Behavioral Sciences
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:David Mcraney [Mcraney, David]

Think of a cup completely filled with water. You try to add one drop to this cup, and one drop spills out. You try to pour a cup of water ...
( Category: Humor October 8,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Dean A. Haycock

Chapter Seven Missing Fear and Empathy THE HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL in Bergen, Norway covers a lot of land. The trees lining the streets of Bergen can’t hide its buildings, which ...
( Category: Psychology October 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Bloom [Bloom, Paul]

DISPLAYS AND FITNESS Here are some reasons one might value a painting: 1. It could be attractive in a low-level way; the patterns might please the eye. 2. It could ...
( Category: Mental Health October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Christopher Chabris [Chabris, Christopher]

Causes and Symptoms Unlike the parade of unusual patients appearing on television dramas like Grey’s Anatomy and House, or coming to Dr. Keating’s St. Louis diagnostic clinic, the vast majority ...
( Category: Creativity October 7,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:James Patterson;Hal Friedman

Chapter 39 A WEEK LATER, the football team is called together to meet a new coach. I’m not really sure what happened, whether it was school politics or not. The ...
( Category: Mental Health October 7,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-10-02 | Author:Martin E. P. Seligman [Seligman, Martin E. P.]

Work-Life Survey Please read all three paragraphs below. Indicate how much you are like A, B, or C. Ms. A works primarily to earn enough money to support her life ...
( Category: Happiness October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Lynne Segal [Segal, Lynne]

Who’s a pervert?: queer theory and gender sabotage When Susan Sontag wrote her ‘Notes on “Camp” ’ in 1964, she saw ‘Camp’ sensibility as preserving a determined but detached, ironic, ...
( Category: Women's Studies October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 1991-10-06 | Author:Thomas Gilovich

7 The Imagined Agreement of Others Exaggerated Impressions of Social Support My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in strength and success, the moment a second mind has adopted it. Novalis ...
( Category: Philosophy October 6,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Must I too creep to the hollow …?” ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood, Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red ...
( Category: Mental Health October 6,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Jill Price [Price, Jill]

Wake up and hang out and relax. At 9 a.m. watch WWOR Noon News (from NJ) and at 9:17 a.m. Pacific Time it was announced that there was a bombing ...
( Category: Psychology October 6,2017 )
epub | | 2010-04-28 | Author:Personal Best (Torquere) [M-M] [[M-M], Personal Best (Torquere)]

Jessy hummed, hands sliding along his back. "That doesn't mean I'm not going to ride your ass again on Monday. Or that you can have chocolate." "You said I could ...
( Category: Music October 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-03 | Author:Michael Shermer

42 Quantum Quackery A surprise-hit film has renewed interest in applying quantum mechanics to consciousness, spirituality, and human potential In spring 2004, I appeared on KATU-TV’s AM Northwest in Portland, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy October 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Douglas T. Kenrick

The Evolved Computer Inside Your Head Imagine you are on the subway with a man sitting across from you. You may not notice whether he is wearing a plaid jacket, ...
( Category: Psychology October 3,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Dan Gardner

THE CONFIDENCE GAME In much the same way, a strong, enthusiastic, confident speaking style has a power that transcends mere rationality—a power the psychologist Stephen Ceci demonstrated in an ingenious ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Penney Peirce [Peirce, Penney]

I am here and ready for now’s word. Your Threshold of Sensitivity When your body has an important message for you, it tries to get your attention, usually by getting ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality October 2,2017 )