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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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Is movement/activity level related to serotonin availability or reuptake rates in the brain?
I'm aware of this research article that explores the relationship between motion and serotonin systems: 5-HT and motor control: a hypothesis.
Based on the article above, it seems to me that a "very ...
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Understanding the difference between stress and anxiety with goal directed behaviour
I'm currently writing a paper and one of the points is about cognitive performance being impeded on in general anxiety disorder patients.
The issue I have is that I found a great paper:
The stressed ...
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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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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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TOTE: Desired vs perceived state = Fight or flight
A key concept in 1960s control theory is TOTE (Test-Operate-Test-Exit)1:
The concept seems to be neatly mapped to a modern cognitive concept:
The brain constantly compares perceived state to the ...
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What happens in the brain upon a subsequent exposure to a desired stimulus within a short time?
I'm trying to understand what happens within a person's brain when a focus on an object of desire is temporarily disrupted by an outside event. In particular, what happens when the person focuses on ...
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Why does smiling indicate happiness? Why couldn’t frowning indicate happiness and smiling indicate sadness?
Is there an evolutionary reason behind this? What about raising eyebrows when surprised, or lowering them when angry?
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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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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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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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How is it called when we explicitly quantify a letter or digit instead of spelling it out multiple times?
When we need to repeat a letter or digit several times (for example when spelling out a number or an acronym) it is easier to explicitly quantify it instead of spelling it out repeatedly: for example ...
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Behavioral and mood differences between D1 and D2 dophamine receptors action in context of monogamy and out of it
Claim: I initially thought of posting this to Biology SE, but the fact that the question finds its resting formation in the area of cognition/mood/personality, I decided to post it here.
It is stated ...
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Are adult negativity or resentment related to an infant crying for attention?
I've recently came across an idea, expressed by a spiritual author Ekhart Tolle, that for adults, the internal experience of negativity or resistance to life situations can be far more harmful than ...
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Reference tools to measure propensity to cooperate and to forgive?
QUESTION:
Where can I find reference tools (e.g. questionnaires) to measure the psychological propensity to adopt some behaviors, such as cooperation, cheating and forgiveness?
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The 2017 &...
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Randomized pair assignment for testing
Scenario
Take a group of students. During the school/academic year, they will be assigned several tests (ideally one less than the number of students). Usually, students are tested and graded ...
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Word for behavior change when a superior is around?
People (especially in groups) act differently when they are aware that a superior is present. I am looking for a term that describes this phenomenon.
Similar but not quite what I mean:
The Hawthorne ...
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In the behaviorism it is argued that we learn behavior, but (how) does this influence our way of thinking?
I'm currently learning psychological approaches and social psychology, and this question popped into my head. The book on the approaches is: Glassman, W., Hadad, M. (20130116). Approaches to ...
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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Extinction Burst in Humans
I've recently been exposed to the term extinction burst and was wondering how it applies to adult humans and habit modification and behavior management.
All the research I've found focuses on ...
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Are there any theories which explain why people prefer popular vs. niche content?
So I'm analyzing social media data, and I've found that some people almost exclusively consume mostly the same few categories of content, whereas others consume a more diverse array of categories. It ...
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What is this condition where you imagine a string retracing your path in space and that you feel compelled to untangle?
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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Combining Discrete Choice Experiments with Theory of Planned Behavior
Topic background: How beliefs and personal values of a farmer influence his/her willingness to consider/adopt environmentally friendly innovations on-farm.
I want to assess if relative preferences for ...
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Do toddlers have to learn what they feel?
In Thomas Metzinger's book Being No One, he claimed at the start of section 6.3.3
Have you ever seen a child, who has just learned to walk, run toward a set of two or three stairs much too fast and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Can someone please help me find this ancedote / experiment?
I have a faint memory regarding an ancedote/experiment conducted for a certain psychological behavioral recognition.
My memory recalls:
It has something to do with a University experiment which ...
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Grieving for a loss of not experiencing an event
Sally never got married nor had children but sometimes imagines a 5-year daughter old talking to her. Sally never at any moment thinks the child is real and in such incidents griefs for being too old ...
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Method Acting Used For Cognitive Behavioral Modification
I was always fascinated by the stark contrast between the character played by Brad Pitt in True Romance (small role) and the character Rusty in Ocean's Eleven. Same person, completely different ...
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Which theories explain that given a choice of hard and easy tasks one would pick the easy one?
Which theories deal with cost benefit analysis? For example, given a binary choice of hard and easy tasks (eg. Picking low hanging fruit, stealing what is not bolted down, cheating on a test, taking a ...
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The explaination of definition of learning
In Robert Baron's book I found learning to be "any permanent change in behaviour or behavioural potential as a result of experiences. (Bandura,1986).But I got a question that what is meant by- ...
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Is there evidence to suggest that the different and contrasting behaviours we collectively call 'sensitive' have a common root cause?
There appear to be two different meanings of the word 'sensitive' when describing people's behaviour:
that the person being described lacks the emotional resilience to cope with an everyday situation....
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Is there a relationship between viewing and committing war crimes
Recently, I’ve been curious if there’s any relationship between someone committing war crimes and previously viewing them.
For example, the War in Afghanistan is considered asymmetrical warfare, where ...
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If the totality of human experience is not adequately encompassed with words, could the linguistic hypothesis be affirmatively debunked?
I once saw a book that really interested me in which the author analyzed how smoking itself as a concept appeared to be conceived of, from various angles, contexts, and perspectives, in modern society....
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Is there a psychological term for "inventing facts to anecdotally support a point"?
(Please edit my post if I didn't choose the right words. English is not my native language.)
Let's say I have this discussion on the internet. It's about old computer games. I write this:
It's not ...
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Why do we have romatic feelings?
People who are asexual feel little to no sexual attraction towards others, but they can have romantic relationships. From how sexual and romantic feelings are different, it has made me start to wonder ...
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