Cognitive Psychology
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Stefan van Der Stigchel

We usually know exactly where important objects are located after each eye movement. We update the visual representations of an object after each movement so that a fork, for example, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology July 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-23 | Author:David McRaney

10. Pluralistic Ignorance THE MISCONCEPTION: Many of your private beliefs are in disagreement with what most people think. THE TRUTH: On certain issues, the majority of the people believe that ...
( Category: Satire July 14,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kurzban, Robert;

Evolution doesn't care how happy you are The argument that self-deception is to “protect the self” is something like the following.* Suppose human brains have systems designed to avoid pain ...
( Category: Evolutionary Psychology June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Lisa Zunshine [Zunshine, Lisa]

FIGURE 2. Clarissa dying. Reproduced courtesy of McMaster University Library. (a) Mind-Games in Clarissa Clarissa is a story of two brilliant young people, Clarissa Harlowe and Robert Lovelace, fatally misreading ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory June 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-08 | Author:Hilde Østby & Ylva Østby [Østby, Hilde & Østby, Ylva]

— 6 — THE ELEPHANT’S GRAVEYARD Or: The art of forgetting I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 21,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-22 | Author:Peter Freeth [Freeth, Peter]

I had a meeting with my boss and he decided that I’ll be presenting to the board How about these two: I’m afraid of what will happen if I stand ...
( Category: Training June 20,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-06-17 | Author:Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann

KEY TAKEAWAYS Avoid succumbing to the gambler’s fallacy or the base rate fallacy. Anecdotal evidence and correlations you see in data are good hypothesis generators, but correlation does not imply ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving June 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-14 | Author:Matthew Ratcliffe

6.2 Ways of Believing A pervasive alteration in what is anticipated from other people and from the world in general also affects the form of belief, the way in which ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:Annaka Harris

Christof Koch is one neuroscientist who is willing to consider the panpsychic interpretation, telling an interviewer: If you take a more conceptual approach to consciousness, the evidence suggests there are ...
( Category: Meditation June 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-14 | Author:David Lewis-Williams [Lewis-Williams, David]

43 North American rock art images depicting shamanistic experience: A Flight; the figure wears a quail topknot; B and C Winged flight; D Underwater; a salamander swimming around a saltwater ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 28,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-04-16 | Author:Lewis-Williams, David [Lewis-Williams, David]

42 The killing of a bighorn sheep was associated with rain-making. When a shaman killed a sheep, he was, in effect, killing himself. In this list, Whitley gathers together the ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael S. Gazzaniga

MORE FUNDING, MORE RESEARCH, MORE KNOWLEDGE Meanwhile, many visiting researchers were making a mess of the scientific literature on split-brain patients.7 The researchers seemed not to understand how cross-cueing tricks, ...
( Category: Neurology May 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-09 | Author:Lisa Cron

Notice how Jennie has focused in on potential external events geared to stoke the inner struggle she wants Ruby to go through? Her goal now is to find the main ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-07 | Author:Rob Walker;

Like Bogost, I visit my local Walmart more often than I’d like to, and there’s generally nothing fun about it. Picking up the few items I need in the store’s ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology May 20,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Kurzban

Evolution doesn't care how happy you are The argument that self-deception is to “protect the self” is something like the following.* Suppose human brains have systems designed to avoid pain ...
( Category: Evolutionary Psychology May 19,2019 )