Questions On Time Orientation And Gender Orientation

Chuck Klosterman, in the article “Nostalgia on Repeat,” there is two sides of nostalgia, how it can be good and bad for you. Klosterman, gives examples from both sides. Memories are the past, it is ok to remember them and think about them, maybe even smile from them, just don’t live there. Looking at the past can hinder growth, if a person cannot move on from it and wants to keep reliving that part of their life. The Authors purpose is to shine light on both sides of nostalgia, it is not all bad to remember the past and even flash back to it. However, trying to relive the past is not all good either. It stunts growth and keeps a person from living their life in the now. Chuck Klosterman, writes in a casual tone for those readers that are too

Bryant, F. B., Smart, C. M., & King, S. P. (2005). Using the past to enhance the present: Boosting happiness through positive reminiscence. Journal of Happiness Studies, 6(3), 227-260.

The term ‘retro’ carries a pervasive, if somewhat imprecise meaning; gradually creeping into daily usage over the past thirty years with few attempts to define it: usually used to describe cultural predisposition and personal taste, carrying nostalgic associations. Scientific literature on nostalgia usually refer to nostalgia regarding the personal life. Smell, touch and music are strong evokers of nostalgia, with recollections of one’s past usually being important events, people one cares about and places where one many have spent time. Nostalgic preferences, the belief that the past was better than the present, has been linked to partisanship in memory. The definition of nostalgia has changed massively over time, as it was once being considered a medical condition similar to that of homesickness. However, nostalgia now is considered to be a maverick and

My thesis statement is “This research paper will acknowledge the significance of the hindsight bias role in people’s life through three respective areas: the background information about hindsight bias, the effect of hindsight bias on human’s cognition, and hindsight bias application in reality”. Through this thesis, the readers can know the purpose of my research paper and what I will discuss in the paper as well.

In the reading, “Modern Perception of Time and Acceleration of the Pace of Life”, the author’s argument is that it is essential to pay more attention to the influence of ongoing changes on the life and activity of an individual, on the

There is evidence that East Asians consider the past to be more important in their lives compared with North Americans, whereas North Americans consider the present to be more important in their lives compared with East Asians (Levinson and Peng 2007). This Analytical perception explains why North Americans have adapted slogans or sayings such as what have you done for me lately, or seize the day. There is also the concept that time is money, which explains how one views their time while living in a North American society. One thing that is noted by the researcher is that Analytical reasoning transgress pass just time but also political, social and cultural lines in North America. This theory also explains why North American culture has trends which can be tracked and graphed by sociologist and anthropologist. The theory suggests that as people perceive their future to be more limited, which is often associated with aging, people have a shorter orientation in emotional regulation and prioritize emotional goals that bring shorter term satisfaction (). This comes from the thought that looking at the present is the only chance or way to view or make accurate predictions about the

Time perception is an old as well as a venerable theme in psychology. Importantly, psychology came from medicine and philosophy in 1800 (Gibbon 108). From this foundation, time perception grew to be a fundamental topic of interest to authors and researchers in these fields. The researchers had to investigate the aspects of time in the area of psychology. One of the vital relationships that were discussed is between physical and real-time. In 1920, the tide took another different turn. Behavioral psychologists in the US declared that it was not appropriate for psychologists to investigate such a topic (Gibbon 109). Nevertheless, the

It is important to have a positive relationship with our bodies in order to have a positive relationship with ourselves as a whole. However; there are many biological and societal factors that can derail that. These roadblocks include: social media/societal pressures, peers, culture, and last but most importantly not least, gender. Gender plays a pertinent role in how an individual may view their body. Prior research suggests that a disparity exists between how men and women view their bodies. Women are reported to struggle more with body appreciation, which means the way in which an individual views their body and how they feel others may view it (citation), than men do.

From this, the question of whether or not it’s bad to romanticise the past and if there’s such a thing as being too nostalgic arises. It can be argued that being nostalgic keeps you stuck in the past and prevents you from embracing the present and preparing for the future; also, nostalgia can be generally considered to be a wasted emotion since you can never really retrieve the past regardless of how wonderful and positive it may seem. It is one thing to fondly remember to past, but it’s quite another to long for the past – longing for the past can be considered to be a sign that one is reluctant to face the future and is unwilling to deal with the present; in a way, a form of escapism. The counterargument is that nostalgia is good for you, helping you to relive the past and rejuvenate from recollection of past experiences. Personally, I don’t think there’s such thing as being too nostalgic, I feel as if

Future orientation is when people or group is concerned, plan and organize for the future instead of the

The goal of any good psychology class is to leave students with a better understanding of themselves and others. Psychology of gender is a special topic to most because it is a class based entirely on how we as living social creatures operate, elude ourselves to others, and it delves deep into the underling themes of why and how people naturally form and judge other’s identities. A judgement that is often harsh when people go out of the heteronormative scope of our western society that often leaves negative marks on how someone is able to operate freely within their gender (Purdie-Vaughns & Elbach 2008). One major take home point from a class such as this is that gender cannot be looked at on a sexual binary scale because gender is a lucid

Because insecure-anxious/ambivalent individuals are very dependent on others, when they have nostalgic feelings they feel like people are ignoring

“Attachment to the past becomes a hindrance precisely because of the belief that the past is irreparably lost, making nostalgia a desire without the possibility of fulfillment” (Natali, 2004, p.

Drapalski, 2002) Dating couples more likely to remember that they feel now as they felt

A BTP was originally based on Zimbardo and Boyd’s (1999) cross-cultural data and can be calculated from the five time subscales. A BTP is characterised by high scores on the past positive (4.60), moderately high scores on the future (4.00) and present hedonistic (3.90) and finally low scores in past negative (1.95) and present fatalistic (1.50). Stolarski et al.’s (2011) Deviation from a Balanced Time Perspective (DBTP) measure was used to operationalise a BTP, as it was found to be the most valid method for calculating it (Zhang, Howell & Stolarski, 2013). DBTP is an empirical measure of how far participant’s values, across the five time dimensions are from an ideal BTP value (0). This results in a score for how ill-balanced an individual is. Empirical time perspectives were taken away from optimal time values and the closer to 0 the DBTP value was, the more a BTP an individual had. Each scale deviation can be squared to examine any biases to a particular time orientation. A strength of this measure is that each person received a score for their distance from the optimal time perspective profile. The following formula was used to calculate the DBTP: