Cognitive Psychology
epub |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Shlomo Breznitz [Hemingway, Shlomo Breznitz and Collins]

STRESS: WE KNOW IT WHEN WE FEEL IT “Stress” is one of those concepts that everyone understands yet no one can easily define. Though humans respond to stress in the ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Martinez, Michael E.

THE FLYNN EFFECT A vast body of data tells us that an intergenerational shift in IQ is not a mere theoretical possibility, but rather a startling and potent reality. Starting ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Roam, Dan [Roam, Dan]

Oops, my Blah-Blahmeter is twitching: Too many names are coming at me too fast. In one paragraph, Carter has introduced more characters than I can keep track of. My fox ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-30 | Author:Daniel H. Pink

Bomeisler is a sympathetic teacher with the gentle manner of Mr. Rogers had Mr. Rogers done time on Paris’s left bank. During each drawing exercise, he glides around the room ...
( Category: Specific Demographics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Ariely, Dan [Ariely, Dan]

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 March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Adam Alter [Alter, Adam]

Cultural Maladies The insecurities that produce aggressive displays of masculinity in some cultures also inspire culture-specific maladies that affect isolated pockets of the population. Anorexia nervosa sufferers who restrict their ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-26 | Author:John J. Medina [Medina, John J.]

you call this rest? If you ever get a chance to listen in on a living brain while it is slumbering, you’ll have to get over your disbelief. The brain ...
( Category: Leadership March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bruce Nussbaum

AURA: EMBEDDING MEANING IN YOUR OFFERINGS Music moves people. It lifts them out of their everyday moments and takes them to another place. Sales of the headphones that Dre created ...
( Category: Cognitive March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Carl Honore [Honore, Carl]

CHAPTER NINE CROWDSOURCE: The Wisdom of the Masses Two heads are better than one. Proverb “Thetta reddast” is an expression you hear in Iceland a lot these days. It roughly ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Joshua Foer [Foer, Joshua]

Twain lived in an age when the technologies for storing and retrieving external memories—paper, books, the recently invented photograph and phonograph—were still primitive compared to what we have today. He ...
( Category: Applied Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Mark Changizi [Changizi, Mark]

It’s easy to see why three-year-old aggressive and streaking behaviors would prompt a well-timed response in others (especially parents). Another common category of human behavior that elicits a behavioral response ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Edward Slingerland [Slingerland, Edward]

As with the Woodcarver Qing story, we have the process of “forgetting” taken to an extreme: not only the moral teachings and practices of the Confucians but also the body ...
( Category: Eastern March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-25 | Author:Dan Hurley

In case you were wondering what all this running and tumbling has to do with intelligence, it just so happens that performance on the animal fluency test and on similar ...
( Category: Biology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Nicholas Epley [Epley, Nicholas]

TOO MUCH FROM TOO LITTLE Brilliant statisticians can look stupid when they conduct analyses on incomplete data. Four days before the 1936 U.S. presidential election, having polled 2.4 million Americans, ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations March 26,2014 )
MOBI, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Tammet, Daniel [Tammet, Daniel]

7 Ticket to Kaunas My parents always expected that I would go to university. They supported me steadfastly throughout my studies and were proud of my academic success. Both my ...
( Category: General March 26,2014 )