The application of psychology has divided itself into two primary formats. Those who perform therapy and are trained to think in treatment format and those who are into pure research without any application of treatment. This will be an examination of research with limited emphasis on the statistical concepts of how to identify variables, which when the statistics are added those variables become part of equations. However, the math's part is not present, just the identification of variables. This begins with an understanding of what western culture is based on, the good and the bad aspects of what western culture has done historically. No matter where the researcher is located in the human’s species, what culture they come from, what culture they are examining, the overwhelming majority of the research is based on the cultural perspectives of western society. To start the examination after the established baseline of what western culture is, every person up to and through each progressively larger and larger group until the entire homo sapiens sapiens species is included. They all create a 3-category set of rules for what is acceptable and know. Those categories are A, B, and C which will be discussed. Once those rules and regulation categories have been established it is then time to apply the three primary health tools used to identify problems and then ?????????????????????

Happiness is a concept that is one of the most difficult in all of psychology to define. Every individual has different things that make them happy, cultures are the same. Not all large groups of people belong to the same cultures. Any large culture is a collection of smaller groups and cultures, some of whom might have vastly long histories, some have a very short history. How much happiness in each group/culture depends on both the individuals in the group and the group itself’ s happiness factor that is also a huge factor.

Overall happiness is as difficult to define and describe as love. Because of this, discovering a new culture and being able to recommend any type of happiness improvements for the culture will require a huge amount of time and effort. Happiness is like any other x factor concept, the x factor in mathematics is in the very definition “undefinable”, it is not all that different than trying to balance both sides of the HUP concept.

You can know where an object is, you can know how fast an object is traveling. but you cannot know both of those facts at the same time. Happiness is as definable as HUP, you can know a few of the details at any one given point, but those details and data will change subject to enumerable amount of different situations.

You have to also deal with another aspect of HUP. “An object under observation will be default be changed by that observation”. In essence how someone or a group feel about being observed will change the what they consider to be happiness.

three factors of happiness

What do the individuals in this culture consider happiness. Sub questions, do they find individualism to be a type of happiness, do they find collectivism to be a type of happiness. Example some people are entirely comfortable with whatever the groups decisions are. They are entirely happy and content to do whatever the group decides. From the greatest good to the greatest evil, as long as the group is happy, they are happy. Example Mary Koch was entirely happy with her position and her husband. Despite being in a location some of the people around her were in what can only be described as evil incarnate. She was happy, her fellow friends were also very happy.

What definition for happiness does each group define as happiness. Being able to define happiness for the collective, what is happiness for each group, what is the balance between individual happiness and group happiness.

Cultures Three Groups

First thing that must be addressed is the groupings. All peoples and cultures divide themselves into three categories. Of course, there is some overlap based on peer pressure and other various Milgram proven intimidation factors, but the majority of the facts are starting with individuals, all individuals as they grow in life create three categories of behavior patterns. Group A, B, and C; which are organized as follows.

Group A

Each individual on the planet builds a set of rules and regulations that are divided into three sections. What they absolutely positively think are good things, and little to nothing can dissuade them from thinking Group A category of actions and thinking are anything other than good.

Group B

Category B are actions, and behaviors that are in the grey areas. Actions that are sometimes ok and sometimes absolutely not ok in most situations. Example in western society post 1950, if a female asks a male “do these jeans, make me look fat” the grey area is to reply “no, you look great in those”. It in some cases is technically speaking a lie, but it is a little white lie to ease the feelings of the person asking. The person knows how they look, but they need peer reinforcement to convince them solidly their cognitive dissonance that balances the reality of the situation with the need for emotional reaction. At times speeding is also within the realm of grey area decisions, most drivers do not stick perfectly to the posted speed limit, for in many cases it would be considered reckless driving to exit a freeway moving at 75 mph then suddenly press the brake very hard to slow down to 25 as quickly as possible. The chances of causing an accident are very high. This is where the behaviors and peer pressures of Milgram can take absolutely not acceptable in any form Group C actions and turn them into either B and or even A actions and behaviors. This equation format is where to find unhappiness in a culture. People using the 3 primary tools of psychology to justify their actions.

Group C

Actions which have been determined in all ways, shapes, and forms minus extreme issues and situations to be bad actions. To either never do or only do under extreme duress. Example if a burglar is coming into your home to murder and rob you, taking lethal action against is an acceptable in almost all ways bad action. Self-defense is acceptable to use lethal force. However, in most other cases, the use of lethal force is not only unacceptable, but the culture usually reacts in a rather negative to the maximum way. Usually the punishment for the use of lethal force is imprisonment and or the culture uses lethal force against the individual, sometimes group.

The human species universally is wired to have the following responses.

Conditioned Response (CR)

The easiest example to present what conditioned response is the experiments that proved the condition species wide. The Russian researcher Pavlov proved that if he rang a bell before feeding his dogs, his dogs after a while of repeating the bell ring every time he fed them, the dogs would begin to salivate.

Consequently, when exploring a new culture, the first thing to do is find out what the cultures CR’s are to find out what type of function and structure individuals and the group itself respond to. What conditions have the individuals and the groups accepted as group A type motivations for modifying beyond. What type B motivations are grey area motivations, and what type C are unacceptable behavior modifications that do achieve the goal, but the actions are considered either very bad and or acting against most rules of societally acceptable formats.

Operative Conditioning (OC)

The story of B. F. Skinner and his Operative Conditioning. The tools Skinner found in the textbook Wundt wrote decades before were straight out of the Trojan War. Wundt had been a serious scholar from a young age specific to the subject of “the Classics” that are centered on the books of Homer directly related to a multitude of aspects from the Trojan War named The Iliad. There are between 3 and 10 different versions of the Iliad specific to which culture are supposed to read them.

The Iliad is a collection of stories that detail a tale of genocide and a 20-year heroic escapades of a group of cultures convinced to perform crimes against humanity, all based on the use of violence, lies, cognitive dissonance, and genocide level hatred of Jews. The authors have taken the words of the nom de plume “Homer” and turned what should be considered a holocaust and turned it into a solid story where the incredibly bad behavior of a central character “Paris” steals the wife of the brother of one of the Trojans fiercest enemies Agamemnon. However if you compare the cultures side by side you will see that this fiction and the fictions (Skinner box tools) employed to force the war and to force western culture to believe the fictions which Agamemnon and the author Homer have forced western culture to accept have no basis in reality. The Trojan War in some aspect did occur, but it was a task designed to find and kill disobedient Jews. Trapped in a box, to escape the box (Skinners Box) you have to perform x action, all other actions will result in both pain and eventually death. However, being able to exit the box also results in some degree of pain. It is up to the thing trapped in the box to decide between death, pain then death, or some pain and escape. Most cultures have some degree of Skinner box applications to live within the rules and regulations of the culture itself.

This leads to stress disorders, which leads to a myriad of both individual and group behavior patterns. Some of which are good and some of which are to varying degrees of violent.

Reaction

When the above tools are used, especially Skinners techniques (Skinner Box; examples if you break a rule of the culture in the wrong way, you have to go through the “pain” of a culturally created and accepted punishment/pain process. If you speed at the wrong time and place, you have to go through the pain of a ticket, if you say steal from a store {and are caught}you have a harsher more defined form of punishment which could include humiliation, arrest, being booked, jail, and a criminal record.), etc. All of which amounts to a suppression of personal will and possibly some form of nature nurture needs not being fulfilled. When a nature behavior pattern is suppressed, that behavior pattern tends to come out hard, uncontrollably, and in a lot of cases violently. The individual usually has little to no conscious idea why they are doing what they are doing.

Which leads to unhappiness disorders that for most people they have no idea why they are unhappy, they just are.

Nature versus Nurture

Nurture is what a person or a group are taught are the proper rules and regulations for living ones life. Nature is what most people do based on a wide variety of internal structures forcing thoughts and actions within the person and group. Nurture can be unlearned and redirected towards better and more healthy behavior patterns. Nature behavior patterns can only be redirected away from unhealthy patterns and towards healthier patterns. This balance is part of the essence of happiness. Happiness is when a person’s nurture and nature are in balance and the person can achieve the goals that make them happy. However, depending on the culture they live in, depends on how much of their happiness they have to suppress in order to function in the groups of people they have chosen to be around.

Solution Policies

Solution One

Apply proven crime wave statistical models for this new culture, bullies and the like usually take advantage of any and all gaps in a cultural breakdown when chaos occurs. Assist law enforcement to help keep extra violence during the chaotic translation to a minimum. Although it is also a key component for the health and safety of a culture to identify the “bad apples” in law enforcement. identify and remove the “bad apples” from the group in order to ensure a smoother transition. a body of good enforcement will not add to the issues and problems but deescalate problems. De-escalation is the key to a culture’s mental health.

Solution Two

Identify each separate group in the new cultures A, B, and C groupings. Those groupings will allow for a smoother and happier transition into a better healthier way of living for all involved. Example since sexual abuse in some cultures is not only prevalent but, in some ways, encouraged and socially acceptable; apply the psychological lessons from the world of kink and /or deviant sexual behavior. If most of the people involved have been put through mandatory instruction classes regarding what exactly is their wants, needs, and desires in the intimacy areas, each person in the culture can and will produce a healthier way to interact with themselves and others on an intimate level. Everyone will have a better idea what their intimate wants, needs, desires are. Instead of operating from mostly ignorance, when people interact with each other they have at least a base dialog structure from which to compare notes. This by default will produce a healthier community.

Solution Three

For the general rules and regulations for living together have each major and minor group create a written list of what actions versus if each action falls into category A, B, or C individually. That way each group can then be able to cross compare the paperwork of what they think individually then compare with other individuals what they think are actions divided into the 3 categories. This will bring about a huge amount of health and happiness into a culture, since it will allow people to truly examine what their priorities are and then examine others priorities. Then add the collections together, which the CR and OC of each individual and groups peer pressure over time will change answers. This will bring about a huge amount of happiness to all involved. Even those who refuse to participate, they will be identified and their refusal to cooperate will bring others happiness since they know those individuals have set privacy or secrecy boundaries. When you know what and where a boundary is, everyone else has a better idea how to interact with said boundary.