Cashless payment at the unmanned gas station, automatic check-in at the airport, ordering on the computer – today, many transactions are possible without personal contact. This makes it all the more important to ensure that the person in question is who they say they are. Preventing acts of terrorism, secure online banking…. Security and the … Biometrics: Show Me your Eyes?
A basic characteristic of humans is their eye color. Whether brown, blue or green – this is also shown in the passport, among other things. But why do people actually have different eye colors? Iris and pupil The iris or iris skin is the colored part of the eye and is virtually an aperture for … Why do People Have Different Eye Colors?
The classic field of application for conversational psychotherapy is the so-called neurotic diseases, which include anxiety, depression, psychosomatic diseases, sexual disorders, etc. It is also considered a successful treatment method for addictive disorders, personality disorders and psychotic disorders. Outpatient treatment In outpatient treatment, the therapist usually schedules a 50-minute session once a week. The average … Psychology of Conversation: Talk Therapy
Rogers, unlike Siegmund Freud, held an optimistic view of man, namely that of Humanistic Psychology. According to this, man is a being who strives to realize his inner possibilities and to develop his creative abilities. In the end, human nature always tends towards the good, and undesirable developments arise in an unfavorable human environment. The … Psychology of Conversation: Self Actualization
There are a number of aspects that need to be illuminated in order to evaluate biometric methods. They concern not only the methods themselves, but legal and economic aspects are also important. No biometric method offers absolute recognition security. On the one hand, this is due to the method per se – the matching of … Biometric Methods: Discussion Points
In order for procedures to be used for personal identification, various requirements must be met: The characteristics may only occur in one person (uniqueness), should occur in as many people as possible (universality), should not change or change only slightly over a period of time (constancy), should be as technically simple as possible (measurability), should … Biometrics: License Plate and Identification
What does successful psychotherapy look like? Carl Rogers, an American psychologist, had spent years observing therapists and counselors in their practical work. Successful psychotherapists, he found through audio recordings, primarily listen carefully, make virtually no statements of their own, summarize in between or at the end of the conversation what they believe they have understood … Psychology of Conversation: Listening, Appreciating, Encountering
If a child falls down and hits his knee, the parents suffer with him and often even feel the pain. If we meet a person on the bus who smiles briefly at us, this makes us spontaneously smile back and can sometimes put us in a good mood for the whole day. The question now … What are Mirror Neurons?
Communication has always been – and still is – an important part of the exchange between two people. However, not every conversation is a true dialogue. What characterizes a good conversation and what are the prerequisites for it? The American linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson describe a genuine dialogue, i.e. an exchange between two … From Dialogue: the Art of Having Good Conversations
About two million people in the Federal Republic suffer from psoriasis. This is a reaction disorder of the skin, which manifests itself as inflammation and scaling in very different forms, but is not contagious or infectious. According to bathing regulations, people with psoriasis were prohibited from entering public swimming pools until 2005. However, today they … Psoriasis: Swimming in the Pool Allowed
Nina is the celebrated star at every birthday party: not only can she make great faces, but she can also wiggle her ears. What is nowadays performed for entertainment at parties and celebrations and mastered only by very few, was in earlier times for all mammals, to which we humans also belong by genus, an … Why Can Some People Wiggle Their Ears?
What do you do when you’re thirsty? Simple question, easy answer: drink something. But what if your body needs water without signaling it? This is the case for many older people – whether they live at home or in an elder care facility. Lack of fluids in old age Dry mouth, dry mucous membranes or … Too Little Fluid in the Elderly
