Behavioral Sciences
epub |eng | 2012-04-27 | Author:Neil Bright

Yes but Said to be the “most common game played at social gatherings, committee meetings, and psychotherapy groups,” (Berne 1964, Games People Play, 58) Yes But is launched by people ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects April 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

We’ve made calibrations of various kinds of records of athletic achievement, including movies. Of all the movies about sport studied, the French film The Big Blue produced the highest calibration.1 ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology April 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-04 | Author:Warren, Jeff [Warren, Jeff]

With all these exciting advances in mind, I began my own neurofeedback sessions, a roller-coaster saga that prompted my friend James at one point to say I had better call ...
( Category: Neurology April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Robert Trivers [Trivers, Robert]

RAMMY AND ME. Glenroy leaning against me at Alligator Pond near his shop. (Trivers File Photo.) What to Do When a Crocodile Comes Straight at You? Someone asked Glenroy what ...
( Category: Developmental Biology April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Richard M. Roberts & Roger Kreuz [Roberts, Richard]

7 Making Memories … The Workings of Working Memory Have you ever wondered about the length of telephone numbers? When the engineers working for the Bell Telephone Company created the ...
( Category: Neurology April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:Steven Mithen

24 Engraved bone plaque from Grotte du Taï, Drôme, France. Length, 8.8 cm. It is likely that all types of artifacts, including those that might appear to be mundane tools ...
( Category: Cognitive April 20,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Daniel M. Wegner & Kurt Gray [Wegner, Daniel M.]

Figure 35: Reptilian An artist’s interpretation of a Reptilian leader of the New World Order, a legitimate conspiracy theory. Why do conspiracy theories emerge so robustly to explain tragedies such ...
( Category: Cognitive April 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:John J. Ratey & David Perlmutter

Any behavioral advantage in dealing with highly dangerous events would have increased the probability of reproductive success. A dream-production mechanism that tends to select threatening waking events and simulate them ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology April 17,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:Jerome Kagan [Kagan, Jerome]

The Meaning of Blood Flow Most conclusions about the relations between brain activity and psychological outcomes in humans are based on only one measure of neuronal activity, called the BOLD ...
( Category: Cognitive April 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:John R Searle [JOHN R. SEARLE]

Consciousness and Value Any attempt to describe consciousness, any attempt to show how consciousness fits into the world at large, always seems to me inadequate. What we are leaving out ...
( Category: Humanism April 15,2016 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Suzana Herculano-Houzel

It seems fitting that great apes, elephants, and probably cetaceans have similar numbers of neurons in the cerebral cortex, in the range of 3 to 9 billion: fewer than humans ...
( Category: Biology April 14,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Nigel Benson

Education According to the Gestalt approach (see Wertheimer’s Productive Thinking, 1945), the learner perceives the learning situation as a whole. So, the teacher should present the learning situation as a ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology April 11,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-16 | Author:Kandel, Eric R. [Kandel, Eric R.]

WITH THE TOOLS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND THE SUPPORT of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in hand, we could now address questions about genes and memory. Since 1961 my experimental ...
( Category: Neurology April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-20 | Author:Benjamin Kilham

In our world things are much more complicated, and perceptions of fairness are a lot less exact. Today, when people think about a contract, we think about a legal document ...
( Category: Wildlife April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Heidi M. Ravven [Ravven, Heidi M.]

Can anyone ever engage in open-minded, non–post hoc reasoning [i.e., moral reasoning that does not consist in rationalizations after the fact] in private? Yes . . . [but that is] ...
( Category: Free Will & Determinism April 8,2016 )