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Psycopaths tend to display remorselessbess while normal people don't.
But imagine 18th century USA, where Slaves were considered lower than animals.
Or consider, a modern day college group, where ...
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In Gestalt Therapy, when describing an adjustment in the field of psychotherpay, the authors write,
Unfortunately, the “adjustment” of much
psychotherapy, the “conforming to the reality-principle,” ...
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There is a special condition of some people where they imagine a thread that retraces the path where they have been before and feel compelled to not entangle it. They feel compelled to leave a place ...
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Mushin in Japanese and Wuxin in Chinese (無心 "no mind") is a mental
state. Zen and Daoist meditators attempt to reach this state, as well
as artists and trained martial artists. They also ...
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I'm having trouble understanding negative reinforcement because from different POVs, it just seems like punishment
My teacher gave the example of the seatbelt alarm in the car that sounds off when you ...
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The following is a common scientific statement, which you don't have to google long for to find:
The eye views images upside-down in the manner of a camera lens, but
our brains reinterpret this ...
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I've met people who say they did very well in algebra but were terrible at geometry in high school and some people who say they did very well in geometry but were terrible at algebra in high school.
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How long, on average (and with as much other statistical data, e.g. standard deviation, as possible) does physical attraction between male and female in a permanent relationship last?
I believe this ...
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This effect seems to be observed with almost any word. I would say this phenomenon 'works' for longer and complex words better.
When we repeat a word over and over again, it starts to sound very ...
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There are many examples of people wanting what they don't have. For example, a single man may want to have a girlfriend, but after some time of having a girlfriend, he may want to be single again. Or ...
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I want to start a project about the best schedules for learning activities focused on college students.
Since sleeping patterns are totally different in a young adult/teenager, and many of the classes ...
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This is a question inspired by this recent question on the Chinese Language & Usage website.
Someone asked why they needed to learn how to write Chinese characters, since today we mostly use ...
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ADHD is largely believed to be a heritable neural disorder. However, as I understand the details of the heritable pathway (or pathways?) are largely unsettled.
Recently I stumbled over this paper ...
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In Bloom's Taxonomy, knowledge is divided into four categories: 1) factual knowledge, 2) conceptual knowledge, 3) procedural knowledge, 4) meta-cognitive knowledge.
Terminology is a type of factual ...
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Is there any evidence that children of parents who are accepting and affirming in general of their children have lower rates of depression?
I mean the opposite of personally critical, negating, ...
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