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What is a belief, and how does it differ from an opinion?
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Have there been any recent replications of the Hofling hospital experiment?
Awarded Sep 24 at 17:25
Why do humans enjoy works of fiction?
Awarded Sep 24 at 8:41
How to find the upper and lower quartiles of the Ryff scale?
Awarded Sep 18 at 12:46
What analogy can a teacher use to teach a child about neuroplasticity?
Awarded Sep 15 at 21:05
What role do circular network structures play in neural networks?
Awarded Sep 12 at 2:26
Why does regular repetition become a habit?
Awarded Sep 7 at 21:17
Is there a scientific explanation for dramatic body shaking and trembling in religious settings? (see videos for illustrative examples)
Awarded Sep 7 at 17:22
How does an animal learn what a predator is?
Awarded Aug 30 at 13:17
Is it possible for someone to have anorexia without body image issues?
Awarded Aug 27 at 20:04
Has the Open-Source Psychometrics Project been well received by the community?
Awarded Aug 25 at 4:01
Relationship between intelligence (IQ) and Big 5 Personality
Awarded Aug 23 at 7:15
Evidence-based best practices for writing a gratitude journal
Awarded Aug 22 at 20:17
Is it possible that people perceive time differently than others do?
Awarded Aug 13 at 20:57
What would explain an intense feeling of being extremely present, for no reason?
Awarded Aug 13 at 1:47
“Please enter alphanumeric characters” or “Please enter letters and numbers”? [closed]
Awarded Aug 11 at 18:55
Is an avoidance of incest/inbreeding learned or instinctive?
Awarded Aug 9 at 20:50
What is the definition of pathology?
Awarded Aug 9 at 9:31
Do we pick partner most similar to opposite-sex parent?
Awarded Aug 8 at 23:05
Is quantum tunneling required for nerve signals to cross the dendritic synaptic barrier?
Awarded Aug 1 at 20:51
What is the evolutionary purpose of envy?
Awarded Jul 29 at 20:16
Is it actually helpful to write todo lists?
Awarded Jul 29 at 15:40
Why are people insecure?
Awarded Jul 26 at 18:09
Does testosterone level cause more sexual dream content?
Awarded Jul 15 at 14:50
What's the difference between inductive and deductive research in cog sci?
Awarded Jul 12 at 11:27
Is all learning a subconscious activity?
Awarded Jul 6 at 15:51
Bootstrapping in Psychology
Awarded Jul 5 at 5:43
Research on aversion to cognitive effort?
Awarded Jun 24 at 17:07
What is the extent of social grooming in humankind?
Awarded Jun 22 at 17:30
Theories of Human Motivation
Awarded Jun 17 at 11:55
What is the data structure used by the brain to store data?
Awarded Jun 14 at 1:50
What is the difference between problem solving and intelligence?
Awarded Jun 11 at 17:52
Saying things to shock others [closed]
Awarded Jun 3 at 21:15
Why do we find things fun?
Awarded Jun 3 at 0:56
Is self-actualization really a need?
Awarded May 18 at 21:53
How do we know human brain development stops around age 25?
Awarded May 18 at 17:26
What is the connection between cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias?
Awarded May 15 at 21:33
What's the difference between the neuroendocrine system vs endocrine system?
Awarded May 9 at 23:05
Does mindful meditation inhibit diffuse thinking (aka default mode network), creativity and make studying less effective?
Awarded May 9 at 20:04
How to explain/name the “Feeling gigantic” sensation? [closed]
Awarded May 8 at 4:48
Catching a thief in a closed circle of people [closed]
Awarded May 6 at 18:42
Cognitive (neuro)science and related mailing lists
Awarded May 5 at 10:27
What is there in learning to ride a bicycle? [closed]
Awarded May 3 at 17:11
How to measure your stress levels?
Awarded May 2 at 12:20
How does subjective experience arise from matter?
Awarded May 2 at 8:27
Why does your recorded or objective voice sound different to what you hear in your own head?
Awarded Apr 27 at 12:20
Difference between voting patterns in men and women
Awarded Apr 26 at 3:57
Vigilance is an emotion?
Awarded Apr 15 at 19:55
What is the relationship between top-down mechanism and priming the visual system in the following experiment?
Awarded Apr 15 at 19:10
What makes a book easier or harder to read?
Awarded Apr 14 at 19:25
Are scintillating scotomas really caused by cortical spreading depression? If so, how is this known to be true?
Awarded Apr 13 at 6:30
Why past events reappear in dreams after a certain delay?
Awarded Apr 9 at 22:50
What is the term of having a high perceived confidence while having limited knowledge?
Awarded Apr 7 at 14:55
How to generate ipsative scores from a test with normative Likert-type items?
Awarded Apr 3 at 8:40
Why are trans-women more common than trans-men?
Awarded Mar 31 at 19:10
How to quantitatively measure strength of friendship using observable factors?
Awarded Mar 30 at 18:50
How does our brain consider something to be funny?
Awarded Mar 29 at 21:00
Why do we wake up from sleep (from a dream) as soon as we figure out reality?
Awarded Mar 29 at 13:00
Fetish development through classical conditioning?
Awarded Mar 23 at 17:50
Is there a specific term for false justifications?
Awarded Mar 22 at 2:25
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