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Design of Everyday Things by Norman Don
mobi |eng | 2002-09-18 | Author:Norman, Don [Norman, Don]

NARROW STRUCTURES A cookbook recipe is a good example of a narrow structure (figure 5.3). A narrow structure arises when there are only a small number of alternatives, perhaps one ...
( Category: Ergonomics February 13,2015 )
Mind Change by Susan Greenfield
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-02-10 | Author:Susan Greenfield

now have a clear picture of how media violence increases aggression in short- and long-term contexts. Immediately after exposure to media violence, there is an increase in aggressive behavior tendencies ...
( Category: Psychology February 11,2015 )
Dreams of Awakening: Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep by Charlie Morley
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-03 | Author:Charlie Morley [Morley, Charlie]

* * * Number 9: See the Bigger Picture An entire menu for a three-day residential retreat, much of this book and part of a TED talk are just three ...
( Category: Dreams February 10,2015 )
Wisdom by Stephen S. Hall
epub |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:Stephen S. Hall [Hall, Stephen S.]

CHAPTER TEN PATIENCE Temptation, Delayed Gratification, and the Biology of Learning to Wait for Larger Rewards The ego isn’t an organ that might sit in a central place like Descartes’s ...
( Category: Neuropsychology February 8,2015 )
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-11 | Author:Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson [Grandin, Temple & Johnson, Catherine]

HANDLING FEAR AGGRESSION Not all dogs who bite are dominant. Shy biters bite people because they’re afraid, not because they are dominant. German shepherds who bite are usually shy biters. ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication February 3,2015 )
The World's Greatest Idea by John Farndon
epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:John Farndon

#26 Government In 1791, the great libertarian campaigner Thomas Paine wrote in The Rights of Man that ‘society is a blessing, but government is evil’. In his typically robust fashion, ...
( Category: Trivia February 2,2015 )
The Man Who Couldn't Stop by David Adam
epub |eng | | Author:David Adam

TEN The runaway brain A popular way to visualize the brain is to clench your fist and stick your thumb out and point it at the ground, as if you ...
( Category: Memoirs January 30,2015 )
Hallucination by Philosophy & Psychology
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Philosophy & Psychology

1. Schellenberg (2010) also puts forward a mixed position. But her conception of the intentional element of perception is different from the one suggested here. While she promotes a Fregean ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology January 29,2015 )
That Savage Water
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew R. Loney [Loney, Matthew R.]

THE VAGRANT BORDERS OF KASHMIR Diesel fumes spin from exhaust pipes, vaporous tails in the hot morning air. Autos weave past on the street below already lifting sharp odours of ...
( Category: Police Procedurals January 29,2015 )
Michaela's Choice
epub |eng | 2012-11-27 | Author:Lisa Harris

Eight The following Saturday, after the breakfast dishes were washed and put away, Michaela saddled up Honey and headed over to the Johnson farm. The wind blew through the trees, ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions January 29,2015 )
Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-09-01 | Author:Sue Savage-Rumbaugh [Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue]

In this important experiment, Sherman has been shown some bananas being put into a box on his side c a divided room with a window separating him and Austin. Austin ...
( Category: Animal Psychology January 29,2015 )
The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate by George Lakoff
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:George Lakoff [Lakoff, George]

Liberals regularly propose measures set within classical liberal economic theory: raising the minimum wage, massive programs for rebuilding infrastructure, better safety nets, early childhood education and better education in general, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism January 29,2015 )
Robot 1 - I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
mobi |eng | 2004-03-16 | Author:Isaac Asimov

Measures on Hyper Base had been taken in a sort of rattling fury—the muscular equivalent of an hysterical shriek. To itemize them in order of both chronology and desperation, they ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
Punished By Rewards by Alfie Kohn
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2015-01-22 | Author:Alfie Kohn

Compare and contrast performance appraisals and report cards. What are the three reasons that abolishing rewards will not cause students to cheer, "Hooray! Wow we can be intrinsically motivated.!"? Can ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations January 25,2015 )
How the Body Knows Its Mind: The Surprising Power of the Physical Environment to Influence How You Think and Feel by Sian Beilock
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:Sian Beilock [Beilock, Sian]

CHAPTER 8 The Roots of Social Warmth In 1957 at the University of Wisconsin Primate Laboratory run by the psychologist Harry Harlow, Jane, a tiny one-day-old rhesus monkey, was separated ...
( Category: Developmental Psychology January 22,2015 )

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