going through cognitive errors, particularly cognitive dissonance. It is a type of mental discomfort when the person is conflicted between
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Social behavior are the behaviors that we develop because we’ve been influenced by the people around us. They are learned behaviors, and are often beneficial for society. Positive social behaviors refer to behaviors that are in accordance with social norms and expectations. Negative social behaviors refer to behaviors that might lead us to be outcast
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