Questions tagged [behavior]
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If reward works better than punishment in behavioural change, then why are people risk-averse by nature? [closed]
Wouldn't the former contradict the latter?
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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 ...
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Why do people bid on online auctions sooner than a few seconds before it ends? [closed]
This is something that has always puzzled me about human behavior on online auction platforms. I am talking about a specific platform where you can sell almost any item you want with a starting bid ...
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Nature vs. nurture in irritability?
For example, personally I'm quite irritable. It's not hard to irritate me and I swear either through an inner voice or whisper very often, but not out-loud. That does not happen very often. This is ...
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In a class room setting, why do people look at you when you are asking a question?
Picture this scenario:
You are a student enrolled in a large class
You arrived slightly late to the class, so you are sitting at the back of the class
You raise your hands to ask the teacher a ...
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What are the personality correlates of moral outrage?
It seems surprisingly hard to pin down what moral outrage actually involves. It's easier to say what it isn't:
However, moral outrage—anger at the
violation of a moral standard—should be ...
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Saying things to shock others [closed]
Is it strange or categorically bad to say things that shock others knowingly, and enjoy their reaction?
I have a close friend who partakes in such behavior, and I want to understand his motivation a ...
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Is CBT-based anger management effective?
I have no doubt that some (aggressive) medication will definitely work in cutting people's anger-outburst potential. But is the usual CBT-based anger management class effective? There's a 2013 BBC ...
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What emotion/sensory feeling is this?
The facial expression is: 2C+6+12+24A (Facial Action Coding System)
I can't find out what expression and emotion this represents. Also if anybody knows a site which lists more than the universal ...
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Scientific articles linking personal-professional growth
I am writing an allegation letter to obtain funds to enroll in an activity for personal development, although the frame in which I ask for the finds is in "transversal activities related to research ...
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Do we know a priori any rules about the world?
1) Is there any set of rules that human beings or, more generally, other sentient living beings know a priori before any learning process?
In other words, do sentient living beings always were born ...
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What hormones stimulate non-sexual intimate behaviour?
From wikipedia article sexual motivation and hormones, it is said that testosterone/estrogen, oxytocin and vasopressin are stimulating sexual behaviour. But I'm wondering if any of these hormones are ...
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Do laws and taboos affect personality in destructive ways?
There are some controversial laws and taboos in different societies. I will start with examples so you can better undestand what I will say and ask.
Example 1.
Sexual consent laws.
Imagine a ...
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Best meditation techniques to overcome Behavioral Addictions?
Meditation seems to be one of the top techniques recommended nowadays for self-development (e.g. McGonigal, K. 2011). For people who want to overcome behavioural addictions (i.e. any "addiction that ...
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How does one escape learned helplessness?
I've been researching learned helplessness lately, an idea that seems to be responsible for much of the negative behavior observed in humans. Basically, the idea is that once repeatedly exposed to an ...
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Do twin studies overestimate heritability?
Do twin studies overestimate heritability (for instance by putting the interaction between environment and genome under the label "heritable")? If so why? Would you have any research papers to point ...
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Culture and/or personality influences on asking feeler questions
Are there studies looking at what influences the propensity for asking feeler questions, e.g. how much does personality (trait of some kind) influence this and how much does culture affect it? It ...
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What is the psychological term for reframing that uses false statements?
I want to know if there is an established psychology term for this pattern of behavior:
A person does something, an action
That something becomes known to one or more people, and the action is seen ...
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Is talking to oneself loudly a very common sign of schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia.com states that
Replaying or rehearsing conversations out loud- i.e. talking to yourself [is a] (very common sign) [of schizophrenia].
Looking at the site it's not clear who edits ...
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Psychological behavior of talking alone in front of mirror.
My child, 5 years old girl recently talked to herself about she just changed to new school in front of mirror. It was alone and she just talked to herself on mirror. Is it psychologically normal ...
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Research on improving long term focus [closed]
I have seen a lot of research on concentration or focus in the short term. But what about concentration and focus in the long term? For example, if I set a goal to write a novel over the course of 4 ...
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How is hypnosis not mind control?
OK, you might have to bare with me on this one.
The concept that someone might influence another, even through suggestions, has never once sat comfortably with me.
Across the internet people seem to ...
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Name of the psychological condition for someone who creates dramas because they need it in their lives
I know someone who is very dramatic, sometimes I think they create dramas because they need it in their life, I’ve heard of other people describe the same thing, is there a name for this type of ...
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What is the difference between a bias and a heuristic explained in layman terms?
Can anyone explain the difference in a way which can be explained to some one who does not a have a clue about psychology? May be examples could help.
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Name for problems with a short-term pay off but small long term cost?
Is there a name for the types of human behavioural problems where making a particular choice isn't a problem, but making the same choice over and over again leads to a bad outcome? Where there is an ...
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Is there a named psychological condition for people who find every bad thing to be someone's “fault?” [closed]
Suppose person X is looking for something he has lost. Instead of thinking he left it somewhere, he is convinced that person Y has taken it. X is so convinced of this that he will not even look for ...
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Is there a scientific term for “situational” differences in behaviour?
Sorry for giving this such a vague title, as it is slightly difficult to explain.
The debate about differences in behaviour (say between the genders) is normally characterised as nature vs. nurture - ...
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Question about perceived stubborn behavior patterns [duplicate]
Is there a relative diagnosis for someone who can't simply adapt to and/or use something that is already established? This type of personality would also need to have their own idea to validate their ...
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Do violent videos and video games affect your behaviour?
So I've heard many people say watching violent videos affect your behaviour. But I myself don't observe any change in me.
So does it truly affect anyone and if yes how exactly?
Some of the sites ...
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Is an avoidance of incest/inbreeding learned or instinctive?
Is the natural avoidance of incest something that is learned or is the human brain programmed by instinct to have a negative response to incest? This of course would have an evolutionary advantage and ...
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Is there a psychological term for enduring hardship to achieve a promised state?
I'm new to CogSci and to Psychology in general, so forgive me if this question has been answered before...
I see a pattern in many sociological environments that goes like this:
Someone promises a ...
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Psychology of disrespect and being proud of law breaking. How does it work and how to combat it?
I'm gonna talk about Russia. :) I'm not interested in foreign policy, relations, for this question... maybe just a tiny bit.
A little preamble.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union (hereinafter S....
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does speakers exhibit change of behavior when switching from one language to another? [duplicate]
I have a strong belief that being a bilingual or multilingual when we switch from one language to another our behavior change accordingly. For example, my native language is Urdu, I feel comfortable, ...
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Does the brain's reward system also work when the reward comes before the experience?
Here's how I understand how the brain rewarding system works, as described by behaviorism:
When I eat a chocolate after learning, there's a chance that I'll connect the learning with the pleasurable ...
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Do we all look at pictures from left to right?
Because in western culture, writing and reading is from left to right, while arabic writing/reading is the opposite, chinese is from bottom to top and left to right (correct?) I don’t know about ...
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Is there any research which compares the bond between biological siblings vs. non-biological siblings or half-siblings? [closed]
A research like: “of 100 families that we studied we found: biological siblings had stronger/weaker bond vs. half-siblings vs non-biological and 40 years later their relationship was found stronger/...
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Are any kinds of behavior proved to correlate with estrogen levels?
Are any kinds of behavior proved to correlate with estrogen levels? Any studies done on this? Any indications of such correlations?
Various research has shown correlations with testosterone and ...
