For questions where the author needs to know specific articles/surveys/books on a given topic.
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Difference between voting patterns in men and women
I'm looking for recommended reading on difference in voting patterns between men and women - both empirical data and theoretical explanations. In particular, have any significant biases (in terms of ...
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What science or psychology is behind the Landmark Forum's coursework?
The Landmark Forum is a self-help seminar focusing on helping individuals to make positive changes in their lives by chaing their point of view and using logic to break down emotions to change the way ...
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Accuracy of social judgements of observers watching business meetings
I'm very interested in how people size one another up in social situations and in particular what we key in on when we are making these judgements.
Let's make an imaginary experiment.
I make ...
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Rated model of driving-related processes and objects
The SEEV-Model for predicting the distribution of visual attention contains a parameter called 'value' which represents the importance of a certain area of the field of view concerning a given task ...
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Reproducible meta-analysis in psychology
I am a big proponent of reproducible data analysis. In particular, I like when researchers share documents in formats like Sweave and knitr which weave statistical output (e.g., text, tables, and ...
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How to measure student activity, participation, tendency to ask questions, etc?
We would like to compare students from different education systems on the following variables:
tendency to actively participate on lessons
tendency to ask questions
tendency and experience in ...
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What processes underly confidence ratings in cognitive decision-making?
Many experiments in cognitive psychology and other domains ask for confidence ratings (e.g., on a 0-100 scale, 100 meaning "I'm sure I experienced this stimulus"). What accounts describe how these ...
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What is a good book for studying incentives?
I am looking for a book, which gives a broad overview of all the main theories regarding incentives. Using this book, I would like to further my understanding of things like:
Why slot machines ...
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What is a source of case studies of personality disorders?
What is a good source for case studies on a broad range of personality disorders?
I'm a writer and I'm interested in reading some case studies for character work. I've found some websites with ...
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Are there professional cognitive science test subjects?
I'm interested in how cognitive science experiments are designed and executed. Up until now, all of the papers I've seen dealing with cognition use availability of test subjects as one of the major ...
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How can motivation be increased by improving brain chemistry with nutrition and activities?
I'm reading some material about motivation and brain chemistry.
One of the interesting articles is "7 Ways to Increase Motivation by Improving your Brain Chemistry". I'm interested in a more ...
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What is a good textbook for an undergrad Cognitive Neuroscience course?
I am slated to teach an undergrad Cognitive Neuroscience course next year and I am not sure which textbook to use. This would be an entry-level course (no pre-requisites) primarily intended for ...
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What are the “Must Know” papers of Cognitive Science? [closed]
What are the works/papers/results/theories any expert in cognitive science should know, even if they're outside his/her specific field of expertise?
One paper/theory per answer please, and state why ...
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What article reported variability in supporting hypotheses across disciplines?
I recently read a blog post talking about a journal article that compared the degree to which journal articles support their hypothesis. A comparison was done across disciplines, and if I recall, ...
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How to obtain Fritz Perls' Eye Witness to Therapy film?
I am reading Fritz Perls' book called "Eye Witness to Therapy" which contains film transcipts that Perls thought would be useful to learn Gestalt therapy.
For me it is a very deep and interesting ...
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What is the relative effectiveness of self initiated versus therapy approaches to repairing damaged body schema?
Several studies discuss the damaged body schema of amputees and people suffering from CRPS.
By damaged body schema I mean where the body their mind constructs doesn't match up with the body that is ...
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Are there any cutting edge techniques that enable to acquire foreign language at relatively fast pace?
I am aware of immersion method as well as mnemonics such as the one Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day. I read that Kim Peek's lack of corpus callosum enabled his brain to absorb information faster ...
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How much information on the “Identical Strangers” experiment was actually released?
I am in the process of researching the Nature vs. Nurture debate.
While I was searching for articles on it, I discovered something known as the "Identical Strangers" experiment (that probably was ...
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Meditation for patients with neuroleptic induced tension
Patients taking antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs often suffer from some kind of discomfort or tension. This can manifest as a neuroleptic induced dysphoria, akathisia, or some kind of anxiety.
Is ...
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What is the study with the dual-task experiment that involved a colour-wheel change detection task?
This may be a long-shot, but I'm looking for a paper that I vaguely remember reading a few years ago. Unfortunately I can't remember many details about the paper or its content, and thus my multiple ...
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Physiological differences between brains of Conservatives and Liberals
I work for a non-profit research organization and I have been assigned to do research on this topic. I have been doing my best to find studies on this topic but every website and article seems to ...
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Psychometric information on IPIP representation of NEO facets
The IPIP (International Personality Item Pool) website provides a copy of the IPIP representation of the NEO 30 facet form.
It also provides some information comparing IPIP NEO with official NEO.
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How to change the brain in order to change how one habitually thinks and feels? [closed]
In this snippet from "You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life" by Jeffrey Schwartz
Schwartz states that ...
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Comprehensive encyclopedia of nootropics for medical researchers and practitioners
Is there a clinically-researched and tested encyclopedia (or similar resource) covering all available nootropics currently known?
The Wikipedia article was a helpful first stop; but I'm searching for ...
