In recent times there has been a lot of discussion with regard to social psychology constructs such as self-esteem, self-determination and self-affirmation. Due to rapidly changing societies and new insights into cognitive processes of memory formation some old theories of self-psychology have recently been challenged. For example Heine, Lehman, Markus and Kitayama (1999) postulated that […]
Who are you? Okay…easy enough question, but get this one: How do you know who you are? Do you get it right? So many times I meet people that tell me all about them and how they are and when I finally get to know them, they seem to do quite the opposite of what […]
Where are all the Eskimos gone? The question of language and though and its reciprocal influence has been discussed countless times. It goes back all the way to the Greeks and probably even further. In the last 30s of last century the businessman and linguist Benjamin Whorf postulated what would be know as the Whorfian-Hypothesis. […]