Behavioral Sciences
mobi |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Steven Pinker

In science the pursuit of idle curiosity often pays off in deeper understanding. People’s inquisitiveness about flied out, talismans, sabertooths, still lifes, outputted, rat-infested, and other unexpected forms has enhanced ...
( Category: Linguistics November 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Pinker [Pinker, Steven]

In science the pursuit of idle curiosity often pays off in deeper understanding. People’s inquisitiveness about flied out, talismans, sabertooths, still lifes, outputted, rat-infested, and other unexpected forms has enhanced ...
( Category: Linguistics November 9,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Humphrey, Nicholas

Our mental conditions are simply the symbols in consciousness of the changes which take place automatically in the organism. . . . [Thus] the feeling we call volition is not ...
( Category: Neuropsychology November 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-06 | Author:the purity myth [myth, the purity]

in Virginia even introduced a bill in 2005 that would make it a crime— punishable by a year in jail—for a woman to fail to report her miscarriage to the ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies October 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Nancy Friday [Friday, Nancy]

legs was real enough,” says Priscilla, and “although nothing else happened, this event remains so powerful for me and is the basis for a recurring fantasy.” Because they are the ...
( Category: Sexuality October 28,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner [Tetlock, Philip E. & Gardner, Dan]

Over Imagine you are a subject in an odd undergraduate psychology experiment. The researcher asks you to read a bit of information about someone. “Robert is a student,” it says. ...
( Category: Planning & Forecasting October 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-10-25 | Author:Edna B. Foa [Foa, Edna B.]

Only through his personal experience did Vann learn this necessary lesson: He doesn’t have to ritualize to get rid of his anxiety If I can control the first ten seconds ...
( Category: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) October 26,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:John Brockman [Brockman, John]

HUMANNESS DOUGLAS COUPLAND Writer, artist, designer; author, Worst. Person. Ever. Let’s quickly discuss larger mammals. Take dogs: We know what a dog is, and we understand “dogginess.” Look at cats: ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics October 17,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Ron Fry

CHAPTER 5 ONE CHAPTER TO A BETTER VOCABULARY The way to a great vocabulary is at your fingertips, and it has absolutely nothing to do with those word-a-day calendars. In ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology October 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Virginia Morell [Morell, Virginia]

WHEN MCCOMB WASN’T TESTING the elephants, she was watching them. She kept a close eye on each family’s dynamics, looking for situations that might inspire an experiment. Sometimes, she told ...
( Category: Mammals October 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Douglas T. Kenrick [Kenrick, Douglas T.]

The Evolved Computer Inside Your Head Imagine you are on the subway with a man sitting across from you. You may not notice whether he is wearing a plaid jacket, ...
( Category: Cognitive October 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1971-10-10 | Author:John Moore

The Patriarch On that misty autumn evening ten years ago William was already beginning to hobble with the arthritis which was soon to cripple him; I doubt whether he ever ...
( Category: Biographies October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 1996-03-07 | Author:Murasaki Shikibu [Shikibu, Murasaki]

The time for the return to the Palace was approaching, but we were constantly rushed off our feet. Her Majesty was involved in her book-binding, and so first thing every ...
( Category: Women October 10,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Barrett, Justin L. [Barrett, Justin L.]

CHAPTER 8 From Natural Religion to Theology IN THE FIRST six chapters I tried to build the case that human minds have a number of natural features that importantly shape ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sean Michael [Michael, Sean]

*** Jessy had been watching Mike, waiting for the right time to test his theory about Mike's... unique needs. And he'd been right. In spades. The look on Mike's face ...
( Category: Music October 9,2015 )