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For questions regarding use of the scientific method to study mental-processes that perform typically and beneficially, e.g., topics like states of pleasure or flow, values, strengths, virtues, talent…
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For questions about the ability for humans or animals to control their level of attention to a stimulus.
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An autism spectrum disorder characterized by by significant difficulties in social interaction, alongside restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests, but a relative preservation of o…
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For questions relating to cognitive development; the study of acquiring information processing abilities, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language, and other aspects of brain development and c…
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For questions about the neurotransmitter serotonin's role in behavior and cognition.
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For questions relating to the study of social cognition; the encoding, storage, retrieval, and processing, of information relating to social situations; the neurological basis of social cognition and …
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For practical questions about performing neuroscience experiments.
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For questions regarding the psychological basis of this disease featuring periodic bouts of mania and depression, its treatment, and pharmacological treatments for the condition
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For questions regarding the study and design of the interface through which humans interact with computers through software, a discipline which draws upon knowledge from computer science and the cogni…
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For questions about taking advantage of humans' psychological predisposition to engage in gaming and uses game design techniques, game thinking and game mechanics to enhance non-game contexts.
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For questions about the psychological principles behind writing, its mechanics, learning writing, and improving the process.
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For questions about changes with time in cognition, perception, and emotion in adults.
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For questions about hunger, eating, food preferences, effects of food, and related phenomena.
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For questions regarding love, the feeling thereof, the capacity to, or lack thereof. Love as a motivation, the need to love, loving another person, an animal, an inanimate object, a concept, or ideal.…
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For questions on the value placed on certain sensory stimuli, usually those of art, beauty, and taste.
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For questions on the debate between innate or genetic factors (nature) versus environmental factors (nurture) in the cognitive sciences.
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An interdisciplinary academic field dedicated to understanding political science, politicians and political behavior through the use of psychological theories.
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For questions about people's positive, negative, or ambivalent assessments of different objects or cultural constructs.
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For questions on traumatic or congenital injury to the central nervous system.
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For questions relating to affect and its relation to cognition and behavior, the neurological basis of empathy, atypical empathetic responses due to psychopathology, and the role of empathy in psychot…
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The Neural Engineering Framework is a framework mapping functions, dynamics and learning onto neurons, allowing for testing and creating of large-scale, biologically-plausible models.
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Preference is the comparison of alternatives based on the value (or utility) which a decision-maker assigns to them.
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For questions about the scientific study of the nature, extent, management, causes, control, consequences, and prevention of criminal behavior, both on the individual and social levels. Criminology is…
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For questions about how to effectively learn, study and teach about the cognitive sciences.
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For questions about learning improved skills of perception from simple sensory discrimination to complex categorizations of spatial and temporal patterns relevant to real-world expertise.
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An approach to cognitive science that models mental/behavioral phenomena as an emergent process of interconnected networks of simple units.
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Examining helping behavior, motivations and payoffs; related to altruism.
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For questions regarding the relationship of features to one side of the body or the other, e.g., handedness
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The psychic break from reality. The inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy; fantasy being the construct of distorted perception, thought and/or hallucinations.
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For questions about ethical issues in clinical practice and the conduct of research. For questions about the psychology of moral reasoning use moral-psychology tag
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The process of determining the cause of an illness and check for related complications.
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