Cognitive Psychology
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-17 | Author:Dan Gardner [Gardner, Dan]

THE CONFIDENCE GAME In much the same way, a strong, enthusiastic, confident speaking style has a power that transcends mere rationality—a power the psychologist Stephen Ceci demonstrated in an ingenious ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:Duncan J. Watts [Watts, Duncan J.]

FUTURE SHOCK No matter how carefully you adhere to this advice, a serious limitation with all prediction methods is that they are only reliable to the extent that the same ...
( Category: Decision-Making & Problem Solving November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2010-10-15 | Author:Aldous Huxley

I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience and of its interpretation in terms of theology, its translation into art. But visionary experience is not always blissful, ...
( Category: Essays November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-24 | Author:John C. Norcross [Norcross, John C.]

CHECK YOURSELF: COUNTERING Answer the following questions about your behavior in the past week using a 5-point scale: 1 = Never, 2 = Seldom, 3 = Occasionally, 4 = Often, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Paul Dolan [Dolan, Paul]

Let others decide Another more radical option is sometimes to let people you trust actually make decisions for you. Allow your desires, projections, and beliefs to be reflected in their ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 7,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas M. Sterner [Sterner, Thomas M.]

All the patience you will ever need is already within you. My mother, who passed on from cancer a number of years ago, once expressed to me an observation she ...
( Category: Educational Psychology November 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Mlodinow, Leonard [Mlodinow, Leonard]

AT A QUARTER to eight on the evening of September 26, 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy strode into the studio of the CBS affiliate WBBM in downtown Chicago.26 ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dan Ariely

Consider the story of Andrew Potok, a blind writer who lives in Vermont. Potok was a gifted painter who gradually began losing his sight to an inherited eye disease, retinitis ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:DiSalvo, David [DiSalvo, David]

The Sway of Metaphor Whether in person or on screen, one of the strongest influences on our thinking is woven into the verbiage all of us use in discussions big ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Antonio Damasio [Damasio, Antonio]

Figure 8.3 : The brain-stem nuclei involved in generating the core self. As shown in Figure 4.1, several brain-stem nuclei work together to ensure homeostasis. But the homeostasis-related nuclei project ...
( Category: Neurology November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Graziano, Michael S. A. [Graziano, Michael S. A.]

11 Consciousness as Integrated Information In the previous chapter I discussed one of the most common theoretical approaches to consciousness—the social construction of consciousness. A second common theoretical approach is ...
( Category: Psychiatry November 6,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Susan Blackmore

Chapter 6 Conscious will Do we have free will? Hold out your hand in front of you and – whenever you feel like it, and of your own free will ...
( Category: Neurology October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-13 | Author:Pierce Howard [Howard, Pierce]

( Category: Neurology October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Jarrett, Christian

Bodily Effects on Thoughts and Morality Those last two studies involving marbles and upward movements come from an emerging field in psychology known as “embodied cognition,” (also sometimes referred to ...
( Category: Cognitive October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Carey, Benedict [Carey, Benedict]

Take that, Archimedes! That’s a stroke of mad kid-genius you won’t see in any study or textbook, nor in early discussions of the puzzle, going back more than a hundred ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology October 16,2014 )