driving‚ but that doesn’t seem to stop people from doing it. Every two minutes‚ a person is injured in a drunk driving crash ( National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). It’s rather scary that so many people die or become injured because of others reckless actions. People will usually focus on the effects of drunk driving and the victim’s family. What we seldom ask is why did they decide to drink and drive‚ Or how the intoxicated drivers family feel. Before people being to spread awareness and want
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The experiment was about people will respond to authority. In the experiment the teacher who is to obey the order of the authority who was the experimenter also the learner who was the recipient of incentive from the teacher. The teacher was given lists of words to teach the student‚ (learner) and the teacher have to read the original word given him also‚ read the four answers. What the learner would do was to press a button to show his answer. And‚ if the answer was wrong‚ the teacher would shock
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"Why do people resort to violence?" "Who shot me? You punks didn’t finish; now you’re about to feel the wrath of a menace‚ I hit em’ up." A quote from late Tupac Shakur and most young men’s anthem and golden rule they live by. Each factor of a person’s life or make up can affect and be affected by another factor. Peer pressure‚ drugs and alcohol‚ lack of intelligence‚ negligence in the home‚ revenge‚ and abuse can cause psychological problems. When the accumulation of negative factors
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knows what it’s like to be in middle school and to all have different and unique identities. Everyone always goes off in their own little groups of people that are all similar. People frequently have to change who they are and their identity’s to be in those groups. We often wonder why other people feel the need to change their identity. Some of the main reasons people change who they are or their identity is because of the way others treat them‚ and so they can fit in with groups of people or be
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Why do people attend college? College is a place that the students can learn more and new knowledge and experience in it. Of course‚ different people have different reason to study in college. For example‚ some people want to be to go on a further study after they graduate from the college; some people hope to find a good job after their studying in the college and also some people wish to exchange their present situation through studying in the college. In my opinion‚ no matter what reason people
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to that question is that there are millions of people willing to spend time and money to watch these events in person and on television. But this raises another question: why are people so interested in other people playing sports? Well‚ it ’s a hard question to answer‚ but there seems to be a psychological need for many to watch these sports every year and to support their favorite teams. It is pondering to some why there are so many people that watch sports almost religiously. They cannot
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People take drugs because they want to change something about their lives. There are many reasons why people do drugs. They want to fit in with other people‚ to escape or relax‚ to relieve boredom‚ to seem grown up‚ to rebel or simply to experiment. They think drugs are a solution. But eventually‚ the drugs become the problem. Difficult as it may be to face one’s problems‚ the consequences of drug use are always worse than the problem one is trying to solve with them. Many people wonder about
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Stereotypes are the way people use to identify and shape others’ characterizations. In today’s society‚ people like to use stereotypes to identify others because they are unable or unwilling to get along with others and then know them. They often get information from others or historical experiences. As the social psychologist Claude Steele states‚ “ Stereotypes are one way by which history affects present life.” He states people often use stereotypes‚ but they don’t know the effects about using
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the unfair treatment of people due to their race‚ age‚ religion‚ national origin‚ or sex. People discriminate for different reasons. The first theory is social transmission; people learn discrimination through social transmissions of prejudices. The second theory is similarity attraction hypothesis (byrne); people like other people who are like themselves based on exposure. The third theory is social identification and categorization (tajfel and turner); people feel like their being treated unfairly
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Most people believe that free will is something that all humans have. Many religions even teach that people have free will. Children are told by their parents that they have free will. However‚ free will is nothing more than a myth. It is only an illusion. Humans only believe that they have free will. The play‚ Oedipus Rex‚ by Sophocles brings this idea up. In the play‚ Oedipus believes he has free will in choosing to run away from the town he calls his home because he is afraid of a prophecy
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