Read Part I here. Health Effects of Perfectionism Indeed, as a personal quality of high achievers, perfectionism can often be used as a tool to transcend one’s limitations, but its effects can also be debilitating in the extreme. Take the example of the pianist...
Throughout the world, perfectionism is a personal quality that has been both idealized and denigrated in equal measure. Films such as “Amadeus” (1984) and “Shine” (1996) were both hugely successful meditations on the relationship between...
One of the breakthroughs in behavioral science, known as Conditional Learning Theory, came about in the early 1900s through the work of a Russian scientist named Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). Most people have heard references to Pavlov’s dogs, or Pavlovian theory, but...
What motivates humans to take action? This has long been a fascinating topic for students of human behavior. One of the most important contributors to this area of psychological research is Abraham Maslow, who published a paper laying out his groundbreaking...
