Questions tagged [behavior]
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Do bodily manifestations (e.g. jerking) and intense euphoric sensations (e.g. “heat”, “electricity”) always co-occur in spiritual experiences?
After analyzing multiple reports of spiritual experiences, I've identified two general categories:
Bodily manifestations: shaking, jerking, trembling, contorting, etc. (see this related question for ...
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What sort of therapy could help a person become more extraverted?
Is there any therapy that is considered effective for changing a person's personality from introversion toward extraversion in the absence of any specific diagnosable disorder?
I am able to find many ...
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Why do some individuals enjoy watching scary videos?
Does watching scary videos affect mental health?
Are some individuals more/less prone to feeling scared than others?
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Looking for references discussing aspect of human/animal adaptivity and its pertaining computational objectives
Does anyone know some references (e.g. papers or book chapters) that discuss aspects of the adaptivity of human/animal based on studying the behavior and ideally, what computational objectives ...
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How to build a personal behavioural chart? [closed]
The question is realistically in two parts:
how could a personal behavioural survey be constructed?
are there any existing personal behavioural survey tools available?
The behavioural survey may ...
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Difference between conditioned freezing, shock sensitization to startle and conditioned fear potentiation to startle?
I am reading paper-listed below-that talks about three terms,
Conditioned freezing;
Shock sensitization to startle;
Conditioned fear potentiation to startle.
I understand that conditioned freezing ...
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What would induce more voting on StackExchange? [migrated]
I've been here a few months, really enjoying many of the discussions, but wondering why questions generally receive only a few votes? There are many counterexamples where questions get several votes, ...
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How to teach yourself to keep secrets?
What is the psychology behind keeping secrets and not being able to keep secrets?
Is it possible to prevent yourself telling secrets by imagining the dire consequences of telling secrets?
Is it ...
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What's the behaviour of downplaying the importance of something you wanted but didn't get called?
I've seen this phenomenon in various pieces of media, but recently observed it in real life and I'm wondering what it's called.
Basically, when you want something but don't get it, you downplay the ...
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Are we biased against other people's suggestions?
Recently, I have realized that whenever my friends suggest me a movie or a tv show to watch, there is an instinctive response inside me that always tells me to not try the suggestion. I then realized ...
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What is the difference between naive cynicism and naive realism?
I understand Naive realism as: I am objective and whoever disagrees with me is biased.
I don't get Naive cynicism though. Does is stand for: I am objective and others are more selfish than me?
What is ...
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How can positive and negative mindsets influence interpersonal relationships with others?
I want to know how positive and negative mindset can influence interpersonal relationships with others. For example: if you have a negative mindset, would people not want to relate with you?
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What is the effect of movies and TV series on criminals?
In whole genres of movies and TV series, criminals and criminal organizations have a central role, either in the role of villains or anti-heroes. And I think it is safe to assume that, given the broad ...
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Is there a scientific explanation for dramatic body shaking and trembling in religious settings? (see videos for illustrative examples)
Basically the title. I would like to know if there are scientific studies on the phenomenon of experiencing sudden body shaking and trembling in religious settings, usually in response to the command ...
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Is exercise considered a 'fight-flight' situation by our brain?
When you do heavy exercise like running, your heart rate, and breathing increases, is it because of the sympathetic nervous system controls it? Or the Sympathetic nervous system only activates on the ...
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Why do people seem to do the opposite of what they were told regardless if their actions have repercussions or not?
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 ...
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Psychological explanation for exorcisms?
I'm doing research on alleged testimonies and evidences of the Spirit Realm. In particular, I've been lately reviewing testimonies and live recordings of exorcisms. In doing this research I came ...
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Why humans like to rank things, make lists etc.?
I was wondering if anyone can provide some scientific explanation on why humans seem to like organising (cultural) items in arrangements such as lists, rankings, best-ofs etc. Some reference to ...
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Avoidant behaviour and ego boosting
Amateur here.
Let's suppose I know a person who is an expert on a certain subject, say history. Since I like history myself, I will ask him/her a number of questions on subjects that I know only ...
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Do we humans have an innate perception of what are secure behaviors? If yes, to what extent?
Recently, I heard in a podcast that people enjoy booths or corners in restaurants because we have a natural preference for spaces we deem more secure (e.g. in this case, we can see the rest of the ...
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“Being of the same mind” as a scientific concept
Folk psychology knows and uses the concept of "being of the same mind" that often is supposed to explain why two people find themselves sympathic or like (or even love) each other.
"Being of the same ...
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Why some people feel afraid to ask questions?
Suppose, someone wants to know something about a topic. To know better me must ask questions to others about the topic.
But, there are some people who have a great curiosity for the knowledge but ...
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Why do children who have been abused/neglected urinate/defecate in inappropriate places?
I have heard this is not too uncommon. What is the function of this behavior? From my experience with a child who has done this for years, this behavior is not an accident. He will urinate onto his ...
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Is there evidence that individuals consistently prefer entities according to their animacy?
It is evident from language that everyone can distinguish the living entities from the otherwise, or, rather, that there is a scale between two poles that is widely agreed upon. This observation is ...
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How are role and behaviour connected?
Let us look at definitions first.
A role (also rôle or social role) is a set of connected behaviors, rights,
obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation. It ...
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Research correlating stress/boredom with eating/comfort-seeking?
Imagine a few common stressful situations that we all go through:
Being struck in traffic
Having to wait for a bus, train...
Going through security/immigration control at an airport
Purely an ...
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Why do our brains act in such a evil way sometimes that hurts other people?
I have seen some real evil acts. And I almost lost confidence in humanity.
Why do we become so evil sometimes that hurts other people?
I guess everybody knows the Renaissance novel Les Miserables by ...
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Is there a subfield of psychometrics focused not on test questions but “high-resolution” “behavioral” data?
I'm new here but I thought y'all would be the best place to ask.
Is there some research sub-community that studies how to measure psychological constructs and processes when you have high-resolution ...
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Is there a protocol to cluster observed behaviour data? [closed]
I have observed a number of users in 3 public parks during the course of 2 months and have identified 60 different types of uses. I can't find a protocol to classify similar uses (not users) into ...
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Hobbies / interests correlated with Big 5 scores?
Are there any established treatments (I'm going to leave the exact terms a little bit vague because my understanding is vague) of which hobbies and interests are most likely to be attractive to ...
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Similiarity in psychological reactions among humans [closed]
Is it true that humans largely have the same psychological reactions when put in the same situations? Do reactions differ in relation to genetic differences, and if so how much? What sort of research ...
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Do we still not know whether violent video games negatively affect players?
As per the answer to the 2018 question on this site about the same topic, we did not know whether there was a causal link between exposure to violent video games and aggressive behavior because the ...
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How to explain individual ignorance towards people wanting to help?
Please allow me to introduce the context of the situation first before asking my questions.
This week I was taking part in a non-violent occupation of a public place (in Paris) within the context of ...
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Are there any studies regarding elderly people and learning resiliance?
On Parenting, issues regarding emotional resilience are often discussed as something of great value, a lifelong gift to give to one's child, and I cite studies and articles to help parents learn what ...
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Why do right-handed people put things in their left pocket, and vice versa?
I'm not entirely sure if their is a duplicate of this question, or if this is the right SE site, topic, so sorry in advance if I am wrong.
Throughout my life, I have noticed that many people, ...
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Scientific basis for the existence of microaggression
Microaggression has been used in the articles and has become more commonplace in the public discourse.
I remember reading articles proposing existence of microaggressions but have not seen any ...
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Is Autism associated with an increased drowning risk for adults?
I have found several popular articles (e.g. ScienceDaily, The Globe and Mail, and WebMD) indicating that children with Autism have a significantly elevated risk of drowning. The general theory seems ...
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If self-control is the executive function to resist temptation, how does the brain decide what is and what is not a temptation?
What determines the "default behaviour" if no self-control is applied?
Most documents refer to satisfaction of immediate desire, but that does not seem to explain how quite sophisticated behaviors ...
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What is it called to attack a person then say something uplifting?
Say a manager emailing the people under her in a way that to them feels degrading, and putting down. But at the end of the email its encouraging/uplifting type saying I know you are intelligent and ...
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Persistent problems among relationsips
Firstly my apologies if this isn't the correct se sight to ask this.
Background
I had a psychology professor some years ago (now that I think of it probably more like many years ago...) who ...
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Uncsoncious expectation of other people to be motivated by the same values as you
Is there a special term describing the situation when somebody automatically expects other people's behaviour to be motivated by the same values that motivate his own?
For instance, out of my ...
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Is there a Big Five personality assessment under an open-commercial license?
I am currently working on a project with a few students. It's an app that can test the big 5 personality test. The problem is, I am having trouble finding one that is under an open license and that we ...
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Is passive-aggressive behavior conscious or unconscious?
It is my experience that people who show passive aggressive behavior do not realize it or at least do not admit it.
Which leads me to the question whether passive-aggressive behavior can be ...
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Is there a mental disorder in which one is unable to determine personal preferences, and as a result, is a cause of great distress?
I know that our preferences and tastes help shape our behaviors and what activities we willingly engage in, but I also know that being faced with indecision is a common feature of the human experience....
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Why it is so difficult to think critically about family members behaviour?
It seems to me that some survival mechanisms working in us make the act of analyzing family members behaviour very difficult. We tend to perceive the family's behaviours as normal, even if there are ...
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Does the way a popular behaviour is discussed affect whether it would be imitated?
I think I’ve came across a contradiction in relation to these two phenomenon.
On the one hand there is the following example: there was a vintage advert against pollution whereby a lot of people were ...
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Are reaction time and memory physiological measure or behavioral observation?
I think that the choice made by a subject in a choice task should be behavioral observation. But I am not sure about reaction time and memory, which is more about ability instead of intention.
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Why some papers suggest that losses and gains are coded by the same mechanism while other suggest that distinct circuits anticipate gain and loss?
In this paper, it states that "Consistent with neuroimaging evidence suggesting that distinct circuits anticipate gain and loss,..."
However in this paper, it states "..., these results are consistent ...
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How is addiction distinguished from engagement when making a determination about a person's behaviour?
Based on some discussions over on another StackExchange forum site over a particular question about user engagement vs. addiction, it was suggested that the question be posed on the Psychology and ...
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Psychology Research, Questionnaire Help Needed
I am Computer Science student and studying Psychology as an elective. Now I was required to conduct a research on any topic. I chose: Negative Effects of Permissive Parenting Style on Youth of ...
