The Relationship between the Big Five Personality Traits and Academic Motivation This article titled ‘The Relationship between the Big Five Personality Traits and Academic Motivation’, written by psychologists Komarraju and Karau, sets out to analyze the potential of personality traits in the pursuit of academic...
My biggest fear is heights I have a fear of heights. Acrophobia or fear of heights is one of the most common phobias in the world. It is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up....
Shaza Samy is an entrepreneur than represents various executives and managerial conducts that make her an excellent leader, and qualify her to manage and operate her own business. Education wise, Shaza has been in two schools during her past 12 years, Choueifat and El Alsson....
Why do people have phobias? People tend to have phobias as they stem from bad experiences in their lives. One bad encounter might leave people scarred for life. Phobias are an intense feeling of dread that are physiological feelings that many hold. Although people might...
Music has been man’s companion from time immemorial. The closely knitted relationship between man and human underpins the fact that music is not just about entertainment. Music has touched human life in ways beyond description. Music has been a company to man in the days...
Management is the administration of a company, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Personnel management has been formulated over the years and includes staff motivation as a part of the science. Therefore, motivation is a process of persuading a person (especially an employee) to do...
Optimistic Bias: Innovation Through Creators Hope: used to encourage and convince ourselves of a better future or outcome against the odds. It is the light at the end of the tunnel. It lives in the dreams of the innovators of our future. It is the...
Self-fulfilling prophecies and confirmation bias work together to build pictures of the world that are both true and false. When we want something to be true, we only seek information that validates such a belief. Our prior notion about something determines what we discover about...
This report aims to explore different ways in which motivation levels and moral amongst managers, admins and staff can be increased; it will explore different ways to improve the emotional state of the workforce and to decrease staff sickness. Motivation has been defined as the...
I adjusted the drum throne one more time before looking at my conductor, nodding my head to signal that I was ready. As she counted in the tempo feelings of nervousness began to take over; doubt, fear, and the urge to play every passage, every...
First of all, it would be an honor for me to introduce myself. I am a self-motivated individual born and raised in a lower-class family from a remote village of Sindh, who has recently completed his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Preston University...
Vibrant. Focused. Energetic. These are the words I would use to describe myself, as I know they reflect the progress I have made in my life. During my time at school, I found various topics difficult to learn. Until one day, I tried learning a...
From a very young age, I had aspirations of becoming an engineer, because I wanted to build machines that did not require direct human energy inputs to operate. I achieved this for the first time a few weeks later, designing a vehicle that carried its...
Paul Broca was a French physician, anthropologist, and an anatomist. He specialized in the study of speech. His major discovery was of “Broca Area”. Broca area is also called convolution of Broca. It is the left hemisphere of the brain that contains neurons and these...
Research into the concept and assessment of intelligence, clearly indicates that no universal consensus exists. On the contrary, many theories and much research have emerged with understanding continuing to be investigated and debated. Despite the breadth and depth of research there still exists no standard...
This study aims to investigate the influence of the social media on self-esteem and body image in both males and females, aged between 18 and 30 residing in the northern part of the country (Delhi). The social media in today’s time has come to become...
In the recent past, with regards to a 2007 which was carried out in the United States, anxiety disorders were the most prevalent form of mental illness, with about 40 million grown-ups aged above 18 years – an equivalent of 18.1% of the total population...
Introduction John Searle’s book Mind makes a significant impact on the concept of rational action and offers insights into the issue of free will. The book also marks a shift in John’s thinking since he published The Rediscovery of the Mind in 1992. He explores...
A mood is a feeling or a person’s specific state of mind at any particular time. A mood is also the prevailing emotion found not only in people but also in literature, music, and other expressive arts. Moods set the overall tone for speech or...