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The Little Book of Stupidity: How We Lie to Ourselves and Don't Believe Others by Sia Mohajer
epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Sia Mohajer [Mohajer, Sia]

Survivorship Bias Scenario 1: Judy has been thinking of buying some mutual funds. She has met a local broker and is planning on purchasing a US-based mutual fund. The fund ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology December 27,2015 )
On Aggression by Lorenz Konrad
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Lorenz, Konrad [Lorenz, Konrad]

10 RATS There is a type of social organization characterized by a form of aggression that we have not yet encountered: the collective aggression of one community against another. I ...
( Category: Pathologies December 26,2015 )
INSIDE OF A DOG by ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ
epub |eng | 2009-12-25 | Author:ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ

ALL ABOUT YOU The combination of dogs’ attention to us and their sensory prowess is explosive. We have seen their detection of our health, our truthfulness, even our relation to ...
( Category: Dogs December 26,2015 )
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Carol Tavris

Chapter 6 Love's Assassin: Self-justification in Marriage Love ... is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. —novelist Iris Murdoch WHEN WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS got married ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions December 25,2015 )
Why We Love by Helen Fisher
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Helen Fisher

7 Lost Love: Rejection, Despair, and Rage Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are ...
( Category: Emotions December 18,2015 )
Irrationality by Lisa Bortolotti
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lisa Bortolotti [Bortolotti, Lisa]

Those agents who experience less pleasure in anticipation and consummation, and fail to successfully represent experiences as pleasant (e.g., people with schizophrenia who have flattened emotions or experience pleasant emotions ...
( Category: Humanism December 14,2015 )
What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought by Keith E. Stanovich
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-02 | Author:Keith E. Stanovich [Stanovich, Keith E.]

T W E L V E How Many Ways Can Thinking Go Wrong? A Taxonomy of Irrational Thinking Tendencies and Their Relation to Intelligence Behavioral economics extends the paternalistically protected ...
( Category: Cognitive December 13,2015 )
At Her Feet by Rebekah Weatherspoon
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Rebekah Weatherspoon [Weatherspoon, Rebekah]

Chapter Eight I wake up confused. Pilar’s not in bed with me. I hear her in her bathroom, puking her guts out. I jump out of bed and run to ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 12,2015 )
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-12-09 | Author:Christopher Ryan

Without access to the skeletal data on body-size dimorphism we have today, Darwin speculated that early humans may have lived in a harem-based system. But we now know that if ...
( Category: General December 10,2015 )
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-08-15 | Author:James Surowiecki

III One reason coordination on the highway is so difficult is the diversity of the drivers. As we’ve seen, diversity is essential to much good decision making. But diversity can ...
( Category: General December 9,2015 )
Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Christensen Clayton & Johnson Curtis W. & Horn Michael B
mobi |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:Christensen, Clayton & Johnson, Curtis W. & Horn, Michael B. [Christensen, Clayton]

24. Picciano and Seaman, pp. 11, 16, and 17. 25. See Virtual ChemLab, http://chemlab.byu.edu/Tour.php (accessed on October 22, 2006). Sam Dillon, “No Test Tubes? Debate on Virtual Science Classes,” New ...
( Category: Administration November 29,2015 )
The Secret History of Kindness by Melissa Holbrook Pierson
epub |eng | 2015-11-22 | Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson

* * * * In the zoo, we draw a frame around existence. In that way, it becomes ours, and diminished to possessible size. The animal’s sole value is reduced ...
( Category: Behaviorism November 23,2015 )
Understanding the Borderline Mother by Lawson Christine Ann
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lawson, Christine Ann [Lawson, Christine Ann]

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Make-Believe Mothers 2. The Darkness Within 3. The Waif Mother 4. The Hermit Mother 5. The ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 16,2015 )
Infinite Awareness by Marjorie Hines Woollacott
epub |eng | 2012-11-11 | Author:Marjorie Hines Woollacott

In my reading of the peer-reviewed articles by Stevenson and others in this area,[3] I have been favorably impressed by the care these researchers take to explore all the available ...
( Category: Behavioral Sciences November 12,2015 )
The Woman Who Can't Forget by Jill Price
epub |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Jill Price

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: Cognitive Psychology November 12,2015 )

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