Psychology
epub |eng | 2014-01-29 | Author:David DeSteno

Get Out of My Way Most of us don’t usually stop to think about it, but the simple act of crossing the street necessitates some level of trust. Unless you’re ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub | | 1998-10-06 | Author:Dave Barry

But people like me can do only so much. We can take your money. After that, it's up to you. If you don't follow the diet and exercise program outlined ...
( Category: Essays February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:John McQuaid

CHAPTER 7 Quest for Fire At the start of the twenty-first century, a coterie of amateur horticulturalists around the world began an unusual competition. Toiling in backyards, trading seeds, and ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-19 | Author:Dan Ariely

FROM THIS EXPERIMENT, we saw that our capsule did have a placebo effect. But suppose we priced the Veladone differently. Suppose we discounted the price of a capsule of Veladone-Rx ...
( Category: Consumer Behavior February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-03 | Author:Martin Buber [Buber, Martin]

357. Walter Benjamin to Martin Buber « Berlin, February 23, 1927 » My esteemed Herr Buber, My stay in Moscow turned out to be somewhat longer than I supposed.219 When ...
( Category: Jewish February 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2002-09-18 | Author:Norman, Don [Norman, Don]

NARROW STRUCTURES A cookbook recipe is a good example of a narrow structure (figure 5.3). A narrow structure arises when there are only a small number of alternatives, perhaps one ...
( Category: Ergonomics February 13,2015 )
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:Dobelli, Rolf [Dobelli, Rolf]

( Category: Cognitive February 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-02-10 | Author:Susan Greenfield

now have a clear picture of how media violence increases aggression in short- and long-term contexts. Immediately after exposure to media violence, there is an increase in aggressive behavior tendencies ...
( Category: Psychology February 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shermer

PROVISIONAL MORAL PRINCIPLES FOR ANIMALS Let’s consider the Provisional Ten Moral Principles that I outlined at the end of chapter 4. The first two principles—the Golden Rule Principle and the ...
( Category: General February 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-27 | Author:Clara Claiborne Park [Park, Clara Claiborne]

. . . We read often that autistic children are deficient in imagination, in “pretend play.” “Current diagnostic schemes pay particular attention to the abnormal lack of imaginative activity.” “The ...
( Category: Special Needs February 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Outliers: The Story of Success [Success, Outliers: The Story of]

Part Two legacy CHAPTER SIX Harlan, Kentucky "DIE LIKE A MAN, LIKE YOUR BROTHER DID!" 1. In the southeastern corner of Kentucky, in the stretch of the Appalachian Mountains known ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions February 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:Stephen S. Hall [Hall, Stephen S.]

CHAPTER TEN PATIENCE Temptation, Delayed Gratification, and the Biology of Learning to Wait for Larger Rewards The ego isn’t an organ that might sit in a central place like Descartes’s ...
( Category: Neuropsychology February 8,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson [Grandin, Temple & Johnson, Catherine]

HANDLING FEAR AGGRESSION Not all dogs who bite are dominant. Shy biters bite people because they’re afraid, not because they are dominant. German shepherds who bite are usually shy biters. ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication February 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Frances E. Jensen

12 Mental Illness Weathering teenagers’ adolescence often means just riding out the rough seas with them until calmer waters are reached. But because adolescence is already a time of mood ...
( Category: Food Counters January 30,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Sloan Wilson

FIGURE 7.1 AYN RAND’S WORLDVIEW In short, Rand’s worldview adds a layer of unreality on top of the unreality of Homo economicus. Those who become believers acquire a kind of ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions January 29,2015 )