One of the great mysteries is why people are often their own worst enemies. It's always confused me and it's at the heart of religion as well. I consider myself an optimist about humanity.
"Once informed of a confession, an eyewitness is forever tainted."
The research shows that when the game plays out, a “good” male will participate longer than a “bad” male, allowing the female to weed out a suitable mate: the longer they hang around, the more likely it is that the male will be “good”. [...] What this research provides is a possible explanation for the evolution of lengthy courtships in many species, including humans.
American psychologists will not get involved in torture. Ha2aw!
Zen meditation can help bring persons to not thinking about anything quicker than control. Better than pink elephants? Also evidence that an experience/activity like meditation has neuropsychiatric effect.
research about free will
the distinct subjective perceptual quality which makes some items in the world stand out from their neighbours and immediately grab our attention.
When your friends are your references.
How do we attach meaning to other's behaviour, or our own? For example, is someone angry because they are bad-tempered or because something bad happened?
No original sin? what about children seeing a crucified Christ? or TV violence? read bobo doll experiment.
much of the behavior in our experiments is consistent with a desire to pursue self-interest, while maintaining the illusion of behaving fairly.
individuals have some negative utility associated with being seen as greedy, and are avoiding this judgment by the experimenter.
The number 1 portal for psychiatry in Arab world. A web 0.1 style site that is hard to navigate .. note to self regularly check the agenda
a complete open source wiki book
This page contains several tests of Traumatic Stress & Secondary Traumatic Stress. These tests may be printed and used for clinical and research purposes.
book about corrective interrogation techniques
very interesting.
I think distraction is more effective than trying to stop thoughts. Anyways read this.
the guy who can't forget.. contrast with Henry M.
a famous Soviet neuro-psychologist and developmental psychologist. the guy behind the Luria-Nebraska
An action performed by individual A and affecting individual B is said to be altruistic if it increases the fitness — the reproductive success — of the recipient B, and decreases the fitness of A.
a phenomenon of visual perception, attributed to adaptation of neurons in the visual system
Motion Induced Blindness
Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath Vs. risk factors of suicide .. a sort of post humus case study/analysis.
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