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What tag for studies of beauty, aesthetics, etc.?
We've had a fair few questions about perception of beauty or aesthetic judgements?
Why do we prefer visually aligned objects?
Is Golden Ratio's association with perceived beauty a myth?
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Should we have a 'popular-psychology' tag?
We get a fair few questions from people about what is often called 'popular psychology'. E.g., questions about the MBTI, some questions grounded in self-help books, or other popular psychology books.
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Should we break up the "memory" tag?
We currently have one tag for all things memory.
Do we want to keep it this way, or do we want to break this tag up into multiple tags, E.G. short-term-memory and long-term-memory? If so, what ...
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Should the tag "subconscious" be renamed to "unconscious"?
If I am not mistaken, the term "subconscious" is related to psychoanalysis and is usually avoided in academic psychology. Instead the term "unconscious" is used to describe phenomena happening without ...
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What is the meaning of the tag "attribution" and should it be renamed?
I just spotted the tag "attribution" and I think that its usage is not very fortnunate: https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/attribution.
In psychology, the term attribution is closely ...
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Should we have tags for specific disorders / conditions, or keep tags more general?
I asked a question about a specific condition, and on chat my choice of tags was brought up by Artem Kaznatcheev:
I don't think we need a whole new tag for 'prosopagnosia'
It is a single ...
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Do we need the [psychology] tag?
We have the psychology tag right now. However, it mostly seems to be a placeholder tag for questions that the asker wasn't sure how to tag. I don't really understand why we would need this tag, since ...
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Age or Aging tag?
We have age and aging, of the two Aging specifically refers to the process while Age seems less helpful.
Do we want to merge one into the other or keep both and why?
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What is the difference between [cognitive-psychology] and [cognition]?
Our most popular tag (24 questions) is cognitive-psychology which seems to be applied pretty widely. We also, have a relatively popular (7 questions) cognition tag. However, I don't understand the ...
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Brain injury related tags
I asked a question in regards to Hemispatial Neglect, an acquired brain injury. I noticed we don't have any related tags yet as best I could tell.
Should these be generically tagged as brain-injury ...
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The proliferation of meta-research tags
I have looked through our tags, and have found the following list of tags that seem to be (at least in part) about doing research in cogsci:
experiments - 5 questions
reproducible-research - 4 ...
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NLP tag "dispute" resolution
Recently, two questions were tagged nlp for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Today, there was a question asked about natural language processing, and the user assigned the nlp tag as well.
In a brief ...
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Should we have a specific tag for questions that ask about the name of a study? And if so, what?
We had a question:
Study on commitment and follow-through
The essential features:
the OP wants to know the name or reference to a study
the OP knows that the study exists and has some details about ...
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The neuroscience and neurobiology tags
The neuroscience tag was recently introduced in this question. We already have a neurobiology tag that is actively used. However, most of those questions could/hold be tagged neuroscience. In fact, ...
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Do we need a too-easy or too-basic tag?
We have three questions on meta specifically related to the minimum required complexity of a questions.
What's "Too basic" or "General reference" for this site? Uses scope
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