This term describes people who have not internalised the values of society, are constantly in trouble, are indifferent to others, are impulsive, and have little concern for the future or remorse about the past. They feel no GUILT or ANXIETY about their criminal behaviour. 

Often referred to as a psychopath or sociopath.

Information feedback to individuals about their biological functions. Using biofeedback, it is possible for people to gain a certain amount of control over such functions as heart rate, blood pressure and brain waves through a kind of OPERANT CONDITIONING process.

A phrase used to describe a great upsurge of research, theorising and applications using a COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY perspective which began in the 1970s and was especially prominent in European psychology. This was part of a broader movement in COGNITIVE SCIENCE stimulated by developments in artificial intelligence and INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY that led to an increasing sophistication in the study of MIND.

The process whereby people are linked together in a socially cohesive group, used especially of the emotional bonding between mother and infant.

In SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, the extent to which the communicator of a message is believable. Thought to be related to whether the communicator is perceived as expert and trustworthy or not.

French physician and early PSYCHOTHERAPIST whose use of HYPNOSIS to reach the depth of his patients’ problems led him to the conclusion that all NEUROSES had sexual roots. However, he bowed to his Victorian ethos and never made this conclusion public. One of his students was SIGMUND FREUD who, as well as adopting his teacher’s methods and conclusions, did have the courage of his convictions and made his beliefs public.

In PSYCHOANALYSIS, the regulation of the REPRESSED material in the UNCONSCIOUS to see that nothing threatening to the EGO is allowed to escape into CONSCIOUSNESS. Censorship is apparently relaxed during sleep when repressed material is expressed in the form of DREAMS.

From the Latin for ‘about a day’, this refers to those BIORHYTHMS which function on roughly a 24-hour cycle, like sleeping and changes in body temperature and blood pressure.

See BATTLE FATIGUE.

A PHOBIA of confined spaces.