Physical psychology.

Physical Science and Common-sense Psychology

Scott Sehon argues for a complex view about the relation between commonsense psychology and the physical sciences.1 He rejects any sort of Cartesian dualism and believes that the common-sense psychological facts supervene on the physical facts. Nevertheless he asserts that there is an important respect in which common-sense psychology is independent of the physical sciences. Despite supervenien...

Psychology in the Physical and Manual Therapies

The overlap of physical medicine and psychology has been a personal and academic interest for many years. Undergraduate programs have tended to focus on the " rats and stats " rather than on the human-to-human interactions. There has been a paucity of available material. A recent text edited by Kolt and Andersen and published by Churchill Livingston has resulted in a wonderful resource for the ...

Psychology, Social Psychology and Risk

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...

Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology