Behavioral Sciences
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Marzluff, John & Angell, Tony [Marzluff, John]

Ravens use sticks and branches to taunt a great-horned owl. When two corvid species resort to using weapons against each other, the results are less predictable. Noted ornithologist Russell Balda ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Christine Carter, Ph.D. [Carter, Christine, Ph.D.]

Turkle ends her book with a call to be more deliberate in our technology use. Technology can foster true connection, of course—Skype and Google Hangouts have been a real breakthrough ...
( Category: Happiness July 9,2018 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:V. S. Ramachandran [Ramachandran, V. S.]

RECALL THE SIMPLE bouba-kiki experiment. Could it hold the key to understanding how the first words evolved among a band of ancestral hominins in the African savanna between one and ...
( Category: Evolution July 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dani Ben-Zvi & Katie Makar

These examples imply that without interruption students’ understanding of statistics as a variable was minimal or nonexistent. 21.5.4 Mathematically Strong Students Experienced Special Kinds of Struggles in Learning Statistics One ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching July 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-04 | Author:Thomas W. Malone [Malone, Thomas W.]

It’s clear from the diagram that the global proposals (top row) included many different combinations of national and regional proposals (middle rows), which in turn included many different combinations of ...
( Category: Skills July 7,2018 )
epub | | 2013-02-18 | Author:Emily Bazelon [Bazelon, Emily]

Flannery finished high school by taking night classes at a community college, glad to go for days without seeing anyone she knew from high school. She spoke up, though, when ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling July 7,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:Boyes Ph.D, Alice

Thinking Shifts to Become More Relaxed About Feedback The experiments in this section will help you understand your thinking processes around feedback and move your thoughts in a more balanced ...
( Category: Behavioral Sciences July 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-27 | Author:Steffen Saifer

There are, of course, many other types of deceptive statements. The ability to parse these fallacies depends on the ability to recognize them. With teacher-guided practice, even very young learners ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching July 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-02-03 | Author:Greg Smith [Smith, Greg]

Around 7:30 on the morning of September 11, 1989, three big American sedans with stolen license plates cruised softly through the awakening streets of Staten Island. This was the one ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-15 | Author:Deborah Rudacille [Rudacille, Deborah]

As this list illustrates, if gender-variant people agree about anything these days, it is about their right to express their identitities and to label themselves (or not label themselves) in ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-28 | Author:Konnikova, Maria

CHAPTER 5 THE TALE The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world—because statistically, we are unlikely to ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling June 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:Wharton, James [Wharton, James]

To learn more, I’ve come to the London offices of the Albert Kennedy Trust on Old Street to talk with youth worker Nathan East. AKT, as it’s more commonly known, ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 28,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-23 | Author:Oatley, Keith

Figure 20. In a study by Felix Warneken and Michael Tomasello, a two-year-old opens a cupboard for a person whom the child sees as wanting to put some books in ...
( Category: Mental Health June 23,2018 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Alicia M. Walker

Chapter 4 A Gift You Give Yourself, But Nothing Comes for Free Considering the time, expense, energy, and risk required to participate in an outside partnership concurrent to a primary ...
( Category: Women's Studies June 23,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-03-19 | Author:Anthony T. DeBenedet

Charlie Chaplin once said, “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.” Like Brenda, most of the playfully intelligent people I have spoken ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 18,2018 )