There are so many areas of psychology, but my favorite is dark psychology. This study of human behavior on how a person preys on the other. Manipulation and coercion are staples of what dark psychology is all about. There is so much I could say on this subject, but what I love the most is looking at how people’s mentality plays on how people behave. This is how dark psychology works, and it’s looking at how people’s behavior is affected by their mentality.
For example, a person is raised thinking that anyone who does not believe in their religion is evil. They may go out on a killing spree because they were raised and how they think. There are so many behaviors that we can look at that come down to how a person thinks, and when we look at where their thinking comes from, we begin to realize how they got the way they did.
Analyzing and looking at this dark psychology helps me in writing. Because when I am writing a character, I have to know the possibility of how they become the way they are. You cannot just write about killing without some back story. And that is where dark psychology helps out.
Thoughts?
