Psychosocial Roots of Supernatural and Analogous Beliefs

1A: Supernatural and Other Beliefs, Aimed at Improving One’s Life (and Afterlife), which Presuppose that People Have Free Will Traditional Examples: All religious beliefs which involve obtaining the blessing/avoiding the curse of various deities and spirits. All folk beliefs about avoiding/resisting various seemingly natural monsters (e.g. that dwell in the forests or various bodies of...

Human Subjectivity and its Psychosocial Roots

All people appear to share a number of universal personality traits (e.g. lust for life, desire for mental peace, fear of the unknown, fear of believing falsehoods, etc.), which, if indeed universal, may stem from one or combination of the following factors: certain aspects of universal human life experiences (esp. in childhood), certain aspects of...

Psychosocial Similarities and Differences between Contemporary Trophy Wife/Girlfriend, Contemporary Wife/Girlfriend, Contemporary Escort, and Pre-Contemporary Wife

Definitions Contemporary trophy wife/girlfriend – A type of a woman who, out of her own free will and desire, carried on a romantic/sexual relationship with a man primarily for its material benefits to her (and status and sexual satisfaction benefits to him) in Western countries (i.e. urban settlements in Europe and North America) in the...

Social/Political Values, Personality Traits, and Political, Commercial and other Interest Groups and Organizations in Western Countries in the late 20th/early 21st Centuries

In Western countries, in the late 20th/early 21st century, left wing political ideology was heavily based on the social/political values of individual equality and, to somewhat lesser extent, individual freedom and independence. Consequently, left wing politicians and interest groups of that era, gathered public support by greatly exaggerating the prevalence, or inventing the existence of...

Feminist Claim: Sexualisation of Women by the Media

Feminists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries frequently claimed that women were being ‘sexualized’/’sexually objectified’ by the mass media. Given the political roots and objectives (discussed below) of this claim, it is not surprising that it was poorly conceptualized/defined. However, the idea was based on the observation that some images of women used...