In which way does your social identity influence you? I think that being a girl and a Chinese influences my social identity because this is what defines my identity and it’s who I am. It influences my behavior and how I act towards certain things for e.g. having to be a polite and feminine girl […]

KF suffered from a motorcycle accident which caused damage to his left region of the brain. He showed very poor digit span where he can only remember less than 2 items, but he was good at performing tasks that indict an intact long-term store. For example, he would still be able to store new information […]

Recap what Sherif showed in his Robber’s Cave experiment when the boys were put into contact with each other.  In part two of the study, the researchers introduced conflict through games and the boys started to call each other names, refusing contact with the opposing group and they even turned against their previous friends. Results […]

The surface cultures of Singapore could be using mobile phones at the table, not tipping etc. However, if we want to look at deep culture, we have to consider the values of this culture that would lead to these behaviors. I think my culture would be quite similar to the Singaporean culture as I also […]

How can we reduce conflict using our knowledge of SIT? The SIT is the social identity theory in psychology. The theory suggests a few things: We have a social identity We have more than 1 social identity the salient social identity will affect our behavior 3 psychology mechanism: social categorization, social comparison, boost in self-esteem […]

Why do our identities sometimes become salient?  Our identities become salient when usually the other identity is not obvious. For example, I’ve been living in Singapore for almost 7-8 years already and so I count myself as a Singaporean. However, I am also an American-Chinese because I was born in America and my family is […]

I think that testing on animals is wrong because it is morally unacceptable to harm the animals to investigate the human behavior. However, the 3Rs concept of ethical guidelines can help to minimize the harm created on the animals but often, animals have to go through pain to know the human kind better. I personally […]

The two psychologists I’m going to compare will be Carl Jung and Charles Darwin. Both of them are very famous and have made well-known contributions to the study of Psychology. Carl Jung founded analytical psychology and was best known for collective unconscious which refers to structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among the […]