Behavioral Sciences
mobi |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:James Wallman
10 Facebook Changed How We Keep Up with the Joneses The last decades of the nineteenth century were a boom time in America. Trade and industrialization produced huge wealth for ...
( Category:
Anthropology
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-09 | Author:B.F. Skinner [Skinner, B.F.]
20 FRAZIER led us in the direction of the personal rooms, and I hoped that we might be going to his own quarters, which I was curious to see. But ...
( Category:
Science Fiction
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-05 | Author:Timothy D. WILSON
Sometimes, though, the conscious system gets it wrong. One way this can happen is that people fail to notice that a feeling has changed until their attention is drawn to ...
( Category:
Psychology & Counseling
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-04-23 | Author:Roy F. Baumeister;Todd F. Heatherton;Dianne M. Tice
A concept related to the tension-reducing effects of alcohol has been referred to as "stress-response dampening" (Levenson, Sher, Grossman, Newman, & Newlin, 1980). This theory suggests that alcohol selectively interferes ...
( Category:
Behavioral Sciences
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-07-01 | Author:Edward de Bono
CHANGES IN ESTABLISHED PATTERNS Thought flow through a particular path does not basically change that path but tends rather to reinforce it. How then do the established patterns, the established ...
( Category:
Behavioral Sciences
December 2,2017 )
Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave by Adam Alter
mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Adam Alter [Alter, Adam]
Cultural Maladies The insecurities that produce aggressive displays of masculinity in some cultures also inspire culture-specific maladies that affect isolated pockets of the population. Anorexia nervosa sufferers who restrict their ...
( Category:
Marketing & Sales
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Nicholas Epley [Epley, Nicholas]
TOO MUCH FROM TOO LITTLE Brilliant statisticians can look stupid when they conduct analyses on incomplete data. Four days before the 1936 U.S. presidential election, having polled 2.4 million Americans, ...
( Category:
Psychology & Counseling
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-08-04 | Author:Jim Davies [Davies, Jim]
6 OUR PSYCHOLOGICAL BIASES We evolved to survive and flourish in the world we happen to live in. But during the course of our lifetimes, we also learn to deal ...
( Category:
Psychology
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Joseph T. Hallinan [Hallinan, Joseph T.]
Superstition Breeds Confidence AND that, in a nutshell, is the chief value of superstition—it helps us hold on. Whenever we find ourselves buffeted by doubt and uncertainty, a belief in ...
( Category:
Psychology
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-24 | Author:Sam Wang & Sandra Aamodt
Chapter 17 DID I PACK EVERYTHING? ANXIETY We’re not trying to make you nervous, but the truth is that being too relaxed can kill you. In a world filled with ...
( Category:
Parenting
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2016-04-18 | Author:John Brockman
9 The Gene-Centric View: A Conversation Richard Dawkins & J. Craig Venter [January 23, 2008] Introduction by John Brockman It’s not every day you have Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter ...
( Category:
Evolution
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:B.F Skinner [Skinner, B.F]
The technology resulting from the study of reinforcement has been extended into other fields of psychological inquiry. It has permitted Blough, Guttman, and others to convert pigeons into sensitive psychophysical ...
( Category:
Psychology & Counseling
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-10 | Author:Susan M. Schneider
While serious practice brings progress toward a goal, it’s seldom noticeable enough to be intrinsically reinforcing. How do budding experts acquire the motivation to persevere? According to Ericsson’s research, they ...
( Category:
Behavioral Sciences
December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-11-02 | Author:Stella Collins
Increase levels of exercise John Medina in his book Brain Rules (2008) makes exercise his number one Brain Rule, and if you haven’t read somewhere that exercise is going to ...
( Category:
Biological Sciences
December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-01 | Author:Michael Merzenich [Merzenich, Michael]
For further explanations and extensive references and citations related to the information in this chapter, please visit www.soft-wired.com/ref/ch20 21 WHEN YOUR BRAIN CHANGES, YOU CHANGE Older Should Be Wiser, Better, ...
( Category:
Behavioral Sciences
December 2,2017 )
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