Behavioral Sciences
epub |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: Social Psychology & Interactions May 21,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1992-10-17 | Author:Karen Horney

Auxiliary Approaches to Artificial Harmony [[131]]IT IS A commonplace that one lie usually leads to another, the second takes a third to bolster it, and so on till one is ...
( Category: Psychiatry May 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:Baruch Spinoza [Spinoza, Baruch]

The emotion called a passive experience is a confused idea whereby the mind affirms a greater or lesser force of existence of its body, or part of its body, than ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality May 19,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-07-08 | Author:Ferriter, Diarmaid [Ferriter, Diarmaid]

‘Upright citizens, capable of spotting dirt at a hundred yards’ The following decade, in the most shameful episode of bullying in Irish theatre history, reputations, careers and a marriage were ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling May 18,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

And so it was that David Lee Roth and King Solomon both engaged in a fruitful bit of game theory—which, narrowly defined, is the art of beating your opponent by ...
( Category: Creativity & Genius May 14,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:The Lives of the Noble Grecians;Romans, Volume II

TIBERIUS GRACCHUS HAVlNG completed the first two narratives, we now may proceed to take a view of misfortunes, not less remarkable, in the Roman couple, and with the lives of ...
( Category: Historical May 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

TIBERIUS GRACCHUS HAVlNG completed the first two narratives, we now may proceed to take a view of misfortunes, not less remarkable, in the Roman couple, and with the lives of ...
( Category: Historical May 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-03 | Author:Stefanie Marsh & Bojan Pancevski [Marsh, Stefanie & Pancevski, Bojan]

She remembers how it is outside but cannot see it. Cannot smell it. Instead she eats and sleeps and, in between, her father descends to the cellar: buoyant when she ...
( Category: Hoaxes & Deceptions May 12,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Iain McGilchrist

CHAPTER 9 THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION THE PERIOD OF PERHAPS SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS THAT USED TO BE KNOWN AS THE Dark Ages, between the fall of Rome in the ...
( Category: Neuropsychology May 10,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-17 | 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 May 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:Craig, David [Craig, David]

Often liars will deliberately increase the amount of eye contact in the hope of appearing more sincere. Liars may look away immediately after having lied. Liars may raise their hand ...
( Category: Personality May 3,2014 )
mobi, epub |nld | 2009-09-03 | Author:Ron Hale-Evans

Dit komt overeen met wat je handen eerder deden. Je tilt alleen je duim op. De vingerregel (zoek de vinger met de laagste macht van 2 die naar beneden wijst, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology April 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Zen in the Art of Writing (pdf) [Writing, Zen in the Art of]

the trees to seed the blood. I was amused and somewhat astonished at a critic a few years back who wrote an article analyzing Dandelion Wine plus the more realistic ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory April 24,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 [Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963]

APPENDIX I TWO OTHER, LESS effective aids to visionary experience deserve mention – carbon dioxide and the stroboscopic lamp. A mixture (completely non-toxic) of seven parts of oxygen and three ...
( Category: Essays April 24,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-04-23 | Author:Tony Buzan

A further realization from this last point is that creative thinking leads to humour and the probability of more humour! Humour is one of the hallmarks of the creative mind ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology April 24,2014 )