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Originally Posted by Apteryx
I am very suspicious of absolutes used about human behaviour - they are always based on studies on a limited set of people. Brown seems to have a bit of a narrow outlook and I would take what she says with a grain of salt.
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Originally Posted by pachyderm
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All generalisations are false!!
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Originally Posted by stopdog
I would take everything written by anyone about psychology or therapy with a whole box of salt.
Even the second statement is questionable. I read all of these sorts of things with a "so far we have/have not found" added to them - "So far, there has been found no correlation between..."
But admittedly, I do not believe in absolutes in general. In psychology they are just ridiculous.
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Well, sure, it isn't really possible to prove a negative with absolute certainly, is it. But given that there are plenty of examples of people who exhibit one of the traits and not the other one, it doesn't seem to fill any practical purpose (other than to make some people feel like non-people) to claim that the one depends on the other.