Current trends in psychology

In conflict resolution you should

Avoid total destruction and threats of other person

Do consequences matter with negogiation ?

The steeper the consequences less likely an agreement will be made

Few schools designed to discuss resolutions

Conflict Resolution at Colorado University , Program to negotiate at Harvard

Attritubutes

Cause of behavior

Two types of attributes

Dispositional and situational

Dispositional attributes

Internal (ex. Reading a book for own knowledge , eating because your hungry)

Situational attributes

External (volunteer to impress a girl)

If you fail who will you blame

External

Casual determinists

Happened to for a reason

What is more effective

Hiding

Should you be more emotional or less emotional

More emotionals

Alfred Kinsey

First to do research into human sexual behavior

What did Kinsey create for homo/heterosex ?

Sexuality scale

0 on sexuality scale

Totally straight

6 on sexuality scale

Totally gay

Kinsey was a

0 , 1, 3 ,4 on sexuality scale never becoming a 6

What book did Gynecologist Robert Dickson write ?

Thousand marriages

Who did Dickson interview ?

Top 30 of female patients

How did dickson inspire kinsey ?

Kinsey read his book and was convinced to do Sex research

What did Kinsey do in CHicago in 1939 ?

Interview gay men by 1949 kinsey had interviewed 14,000 people regarding sexual history

What did Kinsey tell Irvin Bieber ?

Therapy does not cure gayness , he then quit therapy

Magnous Hirschfield said

Not all transvities are gay

Kinsey found 96%

Under the age of 20 masturbated

According to Kinsey’s research

25-33% men have had homosexual experiences , oral and premarital sex are common , 17% of farm workers had sex with animals

Sexual peak age for women

30

Sexual peak age for men

15-17

How man penis did Kinsey measure

12,000

Average penis size

6.2

Biggest penis size

12.5 inches at 19 years old

Smallest penis size ?

2.5 inches

Who had the most sex and why?

Men wit smallest penis , wanted to prove themselves

How many men have had at least one homosexual experience ?

37%

How many men are exclusively homosexual

4%

During masturbation 73% of semen

Leaks out

During masturbation 25%

Semen travels a short distance

During masturbation , 2%

Semen can reach 8ft

In Kinseys second book Human Female he found :

Women are not influenced by pornograpy ,women do not fantasize during masturbation , women are not involved in S&M , women have less fetishes ,women can take long breaks from sex

What do we still use from Kinsey’s research today ?

No connection between being left handed and gay ,when AIDS hit women had less sex

Criteria to work for Kinsey

MD or PhD, american , middle aged ,must be willing to have sex with Kinsey , no strange names , must be willing to give full sexual history , wife must be willing to give full sexual history , cannot be religious , previous homosexual experience

Doctor Earl Marsh

Interest in S&M and hooked up with Kinsey