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Memory competitions have different events; most of them revolve around memorizing digits, cards, faces, etc. over a defined period of time. However, world champions use established techniques like ...

I've observed in my workplace that if you instruct/criticise/feedback a department or a team the individuals in the team don't appear to take it to heart or onboard as its clearly not aimed at them, ...

I just heard a song (unsure of the name) which is all about how this girl does nothing but "bring me down" (the male singer), "making me a fool all over town", etc. I've heard the same lyrics in a ...

I'm a college student, and I utilize the free counseling service on campus. Once a therapist told me to register for a shorter session because he didn't think I needed 1 hour and he wanted to be more ...

Please forgive what may be an elementary question for many of you. I am trying to understand the range of firing rates in an idealized neuron. I understand what governs the maximum firing rate of a ...

From the book "The future is faster than you think" by Peter Diamandis, Steven Kotler: “Consider the nine-dot problem, a classic test of creative problem-solving. Connect nine dots with four lines in ...

The following script is from Trappenberg's Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience and is used to test a perceptron's robustness against noise. However, how would one alter it to test the output ...

For research I want to take IQ test of my target population, how should I go throught it. Is it reasonable to pick question from any other research paper ? How should I go about it? . Thanks

Is there a type of mental illness that manifests in very brief episodes of confusion over very simple, seemingly impossible mistakes to make? For instance, the brief inability to tell if a surface (...

Iam just an enthusiast.When I look for how does our brain works it boils down to firing of neurons in a pattern. I read that all of our thoughts, memory is due to firing of networks of neurons in a ...

I’ve read that energy supply to brain is constant. So if energy supply is constant then what happens when brain does high energy consuming operation?

When a person is made an "offer he can't reject" or is suddenly presented with a choice, his reality changes in order to fit for the necessary actions What makes something unviable without question ...

Why is bullying wrong, but "equality" wouldn't? It's true that bullying causes psychological damage to those being bullied, yet it has also been observed that it can produce psychological benefits ...

In Germany glass fiber internet rollout is far behind other countries of comparable weatlh. Some communities in rural areas have decided to take action and invest in the infrastructure themselves, ...

Which area in the brain has the highest number of synapses or connections? I couldn't find any reliable link on the internet.

6 months ago, I started experiencing lots of panic attacks for no apparent reason, my emotions change rapidly throughout the day. When someone helps me with something, my stress goes down for a short ...

I'm struggling to find research about the differences (if any) between how different genders connect on a deep and meaningful level. Specifically Do women try to connect on an emotional level with ...

I recently read an article on the distracted mind. It spoke of cognition falling under different categories. Those categories of cognitive control were: The three major faculties: (1) attention, (...

I am currently reading Psychology and Life by Richard J. Gerig, where emotions are defined as A complex pattern of changes, including physiological arousal, feelings, cognitive processes, and ...

In an evolutionary and natural context, we may argue that stupidity should tend to disappear for obvious reasons. But in our current society, this does not appear likely to me, or at least obvious. I ...

I'm looking for documentation or studies related to the formation of sexual preferences from experience (not innate) regarding physical appearance & behavior of the prefered partner. This is a ...

Are there any epistemological differences in the definitions of quality, personality, characteristics, and traits? Meaning, are there any justified distinctions concerning the usage of these words in ...

(This is not specifically a question about a scene from an old TV series, but about the human behavior by the females in the scene.) In the "Beard Boys" episode of the classic animated TV series "...

In My Country Uganda, we are put under total lockdown. a curfew was imposed that starts at 7 Pm, but on the contrary, when it clocked 7 PM, people were not in their houses but rather on the verandas ...

Curious in finding out if there have been any psychological studies done on uncertainty & what the results of those studies have been. Have there been any frameworks or methodologies on combating ...

My question is in regards to a fungal infection, but I am open to learning about viral or bacterial infections. That being said, is it possible that a fungus/virus/etc could target a specific area of ...

This is my first question in this forum and hence forgive me if the question is amateurish. I was always interested in what a psychology expert will say about this. Consider a boy who is dumb from ...

I live in a devout Hindu family. We hang a lot of pictures (paintings) of deities on the walls. My mother is a believer of Sai Baba, a saint and a godly figure. We have 3 pictures of him hanging on ...

I was watching Shutter Island when I first heard this expression "Defense Mechanism" Now I'm wondering how those could be used to deal more effectively and healthily with toxic/negative people. For ...

An interesting phenomenon occurs when a new task is given to a programmer. Some just go directly to their seat and start reading about it, or even writting some code. Others think and write on their ...

On the Psychology of Jealousy and Envy I'm going to split these two emotions down and I’m going to focus firstly on Envy. To differentiate between the two: Jealousy is the fear of losing something ...

At work, sometimes, we get in touch with kind people. But often, we are with rude people, and here, we cannot control others, even if they shout... my question is ... how to not feel the shouting ? I ...

I'm new to this forum. My name is Arnau, I'm 21 years old and I live in Barcelona. I was brought up speaking two languages, mainly Catalan and Spanish, and I started learning English in school. I ...

I know that the IQ statistic is designed to give it a mean of 100 and that you'll certainly never find someone with an IQ below 1 or above 300, but that tells us very little about the variance or ...

I'm an occasional meditator and I've noticed that conceptual thought often produces eye movements, and I'm curious if anyone has tried using eye movements as a form of biofeedback. The Muse headset ...

Hopefully this is the right area. but for some background, for a school project I'm currently trying to design a medically accurate zombie. I have half a semesters knowledge of basic physiology, and ...

Is there a correlation between weak spatial memory and good creative thinking? This seems to be contradictory, because if you look at the history, world famous chess player had good memory.Can ...

Considering Elon Musk's new Nueralink, the original Utah Array, and what happens to an individual nueron with long term potentiation, what happens to a nueron on a cellular level (and consequently ...

Robert Cialdini discusses 7 major influence buckets in his 2 books (Influence, Pre-suasion) Being: Social Proof. Personal Consistency & Commitment. Authority. Unity. Reciprocity. Scarcity. ...

Sometimes we do a task while listening to a song, conversation or something else. The moment we engage in the task, our concentration moves to the task, though our ear is open or on, and technically ...

For people without DID, dream experiences include having other characters in one's dreams behave in ways one can't predict or control, sometimes there can be a "switch" into lucid dreaming where more ...

My wife suffered from a Traumatic Head Injury several months ago. She had 2 Brain surgeries due to bleeding of the brain. As a result, she is unable to speak words other than yes, no, don't know and ...

The experience obtained by Jaunting while being conscious is clearly impossible to attain in real life (if you don't know what I'm talking about, you can ignore this sentence). However, someone posted ...

Can someone be completely healed from a long-held addiction or compulsive disorder in a matter of seconds by a sudden emotional cathartic experience? My question is motivated by two conversion ...

I'm wondering about a video game state of mind mentioned in an episode of Zero Punctuation in which Yahtzee states then all of a sudden you enter a sort of cosmic state of hyper awareness and beat ...

Ok, I am not going to fuss around the issue. The question is simple, but the internet is oozing with self-proclaimed behavioral scientists answering the question and it's hard to find a good, ...

I am not trying to cause a discomfort, but just wondering if there is ANY research that shows Felis Catus is not associating Physical Positive Punishment with Bad Behaviour. I am just seeing it is ...

This questions is around my observation of my own behavioral pattern. I am quite good at avoiding junk foods on some days and on others, I am miserably fail. I have some mild clinical depression and ...

I find that if you tell someone to give you 20$ vs. giving you 1$ everyday for 20 days - people react differently. Similarly ...

I recently read the "Pictorial Personality Traits Questionnaire for Children (PPTQ-C)—A New Measure of Children’s Personality Traits". I have searched a lot to download or buy the test but I couldn't ...