Science & Math
mobi | | | Author:Unknown

Back - New Search lateral inhibition n. Suppression by a neuron of the response of a neighbouring neuron at the same level in a sensory system, such as the suppression ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-12-08 | Author:Steven Pinker

PEOPLE DO MORE for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback, ranging from leaving a tip in a ...
( Category: Behavioral Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Steven Pinker

Before turning to the bigger picture of the appreciation of children in the West, I must spend a few words on a more jaundiced view of the historical fate of ...
( Category: Violence in Society March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Daniel Coyle

*2 At Meadowmount Music School I met a dozen kids who, when I asked them how they came to play, were vague, saying things like “I just always liked the ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Maria Konnikova

Distancing Through Actual Distance And what if, like Watson, you simply can’t fathom doing something that would enable you to think of something else, even if you have all of ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Daniel Goleman

IN THE MENTAL GYM Think of attention as a mental muscle that we can strengthen by a workout. Memorization works that muscle, as does concentration. The mental analog of lifting ...
( Category: Cognitive March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-12 | Author:Daniel J. Siegel

ENCODING WITHOUT AWARENESS If you had been a volunteer in one of the classic studies of divided attention, it would have gone something like this: The researcher gives you a ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Williams, Prof Mark & Dr Danny Penman [Williams, Prof Mark]

easily we get sucked into their drama. Sounds and Thoughts Meditation3 Settling with breath and body Find a sitting position, in Find a sitting position, in which the spine can ...
( Category: Science & Math March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1971-01-02 | Author:R. Laing

The child was not at all precocious in his intellectual development. At the age of one and a half he could say only a few comprehensible words; he could also ...
( Category: Existentialism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Simon Baron-Cohen

Genes for Aggression Some scientists have focused their search for empathy genes on those that affect the neurotransmitter serotonin. Too much serotonin in the synapse has been linked to aggression. ...
( Category: Forensic Psychology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:James Robert Smith

Chapter Twenty-Four This time, Ron did not have to wait in silence and frustration outside the gates of Holcomb’s compound. As he and Mary arrived, the gates were opening to ...
( Category: Adventure March 25,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-06-26 | Author:Layard, Richard [Layard, Richard]

Work Another key element of most people’s well-being is work. Indeed, we saw in chapter 5 that unemployment is one of the worst things that can happen to anyone. In ...
( Category: Sociology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Nathan, Debbie [Nathan, Debbie]

Flora had her happy ending, exactly when she wanted it. Now she could do the book—and not just a potboiler, but a work of moral and literary heft. Writing about ...
( Category: Dissociative Disorders March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |fr | 2010-01-14 | Author:Gary Greenberg

CHAPTER 11 DIAGNOSING FOR DOLLARS Sometime during my first session with a new patient, usually toward the end, the touchiest subject in therapy comes up. Which is not what you ...
( Category: Medicine March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-09-01 | Author:Daniel Goleman

THE LOW ROAD TO COMPASSION Such empathy, Jaak Panksepp argues, has its roots in the low-road neural system for maternal nurturance, one we share with a wide range of other ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations March 25,2014 )