Social Science - 16 February 2007

Have people been watching Dateline's "To Catch A Predetor"? It's just amazing to me the constant flow of men that seem to lose all common sense in the seach of sex.... and in these cases, with children! It's become too much of a regular thing in our world today to not question otherwise normal men for making these kind of choices and some how ignoring what is right and wrong. It's like they get an erection and lose a "brain"! Any doctors care to address this one?

2007-02-16 06:24:37 · 1 answers · asked by DESPERATELY SEEKING SANITY!!! 4 in Psychology

What is the right psychology term to describe this? Imagine a person who is very passive/unassertive, and lets himself get taken advantage of, used, or disrespected. He is aware of it, but is too nice or unassertive to speak up about it. He bottles his true feelings about it for a period of time, until he cannot take it any longer and has an aggressive outburst. Usually the person's aggression will be a "delayed reaction" to something that happened a little while back, which he'd never reacted to but now highly regrets having been taken advantage of. This is similar to Jim Carey's character in "Me Myself & Irene" but not as severe...no split personalities involved. My friend says it is "passive-aggressive," but I thought that was something different. I'm talking about someone who bottles up their anger/resentment, and the longer that the anger is bottled up and/or the disrespect is tolerated, the more amplified the outburst is later on. Is there a term for this "abnormality"?

2007-02-16 06:22:23 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

cash on top of a bank machine, would you honestly return it expecting a financial reward,.?

2007-02-16 06:21:06 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Are we just living in the after-life and when you die is that when you are born so the after-life is really our life and our life is really our after-life but if our life is really our after-life and our after-life is really our life wouldn't that make our after-life our before-life???

2007-02-16 06:19:53 · 7 answers · asked by Scooby_Doo 1 in Psychology

Nature/nurture just dont cut it sometimes. Birth order? Defective jeans? Ideas?

2007-02-16 06:16:43 · 9 answers · asked by Feee 1 in Psychology

Seriously, I saw one of my neighbors at Blockbuster today with her kid and said "hello" and she looked at me like if I grew a second head.

I just don't get it. Some of the best things in my life I've learned from strangers like fast, legal money. :)

2007-02-16 06:16:12 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

a secret society called the "illuminari", the evidence he has compiled is staggering. How do broach the subject of - internet+weed = dangerous?

2007-02-16 06:15:58 · 10 answers · asked by amos 3 in Psychology

My friend and her mom don't get along too well. My friend has her moments like anyone, but is a normal sane person. For quite a few years now, my friend's mom is convinced that my friend is "psycho" and has something "wrong with her."(in reality, my friend went thru the rebellious stage that most teens go thru...I don't think her mom understood that completely, since she is a very strict parent) She kept telling my friend she needed counsellingIt got weirder and weirder. One day, my friend's mom tried to convince her that every memory she'd ever spoken of, was a figment of her imagination. My friend's mom even went so far as to attempt to convince her daughter that various relatives and real-life people never existed, and only existed in the daughter's head!(my friend's mom was lying) Why would her mom do that? Isn't there a disorder where parents try to convince others that their children are ill? Does this "disorder" apply to convincing others that their children are MENTALLY ill too

2007-02-16 06:15:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Ok, this is life, getting born, growing up entering KG to qualify to school which qualifies to college which qualifies to work which qualifies to getting money which qualifies to raising your children and the sequence starts again with your children...
have you ever thought what is your real mission in life, is anything worth fighting for? Me and many ppl I know try to be perfect, but for what reason? I say stop being perfect, stop trying to change everything and just live the moment because i started to feel the shortness of life
what is your opinion on this topic?
Just think about the things you lose by time, i think everything in life needs too much sacrifice

2007-02-16 06:15:00 · 12 answers · asked by 123 3 in Psychology

2007-02-16 06:14:06 · 17 answers · asked by Inno 3 in Sociology

2007-02-16 06:14:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

do you think that the points on answers (or other similar things) will replace currency?

or

is there a supply or demand for points here?
if so, what does it get you?

2007-02-16 06:08:01 · 1 answers · asked by famousfailure 2 in Economics

Please help me with this question! Thanks!

What is the belief that the proper subject matter of psychology is objectively observable behavior and nothing else?

2007-02-16 06:07:32 · 2 answers · asked by B 2 in Psychology

I am doing a research paper on the origin and migration of man. I have searched all over the Internet for information, but I cannot find anything objective. There are no evolutionists who take a fair look at creationists and no creationists who take a fair look at evolution. Can anyone help me?
In reality, I am mainly looking for just the facts, not all the fights and controversies. I just want to know where, when, how, why, etc. man evolved/began and migrated. All I find is based on another study. I want firsthand observation and study. I am desperate. Everything is so confusing. Please tell me if any of you have anything. I could use websites, books, and essays. Thanks!

2007-02-16 06:04:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Anthropology

2007-02-16 06:03:25 · 3 answers · asked by iguama808 2 in Anthropology

I will be sleeping and I'll wake up and see someone in my room. I've seen a bunch of different things. I've seen a little girl standing by my bed. An old man standing next to my bed, one standing at the end of my bed. I wake up and I'll see someone, or something floating over my bed, usually its not very clear. I've seen dark shadows floating in my room. Last night I woke up and someone jumped out and scared me, I screamed, and woke my husband up. Its been getting worse. It used to happen only once or twice a year, now its happening like everynight. Does anyone have this, or know why its happening? I don't know if I'm still dreaming, or what because I am awake, and in my room. I don't feel like my house is haunted. It has a very peaceful feeling. I've lived in a place that had ghosts, so I think I would know the difference. My mom has this too sometimes. She's seen someone climbing in her window, a spider coming down from the ceiling, and an Indian with a wolf, and more

2007-02-16 06:02:03 · 8 answers · asked by Stephanie W 5 in Psychology

I went on a field trip monday to a prison for my Criminal Justice class and near the prison was a hopsital for "crazy" people. I was just wondering if anyone knows some of the characteristics of a person who needs to be there and what they have to do to be considered "insane".

2007-02-16 05:59:29 · 5 answers · asked by weseemedtheperfectsong 1 in Psychology

while measuring a persons success.. do we count his acheivements or the path he has choosen? ofcourse i'm not talking abt the tooo insane ppl..

2007-02-16 05:53:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2007-02-16 05:53:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

this is a serious dream that i really had and i want some real answers.
i dreamt that i was just sitting around and this girl comes up and from out of nowhere i just start touching her and a little while later we begin to kiss.
I wanted to ask it on here because all of the online dream dictionaries only had interpretations for watching people kiss, and waking up right when you are about to kiss.

please tell me what this dream could mean, thanks.

2007-02-16 05:44:10 · 10 answers · asked by Ghost 3 in Psychology

Focused on global name recognition across all demographics

2007-02-16 05:43:28 · 4 answers · asked by My Query 1 in Other - Social Science

i have to have everything perfect, i chew each bite of food 15 times, no more no less, and my room can never have a speck of dirt, i vaccuum several times a day, and when i write something, it has to be just perfect, no flaws, am i a perfectionist?

2007-02-16 05:37:16 · 11 answers · asked by Tiffany 1 in Psychology

2007-02-16 05:35:14 · 20 answers · asked by angel 2 in Sociology

In a day to day sense?

2007-02-16 05:31:08 · 5 answers · asked by tunachunks199 1 in Psychology

2007-02-16 05:28:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I wrote down prehistory in my notes as: when there is a comprehensible language then its prehistory, and if we can't figure out their written language, then its not considered prehistory. But apparently I thought I would remember when its considered history. But I don't. Anyone know?

2007-02-16 05:19:05 · 7 answers · asked by nokhada5 4 in Anthropology

I know someone who can be so smart and understanding at times, then at other times seems to do anything she can to be mean and hateful. Really cruel! Trying to hurt others as much as possible, and not even making sense. She attacks children as well as adults,strangers as well as people she knows. Anything she can do to upset as many people as possible and seems to take great pleasure in it. Then, suddenly, she seems to be a nice person again. She seems to go back and forth like this. What do you make of this?

2007-02-16 05:17:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Is This A Clear Indication That Women/Men Are The Primary Caretaker Of Children?

2007-02-16 05:17:44 · 9 answers · asked by Trishcia 1 in Gender Studies

I am just curious to know if an exotic dancer can be self respecting, faithful and trustworthy. I was raised that if a woman was willing to use her body than her intelligent that she doesn't respect herself. Also, I would think stripping would lead to other things such as Escort; Prostituion; Porn and so forth, is this usually true or am I just sterotyping?

2007-02-16 05:15:11 · 2 answers · asked by truegenarius 1 in Psychology

2007-02-16 04:59:37 · 4 answers · asked by S 1 in Sociology