Behavioral Sciences
mobi |eng | 2013-01-11 | Author:Halpern, Diane F. & Riggio, Heidi R. [Halpern, Diane F.]

Extra Feature How to Make Reasoned Judgments About Controversial Research Read the original research, if possible. Identify the conclusions – What do the authors want you to believe and do? ...
( Category: Workbooks September 29,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Walter Mischel

PROTECTING SELF-REGARD: SELF-ENHANCEMENT The psychological immune system finds ways for us to avoid hating ourselves for bad outcomes and credit ourselves for the good ones. It lets us attribute the ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology September 28,2014 )
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:Simon Baron-Cohen

Genes for Aggression Some scientists have focused their search for empathy genes on those that affect the neurotransmitter serotonin. Too much serotonin in the synapse has been linked to aggression. ...
( Category: Forensic Psychology September 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:James, Aaron [James, Aaron]

PSYCHOPATHS AND MORAL BLINDNESS In our proposal, the asshole is blameworthy because of a failure of seeing. But here one might object that the bare fact of having certain mistaken ...
( Category: Social Philosophy September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Benedict Carey [Carey, Benedict]

Take that, Archimedes! That’s a stroke of mad kid-genius you won’t see in any study or textbook, nor in early discussions of the puzzle, going back more than a hundred ...
( Category: Study Skills September 15,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Doyle, Terry & Zakrajsek, Todd [Doyle, Terry]

Figure 5.3 Proximity example. XOXOXO XOXOXO XOXOXO XOXOXO As an example, suppose you are having a party and Joe walks in the door. Then, about 20 min later Sarah walks ...
( Category: Educational Psychology September 10,2014 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:Ian Leslie [Leslie, Ian]

* This may help to explain why pupils who have thrived in schools that provide a hot-housing, activity-packed environment sometimes find it hard to progress after leaving. The KIPP schools, ...
( Category: Applied Psychology August 30,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-27 | Author:John Donne

Madness his sorrow, gout his cramps, may he Make, by but thinking who hath made him such ; And may he feel no touch Of conscience, but of fame, and ...
( Category: European August 30,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-02 | Author:Herbert, Frank [Herbert, Frank]

“O my Dark Rosaleen! Do not sigh, do not weep! The priests are on the ocean green, They march along the deep.” He broke off and cast a probing stare ...
( Category: Genetic Engineering August 28,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Richard Lynn [Lynn, Richard]

Page 184 the District of Columbia fund free abortions for poor women on welfare, but others have to pay appreciable sums, and in the remainder of the states everyone has ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology August 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-13 | Author:Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle, Thomas]

CHAPTER VII. THE EVERLASTING NO. Under the strange nebulous envelopment, wherein our Professor has now shrouded himself, no doubt but his spiritual nature is nevertheless progressive, and growing: for how ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 27,2014 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-09-01 | Author:Sigmund Freud

(3) I have adopted the term ‘omnipotence of thoughts’ from a highly intelligent man who suffered from obsessional ideas and who, after having been set right by psycho-analytical treatment, was ...
( Category: Ethnopsychology August 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Cain, Susan [Cain, Susan]

But what exactly is the mechanism by which buzz clouds good judgment? How did Janice Dorn’s client, Alan, dismiss the danger signs screaming that he might lose 70 percent of ...
( Category: Behavioral Psychology August 20,2014 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Power & Dalgleish

7. SADNESS Table 7.1 Pairings of sadness with other basic emotions together with some typical examples Example SADNESS–DISGUST SADNESS–ANGER SADNESS–ANXIETY SADNESS–HAPPINESS He left me because I am such an awful ...
( Category: Cognitive August 18,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Julian Jaynes

Technically, the first thing to note is the change in the frequency with which the preconscious hypostases are used. Such data can be compiled easily from concordances of the Iliad ...
( Category: Humanism August 1,2014 )