Social Science - 14 May 2007

when people take advantage of your presence and your kindness and they basically walk all over you. & you try to be nice and friendly and forgiving, but they always winde up screwing you over again. how can this be stopped without ending a valued friendship [well valued to me at least]...?

2007-05-14 13:34:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I was getting ready to graduate from the 8th grade. We were living with my grandmother at the time and my aunt lived behind her in a mobile home. There is a path that goes back and forth between my aunt and grandmother's house. I was in my graduation outfit walking down the path when this huge snake jumped on my back and wouldn't get off. I was screaming "help help" but my mother, grandmother, and aunt all just stood there watching and laughing at me. What does this mean? By the way, the snake never actually bit me.

2007-05-14 13:27:12 · 5 answers · asked by Tammie 4 in Dream Interpretation

neutral, dont really care, emotionless

2007-05-14 13:25:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

ok, when i tell you this, dont tell me to see a theripest cause i cant.... but anyway. starting a few months ago i had this though in my head. the though was "what if im really not alive? that my entire life is just like a dream or a figment of someones imagnation?" whenever i dont think about it i feel fine and normal. but when the thought enters my head (which is almost all the time) i feel like my whole life, everything, is just not real. and i feel like im not real. but when i try not to think about it cause when i dont i feel fine. but i always do and when ever that thought is in my head, im sooooo miserable because i feel like me, my friends, the, everything is just not real. i cant talk to any one cause i tried telling some people but they just dont under stand, u guys prolly dont understand fully, but i was wondering if anyone had any advice to make me not think about it, or any other advice?
I asked this question before, and i got some pretty good advice. but nothing seems

2007-05-14 13:24:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

1 cheating husband who "accidentally" fell in front of the school bus
2 sicko boyfriend who kidnaps girl on first date in the woods
3 ex con manages to turn an innocent college girl into a bank robber
4 male doctor got Axed by a spurred OBGYN patient

2007-05-14 12:48:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

I have confidence in the science of psychology.
However, I do not have confidence in the business of psychology.

I think there's a pretty good chance that too many therapists are simply in it for making money, as opposed to practicing psychology out of an altruistic desire of genuinely helping people.

How many countless people could be helped if the business factor was not an issue? With rates usually around 100 dollars for a fifty-minute session, it's no wonder the world is going insane. Very few average people can afford that.

2007-05-14 12:35:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2007-05-14 12:35:46 · 12 answers · asked by D-Hizel yo! 2 in Psychology

2007-05-14 12:30:54 · 5 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7 in Dream Interpretation

what is the biggest scientology controversy/scandal.
the dead crazy girl or somthing else?

2007-05-14 12:27:48 · 7 answers · asked by olie b 1 in Other - Social Science

Ok I know this is an odd question but here goes. I am half Chinese and half black. My mother is from Hong Kong and after coming to the US she met my father, who is black, who was in the military. He left us when I was 3.

I have grown up around my mom's family and I have always felt like an outsider. They always made me feel ashamed to be half black, like I wasn't as good as my cousins because they were full blooded Chinese. Whenever I was in the city with my aunts and we would see obnoxious black people, my aunts would say things to me like "You need to be careful to make sure that you don't turn out like that. Don't sell drugs and be a menace to society." Throughout my childhood I always hated myself and wished so desperately that I could somehow get rid of my black self.

Now that I'm grown up I know that these bad feelings are not rational, and that I should not be ashamed of my black heritage, but I can't help it. I just can't get rid of those thoughts. What can I do?

2007-05-14 12:17:34 · 19 answers · asked by John J 1 in Psychology

It would help a lot if you could give me some ideas for it...

2007-05-14 12:08:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sociology

2007-05-14 12:02:57 · 6 answers · asked by STORMY K 3 in Psychology

cutting edge issues , i dont want to write a paper someone else might be doing

2007-05-14 11:58:03 · 4 answers · asked by kid sensation 2 in Psychology

would you or has anyone every done that for you?

2007-05-14 11:56:35 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I'm new in school, and theres only two weeks left, how do I meet new people?

2007-05-14 11:45:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

I would tend to think higher prices would lead to less dicrectionary income and that would be less money going into stocks?

2007-05-14 11:36:23 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

Restaurants have observed that large parties (eight or
more) leave a lower average tip than smaller parties.
Identify the effect, which also makes it more difficult
to reach global environmental agreements, responsible
for this phenomenon.

2007-05-14 11:34:27 · 3 answers · asked by La Flaca 4 in Economics

I find myself having "internal dialogs" all the time. And sometimes I talk to myslef outloud, like if there were two persons within me. Like I ask something and then answer to myslef, or just remind myself of stuff, or just anything. I don't think I'm crazy or anything, I actually enjoy talking to myslef, and it's not like I dont have any friends. But most people say it is weird and in society it seems like it is not quite normal.
So what do you think? do you ever talk to yourself? outloud?

2007-05-14 11:17:22 · 36 answers · asked by Josh 2 in Psychology

if a man become sexually excited when he sees a woman breasts or butts. then what do women become sexually excited in a man?

2007-05-14 11:14:46 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

Are as good as the packages say? How do we know?

2007-05-14 11:12:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

Explain yourself in description and please provide examples.

Thanks.

2007-05-14 10:37:46 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Last night I had a dream where I was at a gas station and getting into my car and this alligator was standing a few feet away looking like it was about to attack me.

I am helping to care for a real alligator, do you think that could be the cause of the dream or does it mean something else?

2007-05-14 09:59:01 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dream Interpretation

A tragic hero is a good person who ends up letting his/her despair destroy them and those around them. They then unravel and do something "evil". Because of their emotional turmoil, they feel their actions are the only way. We can feel empathy for these characters because their story is very human. Given similar circumstances, we might have gone down the same path they did. What are some good examples of a tragic hero? I can think of Anakin Skywalker, Hamlet, and MacBeth...

2007-05-14 09:47:16 · 3 answers · asked by GERMANY EURO CHAMPS 3 in Psychology

2007-05-14 09:37:44 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2007-05-14 09:35:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

For me it's music. i'm just so sad...so give me some ideas :)

2007-05-14 09:12:36 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

It disgusts me that some women that have children don't have the common sense nor instincts to protect, love and care for their babies. Read the newspaper any given day and you will read heartbreaking stories of women abandoning, neglecting and sometimes harming their children, while female animals of all species have an instinct to protect their babies. Why is that?

2007-05-14 09:10:30 · 28 answers · asked by To live is to learn 3 in Psychology

Someone here said "To worry is to avoid being happy". Are there any other nice things to say to someone who worry a lot?

Thanks a lot.

2007-05-14 08:52:07 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Am taking a survey for a school project. Seeing how fears change with age. That is why age and gender are important. Don't forget to include that. Please list at least ten things that you fear the most; MORE is ok too. Examples would be fears of heights, dark, (deep) water, insects reptiles and rodents, enclosed places, public transportation, tunnels or bridges, crowds, public speaking, flying, storms, even death.

2007-05-14 08:48:21 · 34 answers · asked by Cindy O 1 in Psychology

Do you have it or do you know someone who does? What causes it and what can be done to cure it?

2007-05-14 08:45:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies