Psychology
mobi |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

Chapter 7. Altruism “The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.” With that chilling dictum the third-century theologian Tertullian confessed the fundamental flaw of human altruism, an intimation ...
( Category: Psychology December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-01 | Author:Michael Merzenich [Merzenich, Michael]

For further explanations and extensive references and citations related to the information in this chapter, please visit www.soft-wired.com/ref/ch20 21 WHEN YOUR BRAIN CHANGES, YOU CHANGE Older Should Be Wiser, Better, ...
( Category: Behavioral Sciences December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Unknown

Tracy, J. L., Shaver, P. R., Albino, A. W., & Cooper, M. L. (2003). Attachment styles and adolescent sexuality. In P. Florsheim (Ed.), Adolescent romance and sexual behavior: Theory, research, ...
( Category: Specific Groups December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller

PART THREE Conclusion and Afterword CONCLUSION: EXAMPLES AND GENERAL LESSONS New Story in America and Its Consequences We began this book in one place, but are now ending it in ...
( Category: Psychology December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Sharat Sharan & John Carucci

Support staff Make sure that your support staff has a clear understanding of both the overall webinar topic and their specific tasks. Whether it’s making sure that the connection stays ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-12-14 | Author:Gregory R. Maio & Geoff Haddock

KEY POINTS • Attitudes are often influenced by variables that we would regard as being irrational. • Variables that shape attitudes can seem more or less relevant to the attitude, ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir [Mullainathan, Sendhil]

For tasks where we are far to the left of the peak, more attention is good. For other tasks—free-throw shooting, if you’re a pro—we can find ourselves on the other ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jake Halpern [Halpern, Jake]

One spring evening Dean Johnson invited me to his house for dinner and to watch the videotape of The Vicki Lawrence Show that had first brought him to L.A. The ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-02-16 | Author:Philip Johnson-Laird

means that he's here (and, as you know, my name is Phil). A second effect of modulation is to add information to models. It may introduce various relations between the ...
( Category: Psychology December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2016-02-09 | Author:Matt Tenney & Tim Gard

The Brain Is a Habitual Machine The brain is a very malleable machine (remember neuroplasticity), but it tends toward what is habitual. This can become a sort of vicious cycle. ...
( Category: Personal Finance December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Bruce Peltier

Several of these ideas eventually led to what business people have come to refer to as out-of-the-box thinking. Hypnosis without (Obvious) Trance A view of hypnosis limited to trance is ...
( Category: Psychology December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-27 | Author:B.F. Skinner [Skinner, B.F.]

The struggle for freedom and dignity has been formulated as a defense of autonomous man rather than as a revision of the contingencies of reinforcement under which people live. A ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar December 2,2017 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-04-27 | Author:William Horton [Horton, William]

TIP: If a salesperson makes one attempt at a sale, and then gives up when the sale doesn’t go through, that salesperson will starve! One attempt…two attempts…even three attempts don’t ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-11 | Author:Bob M. Fennis & Wolfgang Stroebe

Assessing the intensity of processing Petty, Cacioppo and their colleagues developed two strategies to evaluate the extent to which recipients of a message engage in message processing (Greenwald, 1968; Petty, ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-10-29 | Author:Alex Pentland

7 SENSIBLE SOCIETIES The next care to be taken, in respect of the Senses, is a supplying of their infirmities with Instruments, and as it were, the adding of artificial ...
( Category: Skills December 2,2017 )