Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life published the following articles in June, 2010.
Some wonder how the modern talk radio hosts have managed to capture and maintain such a large audience. Some even argue that some balance in programing ought to be imposed on station owners. But the fact is that the audience the popular radio hosts play to was out there all along.
If we don’t come to our senses and find the right balance fairly soon, nature is likely to do it for us.
Are we going to have to invent some new words to “delete” from normal conversation and save for the moments we really want to make an impact?
Manipulation — the art of hoodwinking people into giving you what you want — is an age-old problem. And dealing with manipulative behavior requires something more than the well-worn perspectives of traditional psychology.
While so many things are chillingly accurate, there is one thing that bothers me about the portrayal of psychpathy in US television drama Dexter: it’s the way the writers seem to explain how such people get to be the way they are.
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