Psychology
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Hawley, Katherine [Hawley, Katherine]

Chapter 6 Knowledge and expertise Honesty and good intentions are not enough: in trusting, we also seek competence. If I trust what you tell me about where to find a ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-30 | Author:Freeman, Daniel & Freeman, Jason [Freeman, Daniel]

Chapter 7 Panic disorder In 1837, just a few months after returning from his epic five-year voyage around the globe on the Beagle, the 28-year-old Charles Darwin began to experience ...
( Category: General January 6,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:Al Vernacchio

It is not uncommon for my students to talk to me about their sexual orientation, especially if they are feeling confused. A ninth-grade girl in ripped jeans and rock band ...
( Category: Health January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-16 | Author:Nichols, Shaun

5 Debunking Arguments The rise of experimental philosophy has been accompanied by a rise in debunking arguments.1 I have already discussed two debunking arguments (in sections 2.6 and 4.3.5). But ...
( Category: Free Will & Determinism January 5,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2009-08-19 | Author:Cialdini, Robert B. [Cialdini, Robert B.]

* * * Malfunctioning Copier Five minutes before the start of school on May 20, 1999, 15-year-old Thomas (“TJ”) Solomon opened fire on his classmates, shooting six of them before ...
( Category: General January 3,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-01 | Author:George Makari [Makari, George]

Figure 33. The execution of Louis XVI by guillotine, 1793. THE THERMIDORIAN REACTION ended the Terror and returned to power the stunned, moderate reformers such as those associated with Auteuil. ...
( Category: History January 3,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Sebastian Archer [Archer, Sebastian]

Chapter 10: One Trick to End Your Procrastination “You have a limited amount of willpower to use each day. That willpower is your rocket fuel. Use it wisely.” – Eben ...
( Category: Cognitive December 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-28 | Author:Fern Michaels [Michaels, Fern]

As was inevitable, morning came to Hong Kong as it always did. To everyone’s dismay, early on the atmosphere was gray with the effects of the heavy pollution that poisoned ...
( Category: Suspense December 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:E. James Lieberman & Gregory C. Richter

[Tuesday] February 26, 1924 Lieber Herr Doktor: I hope you’ve recovered on schedule and will again be participating. Given the current situation with my ability to speak and the resulting ...
( Category: History December 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Aggarwal, Neil K.

Depictions of Suicide Bombers in the Mental Health Scholarship THE TRIAL OF THE FIVE suspects charged with the 9/11 attacks—Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ali Abdul ...
( Category: Psychiatry December 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Sia Mohajer [Mohajer, Sia]

Survivorship Bias Scenario 1: Judy has been thinking of buying some mutual funds. She has met a local broker and is planning on purchasing a US-based mutual fund. The fund ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology December 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Lorenz, Konrad [Lorenz, Konrad]

10 RATS There is a type of social organization characterized by a form of aggression that we have not yet encountered: the collective aggression of one community against another. I ...
( Category: Pathologies December 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-25 | Author:ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ

ALL ABOUT YOU The combination of dogs’ attention to us and their sensory prowess is explosive. We have seen their detection of our health, our truthfulness, even our relation to ...
( Category: Dogs December 26,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-10-08 | Author:Robert Pogue Harrison [Harrison, Robert Pogue]

I have commented at length on the Gettysburg Address in my book The Dominion of the Dead and elsewhere, hence I will not reiterate here what I asserted in those ...
( Category: Social Philosophy December 25,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:A. C. Grayling

There is no reason to think that ‘situational homosexuality’ does not occur outside the intense environment of boarding school, given that almost all societies, even our much more integrated contemporary ...
( Category: Social Philosophy December 25,2015 )