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Have the core CBT "Thinking Errors" been found to NOT be effective in evidence-based clinical practice?
This is his chart of the ten "thinking errors." It's taken from The Feeling Good Handbook.
Table 3–1. Definitions of Cognitive Distortions
ALL-OR-NOTHING THINKING: You see things in black-and-white categories. If your performance falls short of…
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Does straightening your back increase confidence?
Background: I have always felt moderately socially insecure. Today I noticed that when I straighten my back from its normal crestfallen position, I feel a little more confident, and as if I were in attack mode.
Is there any relationship between…
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If people did not have to work, what would motivate them to work?
In industrialized countries around the world, "work" appears to be something that most people try to avoid as much as they can, dreaming of winning a lottery so they will never have to work again -- and be free to do nothing or do what they like.…
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What effect do random visitors have on children in orphanages and people in old age homes?
Leading a volunteering team, I've been to an orphanage where the sister (who did a psychology course) running the orphanage was strict that volunteers should spend a minimum of 3 months teaching the kids on the weekends if they wanted to, because…
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Does anxiety produce adrenaline or does adrenaline make the person anxious?
Its obvious that both are related(adrenaline and anxiety) but which causes which?
What (I think) I know:
Anxiety accelerates the hearth rhythm due to the feeling of fear. It makes the body believe that there is a need to spend an enormous amount of…
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Is there a mental condition that makes people unconditionally gullible?
The last several years in my country there has been a string of fraud that involves people, claiming to be police, asking citizens to contribute large sums of money to aid "police investigation".
The cases persist even though news about it is all…
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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?
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In the comments of a blog post analyzing male seducers, a psychotherapist explained…
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Does the relationship between positive mood and motivation for sex differ between males and females?
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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, such a difference would help to explain why males…
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What stimulus features determine the psychophysical power law exponent?
Following the work of Stanley Stevens, psychophysical functions of stimulus intensity are commonly assumed to follow power laws, as illustrated below:
This appears to be true for a wide variety of different types of stimuli and sensations. A table…
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Cultural brain hypothesis and gene-culture co-evolution
Recently, Joseph Henrich of UBC has been promoting his cultural brain hypothesis. The goal is to explain a selection pressure behind the development of the human brain and general intelligence. The basic premise is that our brains evolved to be…
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Why might a stutterer not stutter when talking to themselves, whispering, or singing?
Background: I'm a stutterer myself and have always wondered what caused my stuttering. There have been reports of the effects of certain genes and environmental factors that causes stuttering. But there is nothing really concrete as far as I know.…
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Modern treatments of Alan Turing's B-type neural networks
In the cognitive sciences Alan Turing is best known for launching AI with his Computing machinery and intelligence (1950). However, this was not his first contribution to the cognitive sciences, in his unpublished 1948 technical report Intelligence…
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What form might Jungian archetypes take in the brain?
Modern psychology and psychiatry are very well grounded in scientific principles. Both, however, have a history in various analytical philosophies. Jung had the notion of an archetype, a universally known symbol. While these are perhaps fanciful…
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What is the relation between measures, constructs and concepts?
It is uncontroversial to say that the cognitive sciences do not exclusively deal with directly observable phenomena, but nonetheless aim to study the physical causes of behavior and cognition scientifically. "Grasping", for instance, is directly…
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Research suggesting conscious control over brain region activation?
Has there been any research proving, disproving, or exploring the concept of conscious activation of specific brain regions?
To elaborate on this:
I've read that performing processing tasks causes the brain to reinforce that type/kind of processing…
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