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How to get a psychology research assistant position?
I am a recent postgraduate student of social psychology and I have been trying to look for RA positions without much luck. My applications are getting rejected without any feedback and I am a little ...
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Lunar cycles linked with mental health issues?
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Anecdotally, my mother used to work in nursing homes for the elderly and found that around the full moon, patients slept less and were more agitated.
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How does twitter allow certain people to perform mass manipulation?
Recently we have seen many billionaires doing mass manipulation with the use of twitter.
Is there any line of research of the categories of manipulation these people are doing on twitter?
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Cognitive Function and Causing someone to Learn
Children may elicit, either through active engagement or some feature of their personality or appearance, a response from their environment that might protect them from deprivation-related risk either ...
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Does OCD play a major contribution in an individuals suffering from anorexia nervosa?
Although I have seen several studies that did substantiate low self esteem having a significant correlation with anorexia nervosa, but does OCD also play a major contribution in understanding the ...
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Which neurodevelopmental disorders constitute learning disabilities?
I am actually looking at DSM-5 but I cannot find any exhaustive or otherwise comprehensive list or explicit association of which neurodevelopmental disorders are also learning disabilities.
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Can you give an example of automatic appraisal process?
I was reading this slide provided by my prof. of Affective Neuroscience.
I've read that appraisal is considered a constitutive component of emotion by most of the actual theories.
Appraisal is defined ...
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Is detection of angry faces more efficient in humans?
Hansen and hansen proposed the anger superiority effect: threatening faces pop out of crowds, perhaps as a result of a preattentive, parallel search for signals of direct threat.
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Are there any methodological challenges to study real-time social interactions?
If the emotion of fear (for example) has evolved so that humans can react in an adapted way to danger, why would we be afraid in a laboratory setting, and would this fear be similar to that we ...
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Any research on brain's processes involved in evil actions? [closed]
I'm reading Zimbardo's The lucifer effect: understanding how good people turn to evil in which he describes the famous Stanford prison experiment
that investigated the psychological effects of ...
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Which long-term effects can hypocortisolism have on behavior?
Chronic stress can have a serious impact on our physical as well as psychological health due to sustained high levels of the chemicals released in the ‘fight or flight’ response.
In abused children ...
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Is there any study about the impact on the continuous use of predictive keyboard by neurologically and psychologically health individuals?
As there is evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks, I'd like to know if any study has been made regarding predictive keyboards.
Given the popularity of predictive ...
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Is the brain inherently social?
The concept of the "social brain" is thrown around a lot, but it's not entirely clear to me what it means.
To me, it could mean a few different things:
Modularity: We have some sort of modular, ...
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Neurological basis of selfishness?
Is there a neurological component to selfishness?
Awhile back, I witnessed a mentally retarded person who was severely possessive of a water fountain, claiming it was "his".
I've also seen ...
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How does an understanding of the brain explain why people experience strong emotional responses to major sporting events?
Anyone know studies or theories that explain how massive competition events between countries or parties, like the Soccer World Cup Tournament finals or Olympic Games affect our brains?
Why do people ...
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