Essays on Behavior

Child Development Research In the following essay I hope to introduce the reader to the topic of attachment theory. I will hope to achieve this by looking at attachment theory from a chronological perspective. Attachment theory has its origins in the seminal work of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby. In the 1930’s Bowlby was working...

Language is the basis of human communication as it is a complex system that creates interpersonal and intercultural connections. Language has the power to unite us, however, it also has the potential to divide people through a lack of understanding and miscommunication. In this essay, I will argue that language within institutional encounters such as...

What are power and authority? As stated in the Cambridge University dictionary, ‘Power – is the ability to control people and events’ and ‘Authority – is the moral or legal right or ability to control’. Due to these definitions, it means that someone who has power and authority is generally called a ruler. Power and...

Delegation of authority is one of the cutting edge patterns rehearsed by chiefs. It is work stands out contributing and increasing the degree of inspiration of employees and achieving positive returns for (an association with a supervisor) and (a worker with a client) both. On the degree of an association, it accomplishes the upper hand,...

The best time to start was yesterday. According to the American Physiological Association, a survey done by psychologist Piers Steel shows that 80 to 95 percent of college students postpone their course work (Novotney). I am part of that percentage even though I was not surveyed, and I know this because I have been experiencing...

The role of emotions is a crucial factor in exploring one’s perception of procrastination. TMT theory argues that decision-making is an integrative approach comprised of time, impulsiveness, value and expectancy (Ainslie and Haslam, 1992). Hence, an employee is emotionally involved while relying on the expectation of the result, the value it represents for an individual,...

Procrastination is a highly researched psychological construct which was first mentioned as early as in ancient Greece and has been scientifically developed for around half a century (Knaus, 2000). However, to date, the definition of procrastination has remained a widely debated topic, and there is no single, universally accepted interpretation of the term. As noted...

The following two arguments regard the concept of morality of the human race and whether or not it is something which can be easily classified into groups of unmoral or moral or in Ruth Benedicts case, a concept which cannot be classified simply as black and white and therefore, cannot be used when describing human...

Parents are early role models of children in acquiring values, habits and attitudes of a society (Scherer et al. 1991b). Prior research suggests that having entrepreneurial parents causes higher entrepreneurial intentions (Scherer et al. 1989b; Hoffmann et al. 2015; Geldhof et al. 2014; Chlosta et al. 2012; Wang and Wong 2004; Boissin et al. 2011;...

Perception is essentially a man’s reaction to the world around him; he processes everything around him and forms opinions based on it. It is is ‘man’s primary form of cognitive contact with the world around him. As all conceptual knowledge is based upon or derived from this primary form of awareness, the study of perception...