epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Colin Wilson & Damon Wilson [Wilson, Colin]

Ensslin was paranoid and broadly wrong; but it’s hard not to sympathise with her misunderstanding, remembering the mendacious world that she grew up in. And it was the German baby ...

epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Mercier, Hugo

Is Bias Always Bad? How should cognitive mechanisms in general go about producing sound beliefs? Part of the answer, it seems, is that they should be free of bias. Biases ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Pascal Boyer [Boyer, Pascal]

The Psychology of Exchange However limited compared to modern commerce, prehistoric trade demonstrates that humans had at some point developed the specific psychological capacities that make it possible to exchange ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-04 | Author:Stephen T. Asma [Asma, Stephen T.]

We’ve tuned the theory as best we can, at this juncture. Some of our instruments are more obscure than others; some intonation is dodgy, some strings missing, and valves broken. ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michael Tomasello

“I” and “You” As young children interact collaboratively with others as a “we,” they come to understand and relate to them differently. Most importantly, collaboration implies a certain level of ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Randolph M Nesse

Social Anxiety and Self-Esteem Social selection has big implications for mental disorders. When I began treating patients, many wanted help to make them less sensitive to what other people thought ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kurzban, Robert;

Evolution doesn't care how happy you are The argument that self-deception is to “protect the self” is something like the following.* Suppose human brains have systems designed to avoid pain ...

epub |eng | | Author:Robert Kurzban

Evolution doesn't care how happy you are The argument that self-deception is to “protect the self” is something like the following.* Suppose human brains have systems designed to avoid pain ...

epub |eng | | Author:Marek Kohn

The search for objective evidence about the possible effects of languages upon thought leads to the question of subjective experience. What does it feel like to be bilingual? CHAPTER SEVEN ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-29 | Author:David M Buss [Buss, David M]

Costs were measured on a 7-point scale by independent raters. Figure 9.2 Distribution of Charity Offers in Public and Anonymous Groups as a Function of the Perceived Cost of the ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kenneth L Davis & Jaak Panksepp [Davis, Kenneth L & Panksepp, Jaak]

A FOUNDATIONAL ISSUE: THE LEXICAL HYPOTHESIS The lexical hypothesis embraces a faith that the spoken language encompassed a profound wisdom: the ability to describe and communicate all human interpersonal behavior ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-05 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

Cryptocercus are large for cockroaches. They survive not by sprinting away from enemies in the expected cockroach-in-the-kitchen manner, but passively, relying on the protection of their heavy chitinous armor. They ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Randolph M. Nesse

Social Anxiety and Self-Esteem Social selection has big implications for mental disorders. When I began treating patients, many wanted help to make them less sensitive to what other people thought ...

epub |eng | | Author:Deckers, Lambert

Chapter 8 Psychological Needs and Motives By annihilating desires you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. Claude Adrien ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

When the suppliant kneels and holds up his hands with the palms joined, he represents a captive who proves the completeness of his submission by offering up his hands to ...