Archive for the 'Psychology' Category

Session 72 - Different approaches

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Organisational Psychology - a mix of :

  • The person in working psychology
  • Different approaches (5x)
  • Different thoughts, same situation
  • Psychoanalysis, Humanism, Traits, and more
  • A question regarding your interest in this podcast
  • Famous people today: Freud, Jung, Rogers

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Session 71 - Organisational Psychology

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

The start of Organisational Psychology:

  • Organisations, Characteristics
  • Formal Organisations
  • Structure and open systems
  • Metaphors
  • Changing organisations
  • Famous people today: Duncan, Perrow, Taylor, Fayol, Weber, Payne, Pugh, Woodward, Cummings, Silverman, Kotter, Morgan, Cooper, Austin Knight, John Ruskin

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Session 70 - Helping and cooperation - part 2

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Today’s podcast. Here is what we discuss today:

  • Processing in helping: systematic/ superficial
  • Spontaneous or volunteering
  • Personality differences
  • Help that hurts
  • Increasing prosocial behavior - 6 times
  • Famous people today: Deaux, Stark, Clary, Davis, Penner,Millar, Millar, Tesser, Fisher, Nadler

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Session 69 - Helping and cooperation - part 1

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Today’s podcast. Here is what we discuss today:

  • Helping, when and why?
  • Noticing and deserving
  • Responsibility
  • Helping and your genes
  • connectedness, empathy and altruism
  • Social identification and cooperation
  • Famous people today: Batson, Dovidio, Piliavin, Gaertner, Schroeder and Clark

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Session 68 - Aggression and Conflict- part 3

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Today’s podcast. Here is what we discuss today:

  • Resolving conflicts
  • Altering perceptions and reactions (3x)
  • Negotiation
  • GRIT, trust, cultural differences
  • Superordinate goals
  • Famous people today: Bell , Baron, Berkowitz, Ross, Nisbett, Osgood and Etziono, Lindskold

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Session 67 - Aggression and Conflict- part 2

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Today’s podcast. Here is what we discuss today:

  • InterGROUP conflict
  • realistic conflict theory, social competition, relative deprivation
  • escalating conflict - polarisation & commitment
  • threats
  • perceptions on in-group and out-group members
  • Final solutions - how things go really bad
  • Famous people today: Brewer, Runciman, Wright

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Session 66 - Aggression and Conflict- part 1

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Today’s podcast. Here is what we discuss today:

  • Is aggression genetical, or is there more?
  • Interpersonal Aggression
  • Instrumental vs emotional aggression
  • Norms, TV, guns, models
  • Systematic and superfical thinking
  • Important names today: Klama, Bandura, Berkowitz

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Session 65 - Interaction in Groups - part 3

Monday, February 20th, 2006

Today’s podcast. Here is what we discuss today:

  • Leadership - task and socioemotional leaders
  • Stereotypes and leadership
  • Charismatic leaders (Jesus, Mohammed)
  • Group communication - computer members
  • Important names today: Eisenhower, Weber, Fiedler, Hollander, Freiberg

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Session 64 - Interaction in Groups - part 2

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Today’s podcast. Here is what we discuss today:

  • Group development (5 stages)
  • Effects of time on group processes
  • Group performance
  • Social loafing, motivation, coordination, the workplace

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Session 63 - Interaction in Groups - part 1

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Today’s podcast. Here is what we discuss today:

  • Social facilitation
  • Evaluation apprehension and distraction
  • monitoring and performance
  • crowding

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