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How do defenders of the paradox of choice explain people voluntarily playing strategy games?
There has been a recent attempt in behavioral economics/psychology to modify the neoclassical economic assumption that decision makers' utility depends on only the content of outcomes with ...
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Where can I find all the items on the SCTi-MAP?
I want to conduct the test with my friends and gain some insight into psychological analysis, but I can’t find the full list anywhere.
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Taboos related to human condition
It seems that us humans have built a lot of taboos surrounding questions involving our own condition.
For instance, the history of medicine is marked by conflicts between the willingness of scientists ...
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Relationship schemata caused in childhood - better term for this, and can they be grouped?
I listen to a podcast (by Stefanie Stahl, in German), where a psychologist tries to explain the problems adult guests describe to her. She often finds reasons for their problems in the guests ...
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Why do certain individuals struggle to memorize song lyrics?
Some people have a hard time memorizing song lyrics, even after repeated listening.
What individual factors contribute to the difficulty in remembering song lyrics?
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Is there such a thing as "emotional impedance"?
More specifically, what I would call emotional reactance. What this is would be the emotional equivalent of electrical reactance(which is the opposition to changes in voltage and current flow). So a ...
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Is there a specific name for a delusional belief that you're your own duplicate?
I was watching a film where something like this was the twist ending and it got me thinking, "If somebody believes that they're an impostor of themself is there a name for that and if there is ...
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Validity of CliftonStrengths
Trying to find information about the validity of CliftonStrengths.
For a commercial, restricted test (which perhaps is not classified as test by the owner) it can be hard to find independent ...
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Is there any study in the science about these true stories of babies? [closed]
For babies from several-month old to 4-year old, most of them get their parents frustrated(e.g. most babies often cry). But I heard of true stories of several babies. These true stories have the ...
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Can the items of UCLA Loneliness Scale not be called symptoms?
When did the question raise?
I am working on the data of 8 itemed UCLA Loneliness (ULS-8) [1] and 9 itemed PHQ [2] (PHQ-9) scales. I found that in the study of PHQ-9 [2], the authors mentioned the 9 ...
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Is there a link between Imposter Phenomenon and dreams of unfulfilled ambitions?
Imposter Syndrome is a popular topic in both scientific studies and pop-psychology articles. Less common is Imposter Phenomenon, wherein an attempt is made to be more conscientious about the subject. ...
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How to prepare yours for daily risky routine like flying planes?
Obviously you need certain personal traits to be a pilot or a surgeon. But if you make a mistake someone dies, you might be included. So I think there have to be studies on how to prepare before you ...
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Term for someone that makes themselves sad to pass it onto others?
Is there a term for somebody that will purposely make themselves feel sad, and perhaps other negative feelings, with the intention of making another person feel them too?
This would be a way of ...
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Why is it so hard to forget an information represented in a procedural memory
It is relatively easy to forget an information in declarative memory but its hard to forget behavioural habits such as driving car, cycling etc. These memories are both long-term memory but why is it ...
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Alternative metrics to assess test validity/reliability
I have two versions of calculating a score for a test (which assesses how well they perform a task). One takes into account the difficulty of the items, the other does not. These tests are ...
