Behavioral Sciences
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Hosanagar, Kartik [Hosanagar, Kartik]

Part Three TAMING THE CODE 7. In Algorithms We Trust Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. J. K. Rowling, ...
( Category: Consumer Behavior June 20,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-06-17 | Author:Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann

KEY TAKEAWAYS Avoid succumbing to the gambler’s fallacy or the base rate fallacy. Anecdotal evidence and correlations you see in data are good hypothesis generators, but correlation does not imply ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving June 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-14 | Author:Matthew Ratcliffe

6.2 Ways of Believing A pervasive alteration in what is anticipated from other people and from the world in general also affects the form of belief, the way in which ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:Annaka Harris

Christof Koch is one neuroscientist who is willing to consider the panpsychic interpretation, telling an interviewer: If you take a more conceptual approach to consciousness, the evidence suggests there are ...
( Category: Meditation June 10,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-03-17 | Author:Fee, Christopher R. [Fee, Christopher R.]

Heroic Journeys and Quests At the center of most hero myths is the quest. Through the quest adventure, the hero proves his worth and “makes a name” for himself. The ...
( Category: Medieval June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Gabor Maté, MD [Mate, Gabor]

The same dynamics come into play with eating disorders. How, we might ask, could an activity essential for survival become so distorted, undermining a person’s health sometimes to the point ...
( Category: Social Security June 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Jo-Ellan Dimitrius

Use of Titles The way a person uses titles can reveal his geographic background, life experience, and upbringing. For example, most lawyers refer to the “ladies and gentlemen of the ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations May 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 1989-04-21 | Author:Wilson, James Q [Wilson, James Q]

unique in this regard. Russell Weigley, in his history of the army, recounts many examples of reorganization as the size and mission of the army altered.^ But at a deeper ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration May 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-14 | Author:David Lewis-Williams [Lewis-Williams, David]

43 North American rock art images depicting shamanistic experience: A Flight; the figure wears a quail topknot; B and C Winged flight; D Underwater; a salamander swimming around a saltwater ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 28,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-04-16 | Author:Lewis-Williams, David [Lewis-Williams, David]

42 The killing of a bighorn sheep was associated with rain-making. When a shaman killed a sheep, he was, in effect, killing himself. In this list, Whitley gathers together the ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 27,2019 )
epub, pdf, azw3, mobi |eng | 1987-05-07 | Author:Robert Graysmith [Graysmith, Robert]

that would frustrate the best of experts. It went something like this: First he set his typewriter to all caps. Then he made a book of typewriter paper and carbon, ...
( Category: Serial Killers May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-26 | Author:Moore, Leonard

Use Guilt, Play the Victim For people who are driven by emotion, manipulating feelings of guilt and playing the victim are two great ways to manipulate people. These ways have ...
( Category: Neurology May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael S. Gazzaniga

MORE FUNDING, MORE RESEARCH, MORE KNOWLEDGE Meanwhile, many visiting researchers were making a mess of the scientific literature on split-brain patients.7 The researchers seemed not to understand how cross-cueing tricks, ...
( Category: Neurology May 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-09 | Author:Lisa Cron

Notice how Jennie has focused in on potential external events geared to stoke the inner struggle she wants Ruby to go through? Her goal now is to find the main ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Rob Walker;

Like Bogost, I visit my local Walmart more often than I’d like to, and there’s generally nothing fun about it. Picking up the few items I need in the store’s ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 20,2019 )