Thinking Styles

What are some experiences you have had with structured analytic thinking? Relativistic thinking?

Is college for everyone?

Please help with the following questions: Is college for everyone? Do you think that we should encourage some high school students to follow another path? How do you think such decision should be made? and by whom? What changes in social policy would help non-college youth find a secure occupational identity?

Punishment for juvenile crimes is examined.

Why do you think the laws seemingly ignores decades of research on adolescent deviant behavior, its causes, and appropriate remedies? This question is debated.

Deviant Behavior

Most psychologists are clear in their assertion, based on research findings,that adolescents do not need more punishment for juvenile offenses. At the same time, we see more severe treatment of offending teenagers. Why do those who make the laws seemingly ignore decades of research and adolescent deviant behavior, its causes, and appropriate remedies?

This posting examines the other functions of this psychological behavior.

This posting illustrates how self-handicapping preserves self-esteem.