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  Do people have to be enemies to be in conflict? Does being in conflict make people enemies? Interpersonal conflict exists whenever two or more people disagree. Conflict occurs between friends and lovers as well as between competitors and enemies.  The discord  may be caused by a simple misunderstanding, or beliefs. Because conflict is an unavoidable aspect of interactions, it’s essential to know how to deal constructively with it. Many people assume that any kind of conflict is inherently bad and that it should be suppressed if an at all possible. In reality, conflict is neither inherently bad nor inherently good. It is a natural phenomenon that may lead to either good or bad outcomes, depending on how people deal with it. When people see conflict as negative, they tend to avoid coping with it. Of course, some-times avoiding conflict can be good. If a relationship or an issue is of little importance to you, or if you believe that the costs of confrontation are too...

  Suppose your boss bawls you out for doing sloppy job on an insignificant project. To what do you attribute your boss’s tongue lashing? Was your work really that bad? Is your boss just in a grouchy mood? Is your boss under too much pressure? In assessing what a significant individual is like, people are particularly interest in learning why the person behaves in a certain way. This deeper level of understanding is vital if one is to make accurate predictions about the person’s future behavior. After all, when you are looking for a roommate, you don’t want to end up with an inconsiderate slab. To determine the cause of others behavior people, engage in the process of casual attribution. Attributions are interferences   that people draw about the causes of their own behavior, other’s behavior, and events. When people ascribe the causes of someone’s behavior to personal disposition, traits, abilities, or feelings, they are making internal attributions. When they impute the...

  Would you be surprised if I told you that a group of psychological disorders costs hundreds of billions of dollars each year, kills more than 500,000 people annually and is implicated in street crime, homelessness, and gang violence? Would you be even more surprised to learn that most of us have behaved in ways characteristic of these traits at some point in our lives? You shouldn’t. Our 21st century is preoccupied with the addiction such as Alcohol , drugs, food, sex and gambling. Explanation for addiction often have consisted of blaming individuals for their excessive engagement in these behaviors. Scientific theories and models for explaining and understanding addictions have existed only for the past 100 years. As advancement of neuroscience linked the study of addiction and brain activity to make the understanding more clearer and evident. Many different theories and models of addiction have been proposed. The most prominent explanatory models include : Social Models Genet...

  What if a person’s characteristic ways of thinking and behaving cause significant distress to the self or others? What if the person can’t change this way of relating to the world and is unhappy? We might consider this person to have a personality disorder . Unlike many of the disorders, personality disorders are chronic ; they do not come and go but originate in childhood and continue throughout adulthood . Because these chronic problems affect personality, they pervade every aspect of a person’s life. For example, if a person is overly suspicious, this trait will affect almost everything he or she does, including their employment (they may change jobs often if they believe coworkers conspire against them), their relationships (they may not be able to sustain a lasting relationship if they can’t trust anyone) and even where they lives, specifically in the case of women (they may move often if they suspects their landlords out to get them). Most of us are sometimes suspicious ...