Psychological Articles

Mood Swings for Baby Boomers

 As baby boomers get older, they find they must deal with all kinds of emotional roller coasters. The pitches and rolls that take place in later life can cause the emotions to go into freefall, producing mood swings reminiscent of the tantrums and depressions experienced in adolescence. These moods can...

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Marketing to Baby Boomers

 Baby boomers are the largest, most educated and wealthiest consumer group in America. They are the people born between 1946 and 1964. These people have more disposable income than any other group. The best way to entice them into purchasing your product is by providing comprehensive services that are in...

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Narcissistic Loss for Baby Boomers

 Narcissism is a complex personality trait usually seen as a dysfunctional aspect of a person’s psyche. Baby boomers suffer with the symptoms of narcissism like anyone else.Narcissistic need is something that must be fulfilled if the sufferer is to gain any satisfaction. When that need is not fulfilled, the result is a...

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Obama Apologizes To Europe For American Arrogance

An open letter to the President of the United States:“Dear Mr. President: It is not America that is arrogant; it is you who are arrogant. That has become increasingly obvious with each of your public appearances. It might nevertheless be a good idea for you to take a moment to...

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Online Optical Illusion Based on Size

 In the wide range of online optical illusions available on the Web, many of them are based on the relative size of the visual elements in a visual frame. The perception of the visual elements is not an independent action. We perceive a visual element in connection with other visual elements. The...

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Online Optical Illusion Due to Retinal Rivalry

 The human eyes are very complex in both their structure and function. This complexity often leads to the creation of optical illusions, including online optical illusions. The retinas of the two eyes act as two independent monocular fields. These fields try to gain supremacy over each other. There are numerous online optical...

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 Online Optical Illusion: Café Wall Illusion

 Café Wall Illusion is a classical online optical illusion; reported in 1979 by Professor Richard L. Gregory and Priscilla Heard of The University of Bristol, England. They derived this pattern from a pile of white and black ceramic tiles on the front wall of a café at St Michael’s Hill, Bristol....

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 Online Optical Illusion: Hermann Grid

 Contrast is an important element that contributes to the formation of online optical illusions. The Hermann Grid is one of the most popular optical illusions that is based on the element of contrast. In the Hermann Grid, the effect of contrast produces an illusion of a new color apart from the...

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Online Optical Illusion: Experience and Perception

 To a very great extent, our visual sense is not “objective” in that there is not a perfect one to one ratio between what we see and how we make sense of what we see. In fact, oftentimes our brain interprets what our eyes perceive based not solely on the visual stimuli...

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