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Online communities for discussing shame
I'm undergoing therapy with a psychologist, and one of the biggest issues that we're dealing with is the feeling of shame.
I'm researching the topic of shame, and I'd really like to find an internet ...
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36 views
How are activities involving toy blocks linked the development of intelligence in children?
I'm looking for a peer reviewed article that links the development of intelligence to any form of block building activities.
For example a child playing with wooden blocks can improve their ...
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Are there neurological conditions that can be worsened by B group vitamins?
I know that vitamins B6 and B12 are very important for the brain function, and both are involved in metabolism of homocysteine. Buildup of homocysteine has been associated with cognitive impairment. ...
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1answer
51 views
Psychometric scale with items in sets where responses imply a rank order of items
My question is related to psychometry. One survey is measured in this way:
...
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27 views
How can schemas be applied to website design?
If a "schema is a cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information. Schemas can be useful because they allow us to take shortcuts in interpreting the vast amount of ...
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49 views
Name of the bias where someone really needs something after they find out it exists
I'm looking for the name of the cognitive bias that is expressed in the following story.
A fellow coworker was instrumental in getting a 75 gallon fish tank installed in the lobby of the company that ...
12
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1answer
142 views
Does the relationship between positive mood and motivation for sex differ between males and females?
Background:
I recently heard the saying from a doctor: "men are motivated to have sex when they want to feel good and women are motivated to have sex when they already feel good".
(In a side note, ...
4
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0answers
37 views
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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1answer
116 views
What are the benefits of transformational over transactional leadership?
Transformational leadership is sometimes recommended as a way of motivating and inspiring followers in contrast to more transactional styles of leadership.
There is a large pop-psych literature on ...
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3answers
98 views
Are older people more likely to be politically conservative and why?
J.Campbell suggest that the difference between age groups on being politically conservative is small. But F.Glamsers article concludes:
there was a significant positive correlation between age ...
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2answers
417 views
Effect of words highlighting on reading comprehension
I'm interested if there are studies dealing with text understanding and POS (part of speech) coloring, or coloring syntactic/semantic information. The studies should solve the questions like:
Which ...
6
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1answer
107 views
Do eyes accommodate to color?
I've heard that our eyes accommodate between colors too far from each other in the visible spectrum. I imagine it's not a true focal point accommodation, but rather linked with how brain processes the ...
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neurofeedback machine [closed]
I would like to know if there is in the market and AFFORDABLE neurofeedback machine for the home user. I have seen adverts for hospitals and clinics, but nothing for the home that is affordable. I ...
6
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1answer
58 views
Self-fulfilling stereotypes: Have researchers tried inventing new group stereotypes?
Studies on the stereotype threat have typically used stereotypes that that are common in contemporary culture, i.e. the canonical example being the study that showed African American SAT scores ...
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2answers
117 views
Do measures of Big 5 personality have a positive bias towards extraverted, conscientious, emotionally stable, ageeable and open individuals?
Background:
One free measures of the Big 5 is the IPIP.
I have noticed that IPIP items seem to have a positive bias towards items loading on the extraversion (EX), emotional stability (ES), ...
6
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0answers
92 views
How long should I work before taking a break?
I'd like to work as effectively as possible for 8-9 hours a day, whether at work or studying.
At some point in completing my major in psych I remember hearing about the importance of taking breaks ...
3
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1answer
58 views
Why do our senses evoke different subjective experiences
I'm wondering why there are different subjective experiences when our sensor systems are technically the same neurons that just get excited by different stuff (photons, soundwaves, ...).
So why does ...
4
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1answer
47 views
Why different responses to target and distractor in three-stimulus oddball procedure?
In the three-stimulus oddball procedure, there is an infrequent target in a background of frequently occurring standard stimuli and infrequently occurring distracter stimuli. My question is, since the ...
3
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1answer
29 views
Is there any (free) program that allows the recording of text input and the speed of input?
I am planning to run a study where participants will been shown questions on a computer monitor and their task is to type their responses in a text box as quickly as they can. Their input and input ...
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1answer
120 views
How to measure dominance and submissiveness?
Introduction
Interpersonal dimensions of personality (Sullivan, 1953) have been described in a circular model, the interpersonal circumplex, since Leary (1957). The two dimensions that define this ...
4
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1answer
41 views
Are there any free databases of audio-visual emotional stimuli (English)?
I am particularly interested in naturalistic and induced emotional content. I have found the SAVEE, the HUMAINE and the SEMAINE databases. I have read through the Terms for LDC (UPenn) and it seems ...
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6answers
3k views
How is it that taking a break from a problem sometimes allows you to figure out the answer?
As a computer programmer, I have noticed an interesting phenomenon: If I am stuck on a particular problem in my work, often if I stop thinking about the problem and do something else, the answer will ...
7
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0answers
59 views
Are there any models of the human visual field of view taking into account head, neck and eye movements and calculating likelihood of fixation?
I would like to know if there are studies that (1) model the field of view taking into account all degrees of freedom of the head, neck and eyes and (2) if there is any probabilistic model assigned to ...
3
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0answers
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What kinds of long - term cognition/motivation tracking tools are there?
I'm aware that there are dozens of personal "activity trackers"/ pedometers like fitbit that are aimed for mass consumer and can log activity over extended periods of time. Are there equivalent ...
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3answers
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How to temporarily induce low latent inhibition?
As the Wikipedia article says,
High levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine (or its agonists) in the ventral tegmental area of the brain have been shown to decrease latent inhibition. Certain ...
2
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2answers
53 views
How to analyse 3 by 3 design with Likert scale ratings?
I want to understand what would be the best way to analyze the results of an online likert-scale ratings of pictures on 3 dimensions. I have 3 groups of participants from different countries. They are ...
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Whats a effective color for a TO-DO board? [migrated]
Different colors have different effects on our moods and behaviors. So, for a TO-DO board that is in line of sight of your workspace, what would be an effective color?
Some supporting ...
9
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3answers
126 views
Is there any recent work on modeling how we rapidly acquire new knowledge?
I work with neural network models of human cognition a lot, and one thing that bugs me about them is the timescale: they learn over thousands of trials whereas humans seem to learn after a couple ...
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0answers
43 views
Exercises to improve focus over exteneded periods of time [closed]
What are some good mental/physical exercises I can do to able to stay focussed on work for an extended period of time?
The area I am trying to improve on in getting my work done faster than I do ...
5
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1answer
147 views
What are the effects of social rejection on the brain?
What are the effects of social rejection on the brain?
If the external circumstance can not change, how can the impact on the brain be reduced?
What is the average sensitivity to social rejection ...
4
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1answer
35 views
When rating, is it better to set the expected goal in the middle with hard to reach upper bounds or higher with desired outcomes at the upper bounds?
The actual implementation that I'm interested in is a set of five scores from 1-5 (whole numbers) that are averaged together to compute an overall score (decimal values). However, I prefer to look at ...
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2answers
70 views
Does not practicing the brain erode its power? [closed]
Does not practicing the brain erode its power? If so, are perpetual brain exercises recommended to prevent (or increase) its power (chess, puzzles, etc)?
4
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3answers
103 views
Are there any cognitive models for visual navigation?
I've seen a few neuroscience accounts of visual navigation and many A.I. projects, but no psychologically plausible accounts that actually solve the computational problem (i.e. produce a working ...
3
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0answers
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How do SSRIs work?
I've found a reasonable explanation on Wikipedia...
SSRIs are believed to increase the extracellular level of the neurotransmitter serotonin by inhibiting its reuptake into the presynaptic cell, ...
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1answer
70 views
How does personality moderate or mediate the relationship between stress and burnout?
My research is on work related stress and burnout amongst healthcare professionals and the role that personality play in either reducing or increasing levels of stress and burnout. I'm using the big ...
2
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1answer
41 views
How do you run a risk / gambling experiment using Qualtrics or Amazon Turk?
I want to run a simple probability matching gambling experiment:
Each round has the participant pick Up or Down. The computer picks Up with a probability (p=0.7). If the participant gets it correct, ...
3
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1answer
74 views
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 ...
4
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0answers
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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 ...
1
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1answer
30 views
What is the linguistic equivalent of functional fixedness?
Recently, I saw a crossword clue: (5 letters) "They help you after a crash." After going through the list of EMTs, firemen, police officers, etc. I realized that the answer was "IT Guy." This seems to ...
5
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0answers
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Aesthetic preference for even or odd numbers
In my experience most people prefer the appearance of even numbers or numbers divisible by 5.
Is there any research which proves or disproves my theory?
Is it all about symmetry?
I expect that ...
5
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0answers
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Does dream recall interfere with “reverse learning”? (Crick and Mitchison's theory of REM sleep)
I've recently became aware of the idea of "reverse learning" that might happen during REM sleep - the brain's attempt to eliminate pathological attractors that might appear in neural networks. The ...
2
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1answer
66 views
Any studies on lack of imagination and creativity?
Is there a formal scientific term for this type of personality?:
Main priorities are: family, phsyical and financial protection of the family and self. (Little to no creativity. Strong desire to ...
4
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1answer
91 views
When can anchoring backfire?
Anchoring is a well-known phenomenon [1]. However, I just ran an experiment where the effect seemingly backfired. Basically, I asked people to estimate the number of jelly beans in a jar. In my anchor ...
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0answers
34 views
What happens to a person's frontal lobes when they have a breakdown from stress?
When a person gets really stressed out and has a mental breakdown what happens to their frontal lobes?
I'm reminded of the clip from "What about Bob?" when Richard Dreyfuss has a breakdown when he ...
10
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1answer
335 views
How is intelligence correlated to beauty?
Recently, I read up several interesting questions on the web about the relationship between IQ and general intelligence and physiological symmetry. But more importantly, what explains the correlation? ...
2
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3answers
76 views
Lexical Decision (Web-)App
I want to make a lexical decision experiment, is there any freely available software for this? A Javascript-based webapp would suit me best, as it would run in the browser without the need to install ...
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1answer
54 views
How to interpret HLM analyses looking at work group and individual worker effects?
Liden et al (2004, PDF) is an example of a study examining employees in work groups in an organisation. Thus, measures are obtained of both individual workers and of the work groups that they belong ...
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2answers
361 views
Why is Asperger Syndrome poorly recognised in France?
Asperger Syndrome is quite well-known in psychiatric circles, as well as (to a lesser degree) the general public, in many countries the western world. However, in France, Asperger Syndrome is ...
12
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2answers
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Is it called something when I can't remember the word I want to say, but I can remember its first letter?
This happens to me frequently. I'll say, "Oh you know that guy... uhh... I can't remember his name. But he starts with a 'Z'." You can remember part of the word but not the whole word.
Is there a ...
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2answers
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Is there evidence that listening to music can aid/hinder concentration or performance?
I, like many computer programmers, love to listen to music while I work. I have always believed that music helps me stay focused and motivated, and improves my performance on many types of tasks, ...
