Behavioral Sciences
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:Nisbett, Richard [Nisbett, Richard]

Easterners are almost surely closer to the truth than Westerners in their belief that the world is a highly complicated place and Westerners are undoubtedly often far too simple-minded in ...
( Category: Cultural March 2,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2007-08-16 | Author:John R Hodges

Chapter 5 Testing Cognitive Function at the Bedside The general schema followed is that already outlined in Chapters 1 and 3. The first part of the examination should assess distributed ...
( Category: Neurology March 2,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2008-11-05 | Author:Foster, Jonathan K. [Foster, Jonathan K.]

Organization and errors in memory The palest ink is better than the best memory. Chinese proverb In the 1960s and 1970s, some studies were carried out on chess players to ...
( Category: Neurology February 26,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2005-03-23 | Author:Blackmore, Susan [Blackmore, Susan]

16. Cross-wiring of the human brain. Split-brain patient P. S. was shown a snow scene to the left and a chicken claw to the right. So the speaking left hemisphere ...
( Category: Neurology February 26,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Deary, Ian J. [Deary, Ian J.]

Reaction time People with higher intelligence test scores have, on average, shorter and less variable reaction times. Look at Figure 14, which shows a box that measures people’s reaction times. ...
( Category: Cognitive February 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Robert E. Bartholomew [Bartholomew, Robert E.]

Immediate community threats involve exaggerated feelings of danger within communities at-large, where members of the affected population are concerned over what is believed to be a personal threat. Episodes usually ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions February 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-23 | Author:G. A. Bradshaw

10 Speaking in Tongues As she approached his enclosure, her body stiffened and a cold sweat broke out. Massa would agitate and vocalize with his trunk swaying. It took every ...
( Category: Wildlife February 24,2016 )
epub, azw |eng | 2016-01-11 | Author:Eliezer Sternberg [Sternberg, Eliezer]

This seemed like a good time to end the interview, but still my mind was flooded with questions. Why does Brandon hear a voice in his head? Where does it ...
( Category: Neurology February 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:David Halpern [Halpern, David]

One concern was that e-cigs might pull in non-smokers, but, again, the numbers did not suggest this. There was a tiny fraction of non-smokers who had used e-cigs, but this ...
( Category: Behavioral Psychology February 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:William H. Calvin

RATIONAL argument alone often cannot overcome those who simply and passionately believe. Yet logic is often bent and distorted in the service of those belief systems; it can even override ...
( Category: Neurology February 16,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maria Konnikova [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: Cognitive February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Rhena Branch

Acquiring Alternative Activities Once you’ve dumped your DOC you’ll be left with time on your hands. Finding substitute behaviours to help you deal with stress and negative emotions is very ...
( Category: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy February 14,2016 )
epub |eng, eng | 2006-02-11 | Author:Charles Yang

As we look at how the different language types are distributed around the world, there is no hint of a significant interaction between language type and culture type. Japanese, Mongolian, ...
( Category: Child Psychology February 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-07 | Author:Kim Chamberlain

POETRY 7 Make up a limerick. A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of a stanza of five lines, where the first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other, ...
( Category: Puzzles February 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marke Ahonen

Chrysippus seems to suggest that such terms as “woman-madness” were in common use and not specific to Stoic philosophers with their notion of “general” madness. The Platonist Galen, who provides ...
( Category: Humanism February 5,2016 )