Essays on Life

Dr Tamar Gendler’s lecture on virtue and habit provides an Aristotelian perspective on character formation. The lecture makes a connection between philosophical perspectives on virtues, and the normative and descriptive laws that guide people’s habits. Dr Gendler suggests that character is formed by connecting normative laws with descriptive laws –...

Teaching as a Profession Teaching is a profession that requires persistence and patience. The teacher requires training from the initial stage to the final step. This makes teaching a continuous process. It involves learning new things and applying the same to the learners. Attitude, belief and disposition is mandatory to ensure...

Personality assessment tests are tests done on individuals to evaluate their strengths and talents.  These tests are very useful especially to employers as it helps them discover the personal strengths of their workers. The tests also help people in finding their life partners, and medical professionals in diagnosing mental health...

In the chapter, Happiness and Immorality, Cahn and Murphy bring forth arguments that explain the happy immoralist and the unhappy immoralist respectively. In particular, Cahn presents a fictitious persona whose primary objectives include gaining fame, reputation, and wealth. However, the person employs dishonest tactics which are immoral in his pursuit...

Reliability of Raters Reliability of raters entails the consistency of a set of variables to assess the different types of scores' stability. The reliability index of a test score indicates its stability, which may imply the test-retest, internal consistency or inter-rater reliability. Testing reliability of raters can be done through inter-rater...

If market forces of supply and demand are directly dependent on consumer behavior; then there is need to understand human personality in entirety, before linking the same to consumer habits in the markets. On the one hand, behavior has been defined as all individual traits that make someone unique, while...

When it comes to discussion of the personality traits, it is necessary to underline the most evident of them, namely, conscientiousness, neuroticism, benevolence, extraversion as well as openness to experience (Hughes, Rowe, Batey " Lee, 2012). Neuroticism refers to the measure of emotional control, which focuses on the tendency to...

Choosing career at the earliest stage in life is one of the aspects that determine the future. Notably, there are various factors that determine one’s career choice such as passion, employment prospects, and advice from career educators, counselors or family members. Critical to underscore is that the need to make...

Attainment of higher education correlates with individual’s abilities in terms of talent and hard work. However in Australia this is not the case since political, economic and races influence the suggested meritocratic system. Social economic demography for instance opposes the suggestion. According to records, it’s evident that rich families get...

I managed a score of 55.56% in the lying test. The score was rated as satisfactory, which was worse than I had expected. I had hoped to be able to identify lies more easily. However, the current score suggests that I would not be in a position to identify an...

In the current society, children are raised in a technological world. Having a mobile phone and means to access internet has become a ‘basic ‘need for most children especially in adolescent years. Parents are sometimes out of options and compelled to buy and allow access to mobile devices and internet....

Psychology of personality uses some of the highly regarded and most used trait theories to explain human traits. According to Allen and DeYoung (2017), knowledge about people’s characteristics is imperative for determining individual traits which are not directly observable. In particular, psychologists often make conclusions about an individual personality by...