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Visit Psychologist World

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Psychologist World is a new site that provides interesting and in depth exploration into a variety of areas of relevance to human psychology are explored. Those of you interested in psychology either as a scientific study or as a method of self exploration will find it worth you while to visit this free site, which includes many interesting areas of which the following are a few examples that caught my attention:

• Personality Tests: Try free online interactive test discover more about your personality and characteristics...
• Psychology of Emotions Why do people and animals experience emotions, and what makes us experience different types of emotions. Psychologist Ian Heath explores emotional states (right) and the link between the sub-conscious and our feelings...
• Dreams & Dream Interpretation: Information on why we dream, meanings of dreams in the Dreams Dictionary and more...
• Memory Psychology: Theories of Memory, how we remember, forgetting and how to improve your memory
• Body Language: What it is? how to read it, ways to refine your own body language

According to the folks at Psychologist World:

Human communication is 20% verbal and 80% non-verbal so if you are saying something to a person but your body language says the opposite then you're not getting your message across. This section contains a range of resources to help you master body language, understand what signals mean and to improve the signals you want to give out to convey ideas.

Psychologist World does a good job of communicating on difficult to understand areas of the human mind!

Art and Personality -- Take the Test

Link for this Post: Art and Personality Experiment  -- Take the Test on the BBC

I just got finished taking the Art and Personality test which is actually an ongoing psychological experiment on the BBC Science and Nature website. 

In the first section of the study, you view and are asked to rate a series of paintings from a variety of periods and styles including Impressionism, Abstract, Japanese art, Islamic art, Northern Renaissance and Cubism.

You are shown a series of paintings from each of these genres and asked to state your preferences.

The aim of the study is to discover correlations between people's preferences for art and their personality. 

In the second portion of the study,  you answer questions about your personality.

The results guide you through your preferences among the various art genres. Then you get a personality analysis based on Five Factor Model. According to the researchers,

The Five Factor Model is one of the most reliable scales in personality research. It has good reliability across time – people's scores don't change much over the course of a day (as moods change) and remain reasonably consistent over many years.

The personality questionnaire takes about 10 minutes to finish. The length of the entire questionnaire is 15 minutes.

After you are finished, you get a complete analysis of your personality based on the Five Factor Model. Your art preference is also revealed. Based on the results of your personalty profile, examples of the genres of art most common to your personality type, based on the results of the study so far.

I enjoyed this brief excursion into the world of art and personality and recommend it..

Emotions Manager 2000 Windows Cognitive Therapy Software FREE Software Download

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Free Download Emotions Manager 2000 Windows Software (Via CNET)

FAQ Emotions 2000 Software

One are of mindware that I do not get to write about much is therapy software. However one program I've been watching is called Emotions Manager 2000. I just discovered that this well constructed windows program based on "cognitive therapy" has become freeware so you will have a

"How to Read People" on Life Training Online Weblog

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How to Read People (part 1 of 3)
How to Read People (part 2 of 3)