Why do we do the thing that we do?
The main question and the key question of world wide psychologist is "Why do we do the things we do?" From what I know, it depends on many aspects, such as the environment, the motivation and thought, and the past experience of the people.
First, the environment inflences people to do different things. When people live in different environment, they tend to do different things due to the culture, the religion, the history and many other aspect of the environment they live in. Different culture lead to different action and reaction of people's behavior, because of the meaning of the action. For example, hugging in some of the Western countries means a kind of greeting, therefore hugging is not seen as anything bad and can be seen fairly commonly. On the other hand, in Thailand, hugging mean showing of love. If you hug a person from the opposite sex on the street, you will be the center of attention to many people, often not in a very good way. Different religion also determined different behavior due to different in beliefs and teachings. Some easy examples will be why Buddhists give things to the monk, why Christians go to church every Sunday, and why Islams need to go to Mecca once in their lives. History also sometimes a factor that make people do the things they do. History is the building blocks of culture. Throughout the history, many events defines many things people do. For example, I believe that the Islamic terrorism that happens nowaday is due to the war in the past, the Afghans War.
Similar to how environment shape up the people's ways of acting, the thoughts of the person also determine why they do the things they do. Motivation, ways of thought, personal set of ethics, these things came from how people think and want. The workers who recieves more wages tend to want to work more; a student who will get a reward for good grade tends to study harder are some of the common examples. Another example is one of the experiment about patient who took a medicine which the doctor says will cure the disease, which really the medicine doesn't have any effect, but the patient did gradually get better due to the thought that he or she will get cured. The way people thinks have effects on the action they did, too.
Another reason the I think makes people to do the things they do is because of the past experience. Why people some people do bad things and other do good things is because their past build them differently. Why do some people steal while some do charity; it's because of the way people are raised and taken care of. Good family, good experience lead people to do good things while bad family, bad experiences make them to do things that can be really horrible. An example is a person who often tend to hurt his wife violently has the childhood as a child with father and mother arguing violently. Therefore, I do think that the past of a person also determine why he or she act the certain way.
Well, for me, I think these are the main reasons why we act the way we act.
PS. Guess I just wrote too long again. Sorry. ^^
First, the environment inflences people to do different things. When people live in different environment, they tend to do different things due to the culture, the religion, the history and many other aspect of the environment they live in. Different culture lead to different action and reaction of people's behavior, because of the meaning of the action. For example, hugging in some of the Western countries means a kind of greeting, therefore hugging is not seen as anything bad and can be seen fairly commonly. On the other hand, in Thailand, hugging mean showing of love. If you hug a person from the opposite sex on the street, you will be the center of attention to many people, often not in a very good way. Different religion also determined different behavior due to different in beliefs and teachings. Some easy examples will be why Buddhists give things to the monk, why Christians go to church every Sunday, and why Islams need to go to Mecca once in their lives. History also sometimes a factor that make people do the things they do. History is the building blocks of culture. Throughout the history, many events defines many things people do. For example, I believe that the Islamic terrorism that happens nowaday is due to the war in the past, the Afghans War.
Similar to how environment shape up the people's ways of acting, the thoughts of the person also determine why they do the things they do. Motivation, ways of thought, personal set of ethics, these things came from how people think and want. The workers who recieves more wages tend to want to work more; a student who will get a reward for good grade tends to study harder are some of the common examples. Another example is one of the experiment about patient who took a medicine which the doctor says will cure the disease, which really the medicine doesn't have any effect, but the patient did gradually get better due to the thought that he or she will get cured. The way people thinks have effects on the action they did, too.
Another reason the I think makes people to do the things they do is because of the past experience. Why people some people do bad things and other do good things is because their past build them differently. Why do some people steal while some do charity; it's because of the way people are raised and taken care of. Good family, good experience lead people to do good things while bad family, bad experiences make them to do things that can be really horrible. An example is a person who often tend to hurt his wife violently has the childhood as a child with father and mother arguing violently. Therefore, I do think that the past of a person also determine why he or she act the certain way.
Well, for me, I think these are the main reasons why we act the way we act.
PS. Guess I just wrote too long again. Sorry. ^^
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