Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Evolution, Psychology, and Horror, Part V

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 Copyright 2012 by Gary L. Pullman   Note : This post assumes that you have seen the movie The Exorcist (1973). If you have not, Wikiped...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

Evolution, Psychology, and Horror, Part II

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 Copyright 2021 by Gary L. Pullman Source: Wikiepdia Note : This post assumes that you have seen the movie Backcountry. If you have not...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Evolution, Psychology, and Horror, Part I

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Copyright 2012 by Gary L. Pullman   Source: kickstarter.com According to evolutionary psychologists, human behavior evolved through adaptat...
Friday, February 7, 2020

"Eros and Evil": A Review of Medieval Beliefs about the Sex Lives of Witches and Demons

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Copyright 2020 by Gary L. Pullman   In Eros and Evil: The Sexual Psychopathology of Witchcraft , R. E. L. Masters supplies a focuse...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Horror Fiction: The Appeal of the Need for Affiliation

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Stephen King 's novels are prime examples of horror fiction that appeals to readers' ne...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Explaining Roderick Usher

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman . . . getting in touch with one's feelings is not always a great thing. — Kevin J. Hayes, The...
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Edgar Allan Poe: Character Studies or Depictions of Aberrant Behavior?

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Egaeus, the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's “ Berenice: A Tale ,” which was published in the...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

The Protagonist as Leader

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman From the earliest days, since the time that the theory of the four humours was popular among ancient shri...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Characterization via Tarot

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman Using the Tarot deck as a shorthand system for establishing the bases of characters can be as effective as...