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What is the difference between confidence and overconfidence?
People say there is a very small difference between confidence and overconfidence.
How can knowledge of psychology help someone know whether they are are confident or overconfident?
What is the ...
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The feeling a person gets when they finish a series
Take for example, a person reading a good book series that they enjoy. While they are reading it, they typically look forward to finishing each volume, as well as the whole series. However, when they ...
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Encoding of abstract concepts in memory
When you read a book and you want to remember it you can encode the information into mental pictures with associations. This is a technique for remembering the content.
The problem is when you ...
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How do I change my tiredness patterns?
All of you probably know what the human 'circadian cycle' is, and depending on your personality, you would either be a night-owl or a morning-lark.
I am interested in understanding the patterns of ...
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What is the conceptual relationship between higher order thinking and inductive reasoning?
Higher order thinking seems like a larger construct than inductive reasoning but the constructs also seem related.
What is the connection between inductive reasoning and higher order thinking?
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How do graphic objects in data visualisation facilitate ease of interpretation?
Background: I vaguely remember reading in a book (I think it may have been Nudge - Thaler and Sunstein) about the advantages of using graphics for visualising data, such as a smiley face, or traffic ...
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What do within-subjects studies of job applicant personality test faking say about the covariance between developmental and job applicant scores?
Some studies of faking personality tests in selection and recruitment have used a within-subject design. These studies involve administering a personality test in two conditions. One condition is ...
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Predicting the landing site of a saccade while the saccade is still in progress
A brief look through the literature didn't reveal any algorithms that have been directly applied to the online prediction of saccade landing sites while a saccade is in progress.
While there would ...
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How to conduct surveys using facebook
More and more often I read in papers, that an online survey has been conducted through Facebook. What I have yet to understand is how this can best be done.
I understand that Facebook allows the ...
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What Quantified Self reserach tools are there for measuring performance while playing videogames?
I've recently became aware that there's a whole field of quantified self - using various methodology to collect data about human performance in an attempt to "quantify" how the human body/brain works. ...
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Does the subjective experience of artificial light brightness vary for people, if so, by how much?
I'm thinking about human perception and particularly the experience of how bright artificial light is. I'm talking about dusk, when the sun has set and only street lamps and light reflecting off ...
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Predicting the Duration of Future Events
I am interested in the question of how people use/integrate previous experiences with instances of tasks or events to make predictions about the duration of future instances of tasks/events.
To ...
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Inducing Auditory-to-Visual Synesthesia
I recently watched an interesting video that was discussing conveying color to the blind through language. It implied that there may be a way to insert the sensation of color into a person's mind via ...
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How do the correlations between Big 5 personality change in studies examining “faking bad”?
I have conducted several studies that get participants to complete the IPIP personality test while role play going for a job. A common finding is that the average correlation (i.e., $\bar{r}$ between ...
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How much information does the somatosensory system produce?
Are there any approximations of how many bits of information human somatosensory system produces? Especially mechano-receptors as measured in average number of bits per area of skin per second?
I've ...
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What is the upper bound on rate of learning in young adults?
I was wondering how a normal adult in their 20s could best structure their life to make best use of their capacity to learn. (I am no expert in cognitive science, so I assume just a really common ...
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Is the eye direction language dependent on the direction of writing?
I've read from various sources about the eye direction language. What is of my special interest now, is:
looking right means thinking (about future, new ideas etc.)
looking left means remembering ...
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What are the most well-understood vocal animal languages?
There are many examples of animal language that involve vocal pattens or "grammar".
For example, there is the the Bee dance, bird songs, whale songs, dogs.
Bird vocalization includes both bird calls ...
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How do humans perceive height or vertical drop?
I'm looking at this video: Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are, which discusses neurons within the brain that help people remember where stuff is in relation to other objects.
I'm ...
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Why do we seem to have an internal drive to use different expressions(mostly when writing)?
How come we have so many words/phrases that share the same meaning?
I suppose the most obvious answer to this would be that through communication between people with accent/language A and B, new ...
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Evidence that qualia are not the same as physical processes?
With regards to the answer posted by @sandygautman in the question Do feelings have a purpose:
Let me first state that I don't have a problem with either the question nor the answer; I'm only looking ...
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In what ways can someone increase their brain function while reading
On Facebook, someone posed the following question:
In what ways can someone increase brain function while reading? I like to read but have problems retaining information. Sometimes I get a ...
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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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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Limitations
In treating people with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy:
Which people can't be helped by therapy?
How are some people more treatable than others?
Additional Info
In the comments of a blog post ...
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Kelly Criterion Observed to Be Adhered by Psychopaths?
As this study shows, psychopaths will take advantage of a positive expected value gamble (is there one to counterfact this showing that they'll also accept negative expected value gambles?) regardless ...
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Causal reasoning(implicit models?) vs grammar of native language
I was reading about linguistic relativity and it struck me that there could also be differences in multilingual individuals and mono/bi-lingual individuals on how they derive/reason/create structure ...
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Memorizing sets of items
It is often useful to memorize a set of items. Many times ordering is not important and we need to memorize a lot of sets. I already know a method for
memorizing lists where we memorize an item for ...
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Does the person's walking say anything about the person's cognition?
This afternoon I've been observing people at a local park and came up with some observations that lead me to this question:
Can the person's gait (manner of walking) say something about the person's ...
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How effective are high audio frequencies in commercials in getting audience attention?
Does anyone know of a peer reviewed article that describes how commercials will often contain high audio frequencies in order to attract the viewer's attention?
Referrals to commercials using any ...
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Is happiness a result of cognitive or a side effect of neurobiological processes? [closed]
This morning I've heard this talk on Ted.com:
Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment
The presenter is discussing an iPhone app used to track happiness, and seems to draw a ...
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Is Decision Making/Theory/Analysis applicable to game design?
I've done research over the last year in game design by reading some of the most well-known books in the field. Making interesting decisions is one of the fundamental elements of fun in games. I'm ...
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Does Cognitive Tunneling apply to daydreaming as well?
I've been reading a paper by Jarmasz J. (2005) on cognitive tunneling and am wondering if it applies to daydreaming?
For instance, if for some reason I'm already thinking about something that has no ...
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What explains habitual or even occasional incidences of self-talk?
What are the scientific reasons behind someone talking with him/herself? Is it a disorder of some kind? By "talking" I also mean writing to self.
By self-talk I mean a person (P) is talking with ...
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classic category learning tasks with data
I need a list of classic categorization tasks (with available human/animal data) to use as a benchmark for a model.
I am interested in tasks that can be used to validate/invalidate a model of ...
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How does a researcher typically go about conducting a survey-based psychological experiment?
What is a typical approach to conducting a survey-based psychological experiment?
There seems to be a host of issues involved; some that seem particularly important are:
the appropriate design of ...
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Does the ability to manipulate your environment affect the type of intelligence?
There are several animals on earth that show certain kinds of intelligence. Some animals have extensions to manipulate their environment and some do not. Think of humans and squids (hand/extension ...
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Do paraphilias have symptoms other than a sexual attraction? [closed]
Is a paraphilia simply an atypical sexual attraction, or is there more to it?
It was my understanding that a paraphilia will tend to have at least some of the following characteristics:
Developed ...
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What is the relationship between computer game performance and measures of ability? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Any work being done on Perception, Action, and/or Cognition in Video games?
What is the relationship between computer game performance and measures of ability?
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How effective is the NLP Reverse Movie Technique in dealing with traumatic experiences?
The Reverse Movie Technique (also konwn as The NLP Fast Phobia/Trauma Cure) is named as such because it involves playing a traumatic event backwards through your head.
Is the technique effective at ...
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Are end-stage Alzheimer's patients still conscious? [closed]
I asked the same question at Reddit here, but none of the responses were convincing.
So here's the thing: to the extent of what we know about consciousness, are end-stage Alzheimer's patients still ...
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What is the definition of sanity? How can I prove someone either sane or insane?
In my experience the definition of insanity is thus:
Insanity: The state of being seriously mentally ill, mad, and/or irrational.
Is there a proper scientific definition of this term? While ...
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Is there a field of research based around music and emotion in the brain?
I'm looking for research surrounding the scientific study of music and emotion and its effects on the brain. In particular, are there known parts of the brain which activate when playing or listening ...
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Is this optical illusion the visual equivalent of binaural beats?
The optical motional illusion shown below, makes your brain see some motion, where there is none.
In my opinion it's fascinating, although after a while you get a headache. It reminds me of ...
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Are there known cases where people can write upside down? [closed]
From the time I was able to write I have been writing upside down, as in literally turning the page 180 degrees and writing. The funny thing is, I can't write the right way up! I am left handed which ...
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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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What is Asperger's Syndrome? [closed]
I have read through the Wikipedia article on and looked at the diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome (AS) and am still not sure how it is connected with autism. It seems like compared with autism it is ...
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What is the scientific term or concept for inner thought control? [closed]
Usually when a thought arises, it seems that we quickly scurry after it, unconsciously getting caught up with whatever everyday thoughts come up. These can be invoked internally or externally.
(No ...
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Training for the Corpus Callosum?
Since reading is done in the left hemisphere of the brain, does reading text in the left visual field train the corpus callosum? For instance, I am interested in knowing whether training may lead to ...
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How does knowledge about a subject aid in its recall?
I've experienced it many times with my students and also with myself. Let me illustrate with example:
When I'm teaching, I say something like this:
Gastrointenstinal Track has following sections
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Neural basis of primitive reflexes [closed]
The Wikipedia article on primitive reflexes states that they originate in the CNS. So far, I haven't been able to find precisely where in the CNS any of these reflexes originate. Here's the list of ...
