According to Freud, much of our behaviors and the decisions we make are influenced by the unconscious mind. Our perceptions of good and bad will play a role in our decision. To further complicate the problem, our brains are naturally wired to take short cuts and make quick assumptions, such as trying to determine if a person is a criminal. Specifically, Jones and Harris explain that we have a tendency to judge others more harshly and blame their behavior on their own internal characteristics whereas we judge ourselves more lightly and blame our poor behavior on situational characteristics. Unfortunately, we often make attributional biases when examining behavior. Our brain quickly dumps ideas into вЂњgoodвЂќ or вЂњbadвЂќ buckets. If, for example, a choice is presented in a way that highlights our potential losses, we will view that option more negatively whereas, if the same option is presented to us in a way that emphasizes gains, we will view it more favorably. According to Kahneman and TverskyвЂ™s prospect theory, our decisions are impacted by the way choices are presented to us as well as our cognitive response to our potential losses. The light/dark pairing also echoes the ways in which we make choices in our lives and judgments about other people. If there are two sides, then they are two sides of the same coin. And, if we enlarge our view, we will find that little if anything is completely one state or the other. In short, it may be our imperfect, subjective, and limited perspective more than anything else that determines whether something is light or dark, good or evil, positive or negative, and so forth. Indeed, it may be the perspective of the observer rather than any absolute, inherent quality of the observed that prescribes meaning. Yin and yang may not be so much fixed properties as they are fluid possibilities and momentary manifestations. Another implication is that everything shares both qualities and nothing is purely yin or yang.

Each contains the seed or possibility of the other. Rather than operating as two discrete, separate forces, yin and yang are complementary. You may be less familiar with the philosophical interpretations of the symbol. The stereotypical gender assignments notwithstanding, the yin and yang concept expresses a very important theory of creation, personality, and psychology.ДЄ common example is the yin and yang symbol, which you have probably seen before. Whereas light, active, male energy forms yin energy, yang energy is formed from dark, passive, female energy. In various Chinese cosmogonic myths, light and dark have a prominent role as essential features and forces of the universe. HesiodвЂ™s Theogony says that вЂњFirst of all, the Void came into beingвЂќ and вЂњout of Void came Darkness and black Night, and out of Night came Light and Day.вЂќ Even the Big Bang, which originated from our modern mythology of science, is described as an explosion of light. We are told that вЂњthe earth was without form, and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.вЂќ Later, вЂњGod said, Let there be light: and there was light.вЂќ Ultimately, вЂњGod divided the light from the darkness.вЂќ So initially, in this telling, darkness and light are connected-if not one-and later divided. For many Western readers the creation of the universe given to us from Christianity is well-known.

Between light and dark