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What is the difference between Megalomania and Narcissism?
As far as I can tell, both megalomania and narcissism are found in [delusions of] grandiosity. Perhaps megalomania has more focus on power, rather than just being well liked?
What is the primary difference between the two?
Are all megalomaniacs…
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Difference between Logan's Instance theory and Exemplar-Based Random Walk (EBRW) theory
I'm trying to find a clear explanation of the difference between Logan's instance theory (Logan, 2002) and the Exemplar-Based Random Walk theory (Nosofsky & Palmari, 1997). Am I mistaken that they are two separate ways of dealing with the question…
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Is a desire for a certain food related to the nutritional need for that food?
It appears that, from time to time, everybody has a strong desire for some specific food.
I want to know whether this is the feedback of the body needing certain nutrients or whether it's purely related other influences such as emotions.
Q: To what…
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What adjectives can be used to describe emotional intelligence competences?
After reading the book Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, I'm having a difficult time comparing emotional intelligence (EQ) with Intelligence Quotient (IQ).
When talking about someone's IQ we use adjectives as: intelligent, genius, fool,…
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What types of sounds do young infants prefer?
I've learned through course lectures that infants can recognize faces shortly after birth (Slater & Quinn, 2001), and have a visual preference for human features as young as 1-month-old (Sanefuji et al., 2011)[pdf]. Infants are also known to prefer…
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The current recommended text for statistics in behavioural sciences
I have an old book: Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences (4th ed.) by Gravetter & Wallnau. I want to transition my textbooks to eBook format, but this book doesn't come like that (as far as I can tell).
The book is comprehensive in explaining…
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aftereffects of auditory adaptation
Adaptation is a very robust feature of sensory processing: when a stimulus is displayed for a prolonged period, or repeatedly, the neural response to it will diminish. This process creates a local change in cortical sensitivity, which is…
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Why do people commit suicide?
I don't understand why people commit suicide.
If I imagine myself in a really bad situation and make a list of what kind of things I would do in that situation, I don't have suicide even in my top-100 things to do in my list! In the worst situation…
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What books should I study to have a decent understanding of psychology?
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I am a student currently doing my undergraduate degree (Electrical and Electronics, if it interests anyone). I am very much interested in studying psychology. I have read quite a bit on psychology, mostly on PsychCentral and…
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Why dreams can be surprising?
If we all agree that dreams are created by our own minds, then how could some dreams surprise us, since, after all, all the things that could happen in a dream are made up by us, and should be utterly predictable and be of no surprise at all? For…
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Is it possible for humans to conceive of being dead?
I am reading Stephen Cave's book Immortality, and one of the claims he makes early on is that there is a "mortality paradox." This is the phenomenon that humans know that they will die (based on induction), but that "the one thing that these minds…
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Do people who lose their faith tend to replace it with other non-evidence-based reasoning?
I was watching this talk by Phil Plait given at TAM(The Amazing Meeting) 8. You can find a partial transcript here. It will help provide some context.
In the talk he makes the following claim:
Studies have shown that people who lose their faith…
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Why aren't Connectionism and Dynamicism considered part of the Computational Theory of the Mind?
In the Wikipedia article for Computational Theory of the Mind (NOT to be confused with Computational Representational Understanding of Mind which includes Connectionism), it is mentioned that alternatives to this philosophical view are Connectionism…
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Which statistical test should I use when there are multiple latent predictors and multiple latent outcomes?
Which statistical method should I use when Predicting organization commitment (composed of 3 latent variables) using the five factors of personality?
Its a cross-sectional design with survey data. The Personality factors are Five independent factors…
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What psychological or sociological concepts form the basis of Principled Negotiation?
Although the various forwards mention that organizational behavior and social psychology are two of the fields that form the basis for the techniques taught at Harvard Law School's Negotiation and Leadership Program, the majority of the material…
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