Behavioral Sciences
epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Ian Ayres [Ayres, Ian]

CHOOSE MY GOAL I’m rooting for Andy Mayer. But because he doesn’t have a firm maintenance plan, I predict that by the time this book is published he will, like ...
( Category: Consumer Behavior November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-24 | Author:John C. Norcross [Norcross, John C.]

CHECK YOURSELF: COUNTERING Answer the following questions about your behavior in the past week using a 5-point scale: 1 = Never, 2 = Seldom, 3 = Occasionally, 4 = Often, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Shermer

Happiness is a subjective state of well-being that depends on relative frames of reference, grounded in an evolved psychology that finds meaning in the simple social pleasures and purposes of ...
( Category: Theory November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Paul Dolan [Dolan, Paul]

Let others decide Another more radical option is sometimes to let people you trust actually make decisions for you. Allow your desires, projections, and beliefs to be reflected in their ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 7,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas M. Sterner [Sterner, Thomas M.]

All the patience you will ever need is already within you. My mother, who passed on from cancer a number of years ago, once expressed to me an observation she ...
( Category: Educational Psychology November 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Mlodinow, Leonard [Mlodinow, Leonard]

AT A QUARTER to eight on the evening of September 26, 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy strode into the studio of the CBS affiliate WBBM in downtown Chicago.26 ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions November 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Linden, David J. [Linden, David J.]

What does this vole research tell us about our own behavior? Human sexual and social behavior shares some similarities with that of rodents, but has some important differences as well. ...
( Category: Biology November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dan Ariely

Consider the story of Andrew Potok, a blind writer who lives in Vermont. Potok was a gifted painter who gradually began losing his sight to an inherited eye disease, retinitis ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:DiSalvo, David [DiSalvo, David]

The Sway of Metaphor Whether in person or on screen, one of the strongest influences on our thinking is woven into the verbiage all of us use in discussions big ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Antonio Damasio [Damasio, Antonio]

Figure 8.3 : The brain-stem nuclei involved in generating the core self. As shown in Figure 4.1, several brain-stem nuclei work together to ensure homeostasis. But the homeostasis-related nuclei project ...
( Category: Neurology November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Graziano, Michael S. A. [Graziano, Michael S. A.]

11 Consciousness as Integrated Information In the previous chapter I discussed one of the most common theoretical approaches to consciousness—the social construction of consciousness. A second common theoretical approach is ...
( Category: Psychiatry November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Bateson, Mary C. [Bateson, Mary C.]

Turning into a Toad I GREW UP LEARNING NATURAL HISTORY from my father, paddling in summer through the swamp in New Hampshire or wandering the California woods, absorbing his steady ...
( Category: General November 6,2014 )
epub |deu | | Author:E.T.A. Hoffmann [Hoffmann, E.T.A.]

Was sich mit den neuen Spielsachen im Walde zutrug Tages darauf fingen die Kinder es wieder da an, wo sie es abends vorher gelassen hatten: das heißt, sie holten die ...
( Category: European November 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Walter Moers [Moers, Walter]

A lively tune struck up and one of the smaller curtains – the one embroidered with musical notes – slowly rose to reveal an orchestra behind it – or, at ...
( Category: Epic November 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-17 | Author:R. Laing

The child was not at all precocious in his intellectual development. At the age of one and a half he could say only a few comprehensible words; he could also ...
( Category: Behaviorism October 29,2014 )