Behavioral Sciences
mobi |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Martin E. P. Seligman
In the largest study of the relationship between optimism and cardiovascular disease to date, 97,000 women, healthy at the outset of the study in 1994, were followed for eight years. ...
( Category:
Mental Health
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:William Davies
The science of deflation The ability of individuals to ‘strive’ and ‘grow’ came under a somewhat different scientific spotlight between 1957 and 1958, due to accidental and coincidental discoveries made ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Gary Klein [Klein, Gary]
______ * The totals come to more than 30 because some of the contrasting twins fit more than one of the four categories. CHAPTER ELEVEN Dumb by Design AS COMPUTERS ...
( Category:
Business Culture
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Joshua Wolf Shenk [Shenk, Joshua Wolf]
21 Varieties of Alphas and Betas The Hitchcock Paradox The necessary flexibility in power can manifest in a variety of ways. Consider the extreme situation where one partner seeks to ...
( Category:
Social Sciences
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-28 | Author:Jerome S. BRUNER
Note that each variant also imposes stress on the word that carries the burden of uncertainty-john, marry, and Elsie in the three variants. Fillmore, for his part, raises the question ...
( Category:
Philosophy
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-27 | Author:
Despite the widely accepted notion that motivation always increases closer to a goal, a closer look at extant theories of motivation, and especially on the standard expectancy-value theory of motivation, ...
( Category:
Psychology & Counseling
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-07-02 | Author:Dariusz Dolinski
TABLE 4.4 Percentage of persons complying with the experimenter’s request to devote 15 minutes of their time to answer questions about the local press in Dolinski, Nawrat and Rudak (2001) ...
( Category:
Psychology & Counseling
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Lynda Resnick & Francis Wilkinson
The source of FIJI’s artesian water. Remember the old Stewart Resnick mantra? “The management is good. I’ll let them run the business and it won’t take any time from me ...
( Category:
Marketing & Sales
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Dan Hill [Hill, Dan]
‘Magic’ versus the risk of message-itis An over-reliance on rational messaging won’t achieve persuasion The Stage 4 decision phase is the launching stage to action. That is to say, it’s ...
( Category:
Psychology
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Matthew B. Crawford
9 THE CULTURE OF PERFORMANCE In The Weariness of the Self, Alain Ehrenberg offers a cultural history of depression. He writes: Depression began its ascent when the disciplinary model for ...
( Category:
Psychology
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-29 | Author:Dan Hurley [Hurley, Dan]
Over the days and weeks that followed, my performance slowly but steadily improved at boot camp and Lumosity, on N-back and the lute. My Lumosity score quickly jumped into the ...
( Category:
Memory Improvement
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael S. Gazzaniga [Gazzaniga, Michael S.]
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:
Behavioral Sciences
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Thomas Gilovich & Lee Ross
Part 2 * * * WISDOM APPLIED 6 * * * The Happiest One in the Room On the evening of October 14, 1993, Mark Zupan and a group of ...
( Category:
Happiness
December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:David Eagleman [Eagleman, David]
As in the movie Back to the Future, humans time travel daily. Time travel is something the human brain does relentlessly. When faced with a decision, our brains simulate different ...
( Category:
Biological Sciences
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Jeff Brown & Mark Fenske [Brown, Jeff]
What Are Emotions, Anyway? We think Emotional Balance is one of the most misunderstood Winner’s Brain traits, perhaps because scientists and philosophers have debated for centuries, and are still debating, ...
( Category:
Psychology & Counseling
December 2,2017 )
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