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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Pinker Steven
mobi |eng | 2008-06-04 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

A realist interpretation of conceptual metaphor casts a different light on the application of metaphor and framing to politics. True to his cognitive theory, Lakoff states that “frames trump facts” ...
( Category: Linguistics November 14,2014 )
Future Babble by Dan Gardner
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Dan Gardner [Gardner, Dan]

THE CONFIDENCE GAME In much the same way, a strong, enthusiastic, confident speaking style has a power that transcends mere rationality—a power the psychologist Stephen Ceci demonstrated in an ingenious ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 11,2014 )
I Don't Know by Leah Hager Cohen
epub |eng | 2013-08-10 | Author:Leah Hager Cohen [Cohen, Leah Hager]

I want black children to have the opportunity to have teachers who understand their culture, their intellectual legacy, their communities, the best ways to teach them, the best ways to ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions November 7,2014 )
Bounce by Matthew Syed
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-06 | Author:Matthew Syed

The Placebo Effect in Sports In 1952 Norman Vincent Peale, a Protestant preacher, wrote what was to become arguably the single most important work of popular psychology of the twentieth ...
( Category: Popular Culture November 7,2014 )
Succeeding When You're Supposed to Fail by Rom Brafman
epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:Rom Brafman [Brafman, Rom]

ORIENTATION 5 Temperament and Success No one expected much of the University of Georgia women’s softball team when it kicked off its 2009 season. The Lady Bulldogs were especially young—all ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions November 7,2014 )
Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

CHAPTER ELEVEN Michelangelo Had an Agent 1 In 1991, college student Linus Torvalds was participating in an online e-mail group, and he posted some related queries. A few months later, ...
( Category: Sports November 7,2014 )
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Mlodinow Leonard
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Mlodinow, Leonard [Mlodinow, Leonard]

AT A QUARTER to eight on the evening of September 26, 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy strode into the studio of the CBS affiliate WBBM in downtown Chicago.26 ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions November 7,2014 )
The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dan Ariely

Consider the story of Andrew Potok, a blind writer who lives in Vermont. Potok was a gifted painter who gradually began losing his sight to an inherited eye disease, retinitis ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics November 7,2014 )
High Price by Carl Hart
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Carl Hart

Getting ready to go out and party in England while in the air force. In 1986, in the United States there were isolated protests against Reagan—and in the United Kingdom, ...
( Category: Social Scientists & Psychologists November 6,2014 )
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty by Dan Ariely
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Dan Ariely

I KNEW IT ALL ALONG I give a considerable number of lectures about my research to different groups, from academics to industry types. When I started giving talks, I would ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions October 30,2014 )
I Hate You—Don't Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Jerold J. Kreisman

Contending with Borderline Rage After a while, for someone close to a borderline, unpredictable behaviors may become commonplace and therefore “predictably unpredictable.” One of the most common, the angry outburst, ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions October 13,2014 )
Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge by Barash David P. & Lipton Judith Eve
epub |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Barash, David P. & Lipton, Judith Eve [Barash, David P.]

Thus far in this chapter, we have tried to make the case that a solid line—based on the Three Rs—runs through revenge to feuding, through the personal to the social, ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions October 9,2014 )
Pinker, Steven
mobi | | | Author:The Better Angels of Our Nature

( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions September 29,2014 )
Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Douglas Stone

4. CHANGE YOUR VANTAGE POINT Anything that helps you see a dark situation from a different point of view is beneficial. Here are a few ways to step outside your ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving September 16,2014 )
Commit to Win by Heidi Reeder PhD
epub |eng | 2014-05-15 | Author:Heidi Reeder PhD [Reeder, Heidi PhD]

Moving Forward Troubles play a powerful role in your level of satisfaction and commitment, and as it turns out, you need quite a few treasures to make up for the ...
( Category: Applied Psychology September 15,2014 )

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