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What term can describe the feeling that a job just does itself?

motivation

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What is the name of the tendency to portray oneself in the positive light?

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What are the differences between bipolar channels and monopolar channels for EEG?

neuroscience eeg electrophysiology

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Why children dreams aren't distorted?

dreams

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How reliable is this self-administered Mensa IQ test?

cognitive-psychology learning iq reliability

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math problems which become easy when given to social processing part of brain

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Do you need need to have an above average IQ in order to have a reasonable chance of successful career in STEM fields?

measurement

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What are the ways to measure stress levels regularly at home?

measurement stress

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Human/social behavior when one emphasizes their own superior achievements over others'

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How is sexual arousal different in men and women?

brain neurology neuroscience

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Has criminal-related research been conducted regarding critical childhood experiences/adverse turning points for individuals who commit murder?

learning criminology children

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Is language an abstract concept that is voiced out though a national tongue?

brain language language-processing brain-computer-interface

modified Jan 5 at 20:20 Michael 628

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How is it ascertained that people treated for persecutory delusions are not indeed being persecuted?

abnormal-psychology psychiatry diagnosis ethics

modified Dec 30 '21 at 7:09 Chris Rogers 10.8k

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Does human biology compute audio fast enough to benefit from phase accurate audio propagation in 3D space?

perception computational-modeling spatial-cognition auditory-discrimination

modified Dec 31 '21 at 14:46 Scott Stensland 123

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What causes the perception of time

brain perception

Jan 20 at 15:01

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Is there any evidence that some people who claim to see auras around persons actually see them?

neuroscience vision hallucinations pseudoscience

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Electric communication between single neurons

cognitive-neuroscience memory eeg consciousness electrophysiology

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Is there a point in life where you should just kill yourself? [closed]

experiment-design

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Is depression linked to having difficulty into doing activities that are intensive (be it physically or mentally)?

behavior depression

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Is it allowed for a psychologist to claim to be a friend of the patient

therapy ethics

modified Dec 27 '21 at 15:20 Chris Rogers 10.8k

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Is it necessary to treat schizoid personality disorder? [closed]

personality personality-disorder disorder

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Why does a human mind repeat the same mistakes? [closed]

brain dopamine

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After focusing for a long time, why do certain activities have the effect of refreshing or rejuvenating your mind?

learning motivation attention

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How do we memorize ordered lists?

memory long-term-memory short-term-memory

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How do humans remember information?

neuroscience cognitive-neuroscience memory

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Justified vs Left-aligned(/ranged-left) text

writing

modified Dec 28 '21 at 10:41 AliceD♦ 19.5k

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Does all motivation and desire originate in the limbic system?

neuroscience cognitive-neuroscience brain

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What are the leading theories on what is intelligence, how can it be assessed and what biases and factors must be considered in this topic? [closed]

cognitive-psychology cognitive-neuroscience measurement intelligence iq

asked Jan 20 at 16:38 Fabio Freitas 1

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Identifying cause of differing drive in similar situations

cognitive-psychology motivation

modified yesterday Chris Rogers 10.8k

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How to calculate Fano Factor for spike train data?

neuroscience electrophysiology

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How to overcome mental blocks when studying?

attention concentration

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What is the difference between brain parcellation and brain segmentation? (question based on Freesurfer)

neuroscience

modified Dec 29 '21 at 6:17 Chris Rogers 10.8k

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Searching for correlation between emotions on the couples or partners by thermal photo

freud

modified Jan 3 at 6:17 Chris Rogers 10.8k

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Belief that I have more holistic understanding and other are just stuck to their details

bias cognitive

answered Dec 28 '21 at 9:44 Chris Rogers 10.8k

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If you can draw, is that an indication of high spatial IQ?

iq spatial-cognition

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Why do pretty girls needlessly keep eyesore "beauty spots" in their faces? [closed]

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Which psychological phenomena explains why someone would use something they paid for more than something that's free?

rationality

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Can a deed be good if it benefits you? [closed]

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What is the best network-based cognitive model to explain and predict political decision-making?

cognitive-modeling computational-modeling connectionism causal-inference agent-based-modeling

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What Classical Conditioning says about multiple or multimodal stimuli?

behaviorism animal-cognition conditioning stimulation

asked Jan 5 at 21:43 Bruno 41

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Can we improve critical thinking for children by reading?

educational-psychology

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What is the difference between reminiscence and nostalgia?

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what the name for "feeling that my bones are so thin"? [closed]

emotion psychology emotion-perception emotional-expression

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Concentration & music [duplicate]

working-memory concentration habituation

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Why are synapses that are connected to co-transmitting presynaptic vesicles uniformly distributed on the postsynaptic neuron?

neuroscience neurophysiology cell-signaling

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Question about writing effective experimental prompts

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Do psychotherapist need to keep track of patients' daily activities during long-term therapies? [closed]

psychiatry therapy

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Do IQ tests measure anything innate? [closed]

cognitive-psychology intelligence

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