Its like this now, relationship = loving and fighting.
Loving = great time together
Fighting = Playing computers games for hours.
3 week without job, want to make money playing games, lol.
Any ideas how to make money? And stop being lazy...?
Friday, July 24, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Thinking
When we came to this world we had nothing. And when its time we'll leave it as we came, taking with us nothing. So the reason why we here must be in giving this world something to admire or someone, to give an inspiration to the others, make this world a little bit better. We have to leave something more than just dust.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Principles of Social Psychology
Context of social interaction.
Main aspects
1. Our shared understanding of social scripts and social roles, and our use of social schemas to guide our actions, from an important background to the understanding of everyday social interaction.
2. Social identity theory shows how membership of and identification with social groups forms a significant part of the self-image, which contributes to and may sometimes determine social interaction.
3. We need to be careful to ensure that social factors such as ethnocentricity, self-fulfilling prophecies and demand characteristics of experiments do not distort our understanding of human beings through social psychology.
4. New paradigm research emphasises the human side of psychological experience, and adopts methods such as account analysis, episode analysis, and action research to obtain more ecologically valid information.
5. Concepts of the self are basic to social psychology, and a number of different models have been put forward. These have often tended to emphasise the importance of social factors in maintaining self-esteem.
6. A number of challenges to Western individualistic views of the self have arisen as a result of wider cross-cultural approaches. These take a variety of forms, but tend to emphasise that the self and the social context are not as independent as has often been assumed.
Conversation and communication.
Main aspects
1. Non-verbal signals contribute a great deal to everyday conversation. Pralanguage, eye-contact, and gestures all contribute in helping us to communicate with other people clearly.
2. Discourse analysis is conserned with examing the ways that people use language to perform speech acts , with a social meaning which often goes beyond the simple statements implied by the words.
3. The study of explanations shows how they are used for social purposes, and will vary according to those purposes.
4. Attribution theory is concerned with the reasons people give for why things happen. Individualistic models of attribution include correspondent inference theory, which incorporates the idea of the fundamental attribution error. This states that people will tend to make dispositional attributions about the behaviour of others, but situational attributions about their own behaviour.
5. Covariance theory is concerned with how such features of the situation as consistency, consensus and distinctiveness may influence attributions. It has been criticised for failing to include social purposes or previous experience.
6. Studies of attributional styles have shown how the dimensions of controllability, stablity and internality (among others) may help our understanding of how people see their worlds, and may also contribute positively to therapeutic intervention.
7. Interesst in social and group attributions has linked with Moscovici's theory of social representations, to look at how shared beliefs and explanations may develop and be distributed in society.
Interacting with others.
Main aspects
1. Studies of audience effects show how people tend to behave differently when others are present than they will do if unobserved. These differences include social loafing, in which less effort is made to contribute to a common cause if many others are also contributing.
2. The law of social impact proposes that the amount of influence people can exert depends on three factors: the strength, number and immediacy of those exerting social pressure. The principle was derived largely from studies of bystander intervention.
3. People have been shown to prefer to conform to a majorty rather than confront them, even when the majority are wrong. However, this appears to dependd on circumstances such as the perceived importance of the issue. Other research shows that a consistent minority can exert considerable influence on majority judgements.
4. Studies of obedience suggest that people will obey authority figures even if it means putting the lives of others at risk. Milgram's agentic theory of obedience suggests that participation in hierarchies involves a suppression of individual autonomy and conscience. However, studies of rebellion show that people will resist authority if it is clear that they are being manipulated to do something morally wrong.
5. Studies of group processes include investigations of group polarisation, in which groups judgements are either riskier or more cautious than those made by the same people acting as individuals; and groupthink, in which members of the group define their reality and make decisions on that basis, without reference to real external social forces.
6. Studies of leadership have distinguished between task specialists and social-emotional leaders, and have found that groups tend to choose those leaders most appropriate for the task. Some studies suggest that representing group values and beliefs may be of central importance to successful leadership.
Main aspects
1. Our shared understanding of social scripts and social roles, and our use of social schemas to guide our actions, from an important background to the understanding of everyday social interaction.
2. Social identity theory shows how membership of and identification with social groups forms a significant part of the self-image, which contributes to and may sometimes determine social interaction.
3. We need to be careful to ensure that social factors such as ethnocentricity, self-fulfilling prophecies and demand characteristics of experiments do not distort our understanding of human beings through social psychology.
4. New paradigm research emphasises the human side of psychological experience, and adopts methods such as account analysis, episode analysis, and action research to obtain more ecologically valid information.
5. Concepts of the self are basic to social psychology, and a number of different models have been put forward. These have often tended to emphasise the importance of social factors in maintaining self-esteem.
6. A number of challenges to Western individualistic views of the self have arisen as a result of wider cross-cultural approaches. These take a variety of forms, but tend to emphasise that the self and the social context are not as independent as has often been assumed.
Conversation and communication.
Main aspects
1. Non-verbal signals contribute a great deal to everyday conversation. Pralanguage, eye-contact, and gestures all contribute in helping us to communicate with other people clearly.
2. Discourse analysis is conserned with examing the ways that people use language to perform speech acts , with a social meaning which often goes beyond the simple statements implied by the words.
3. The study of explanations shows how they are used for social purposes, and will vary according to those purposes.
4. Attribution theory is concerned with the reasons people give for why things happen. Individualistic models of attribution include correspondent inference theory, which incorporates the idea of the fundamental attribution error. This states that people will tend to make dispositional attributions about the behaviour of others, but situational attributions about their own behaviour.
5. Covariance theory is concerned with how such features of the situation as consistency, consensus and distinctiveness may influence attributions. It has been criticised for failing to include social purposes or previous experience.
6. Studies of attributional styles have shown how the dimensions of controllability, stablity and internality (among others) may help our understanding of how people see their worlds, and may also contribute positively to therapeutic intervention.
7. Interesst in social and group attributions has linked with Moscovici's theory of social representations, to look at how shared beliefs and explanations may develop and be distributed in society.
Interacting with others.
Main aspects
1. Studies of audience effects show how people tend to behave differently when others are present than they will do if unobserved. These differences include social loafing, in which less effort is made to contribute to a common cause if many others are also contributing.
2. The law of social impact proposes that the amount of influence people can exert depends on three factors: the strength, number and immediacy of those exerting social pressure. The principle was derived largely from studies of bystander intervention.
3. People have been shown to prefer to conform to a majorty rather than confront them, even when the majority are wrong. However, this appears to dependd on circumstances such as the perceived importance of the issue. Other research shows that a consistent minority can exert considerable influence on majority judgements.
4. Studies of obedience suggest that people will obey authority figures even if it means putting the lives of others at risk. Milgram's agentic theory of obedience suggests that participation in hierarchies involves a suppression of individual autonomy and conscience. However, studies of rebellion show that people will resist authority if it is clear that they are being manipulated to do something morally wrong.
5. Studies of group processes include investigations of group polarisation, in which groups judgements are either riskier or more cautious than those made by the same people acting as individuals; and groupthink, in which members of the group define their reality and make decisions on that basis, without reference to real external social forces.
6. Studies of leadership have distinguished between task specialists and social-emotional leaders, and have found that groups tend to choose those leaders most appropriate for the task. Some studies suggest that representing group values and beliefs may be of central importance to successful leadership.
Thinking
Time to set some goals
I think this is almost impossible to find what are you for in this world in several months or even a year. Now i think it will come while you moving forward, and you really shouldn't search for it on purpose. Just search what you enjoy in this life and move to that things.
I think this is almost impossible to find what are you for in this world in several months or even a year. Now i think it will come while you moving forward, and you really shouldn't search for it on purpose. Just search what you enjoy in this life and move to that things.
Praise the Sunrise!
Made my self a goal yesterday. To go this morning to the park and take some sunrise pictures. What for? Cause life is passing by and i would like to capture a moment, escape regular routine. A little step on a road of changing my life.
So the first thing that comes in my head when i wake up this morning. Why its freaking 5 am, and my alarm is on?
Then i turn it off and realize that its half an hour before sunrise. But why, is there any point in it and I'm so sleepy, just want to say "may be next time" and go to sleep. I lay for 10 minutes forcing my self to wake up "what a lazy ass" and finally did it.
5 minutes later I'm driving to the park on the ocean shore.
How beautiful it is. And memories hit me, when i was in summer sport camp, all this morning exercises, fresh forest air. Getting camera out, trying to take some pictures and it says low battery, OMG. Manage to take 2 pictures and forgot to turn off flash. So the quality is really crappy. And then the battery completely goes empty.
But looking at this beauty, hearing birds sing, and calming water you really understand its not about pictures, or forcing your self to go some where at some time, It all in the moment, enjoying your Life.
Two ducks fly near me in slow motion, and land on the water. And this happens every morning, every day of our life, while we sleep...
P.S.
Made one of the pictures a wallpaper, just to remind, that its all possible.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Nice!
First message should be short and informative.
Live the Life you want,
be the One You choose,
Its a New World.
Live the Life you want,
be the One You choose,
Its a New World.
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