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Emotions in capitalism (and the rise of homo sentimentalis) - social psychology and personal relationships

Intimacies Frozen (2007) is the title of the work in which the sociologist Eva Illouz It is proposed to analyze emotions in the instrumentalization that capitalism has made of them during the last...

Emotional capital, a critique of the theory of emotional intelligence - social psychology and personal relationships

In the second of the conferences that compose frozen Intimidades, Eva Illouz begins by making a comparison between Samuel Smiles, author of Self-help (1859), and Sigmund Freud.While it is true that...

The 6 main types of toxic relationships - social psychology and personal relationships

We have previously talked about toxic relationships, but there is one fact that needs attention: this is a concept that encompasses many different types of situations.That is There are several types...

4 principles that the Toltecs taught us about relationships - social psychology and personal relationships

The Toltecs were an ancient civilization that managed to dominate much of Mexico.Much has been said about their contributions to the history of the development of humanity, and although these people...

Romantic networks - social psychology and personal relationships
April 2024

Romantic networks begins by conjecturing, through the example of the movie You have an e-mail (1998), that cybernetic romances, by shedding "the limitations of bodily interactions (...), would allow...

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Fear of conversations is a factor that can limit the quality of life of many people. There are people who tend to be secluded and isolated in their own mental universe simply because of the fear of...

Polygamy: what is this type of marriage? - social psychology and personal relationships

The polygamy It is a type of marriage that, although rare in territories where Western culture predominates, is present in millions of families around the world.Its most usual type, the polygyny, is...

The psychology of sects: investigating their mental traps - social psychology and personal relationships

The study of sects is one of the most interesting fields of study within the branch of social psychology. But ... what is the psychology of the sects?The case of Charles MansonIn the late 1960s, an...

The experiment of monkeys, bananas and ladders: obeying absurd norms - social psychology and personal relationships

It is a story that many of us have heard in conversations about the acceptance of the rules by the masses.An apparently simple experiment, with a small group of monkeys that are stuck in a cage and a...

Cyberbullying: analyzing the characteristics of virtual bullying - social psychology and personal relationships

Adolescence is a time of change and evolution. In this stage, in which both physical and mental maturation occurs, adolescents begin to move away from the family and authority figures to begin to...