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Innate personality tests: do they exist? If not, why?
A personality is developed by innate factors and by the things that happen in your life, but how would your personality be if you either had received the same amount of positive and negative stimuli from those, or if your stimuli from those…
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What are “Stimulus locked” and “Response locked” in Philiastides & Sajda (2006)
While going through the below-mentioned paper, I came across some plots which were said to be "locked" with reference to either response or stimulus. Does the locking refer to the initiation of the measurement with starting cue being the…
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How does our brain consider something to be funny?
What makes something that we watch (a clown's antics, hidden camera pranks, etc.), hear (jokes), read (satire), or do (pranks) be perceived as funny?
Even babies find certain actions and sounds funny, and they will laugh.
Is there a common attribute…
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What is the effect of merely expecting an interruption on performance?
There's a lot of research about how interruptions affect cognitive performance.
Are there any studies that have looked at the effect of merely expecting to be interrupted (withou being actually interrupted) on performance?
What does these studies…
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What makes some things more fun than others universally?
Recently I have been presented with the question, "What makes something addictive, and why are some activities more addicting than others?" This question intrigues me, as logically, the answer would be along the lines of, "The mind has a constant…
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Is the decline of fluid IQ with age less severe for professors and scientists than it is for other people?
This article in Time magazine suggests that engaging in challenging mental tasks may be associated with lower rates of mental decline in older adults.
The article states that:
In one study, presented last year at the Cognitive Neuroscientist
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Is it normal for men in long term relationships to want to have sexual relationships with other women?
If a man who is married or in a long term relationship wants to have sexual relationships with other women, is this pathological, deviant, maybe even a disorder? Or is it part of normal and healthy male sexuality?
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Can the daily use of two or more languages impact cognitive capacity?
I've read the following threads:
Is it possible to think in a second language?
Does language and/or culture affect an individual's cognitive capacity?
is it possible to think without language?
Language is clearly a very good tool for structuring…
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How does syntax highlighting affect the learning of a new programming language?
What impact does syntax highlighting have on students' progress in learning a new programming language?
I'm looking for studies along the lines of the following hypothetical experiment, which involves two groups of students: one group would code in…
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Why do people often do unnecessary things while performing a main task?
And this is not about procrastination (I'm almost certain).
I've been noticing it since childhood that people (me included) tend to do unnecessary side activity, especially if they're invested in the main activity.
Examples of main activity: having…
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Why aren't sleep measures consistently measured as mediators/moderators of cognitive performance?
Knowing that sleep quantity and quality affects cognitive performance across many domains, why aren't pre-test sleep measures or intra-test measures of arousal a standard part of all cognitive test paradigms?
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Are mnemonics by creating associations good for memory?
I read a book which says that to remember the lists of arbitrary objects, we should take a well-known ordered list (so that you know what is on the first place, what is on the second) and associate the items of this familiar list with your target…
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Why does a person get obsessive for those who don't take interest in him?
Why does a person get obsessive, Specially towards those who don't accept his love or attraction towards them?
Self esteem has such an impact on human life that he wants to preserve his esteem in any way possible. Then why does one get obsessive…
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What causes fetishes? Are they sexual disorders?
Why do people have fetishes, such as foot fetishes?
How do such fetishes form?
Are childhood incidents the main cause of fetishes?
Are fetishes a sexual disorder?
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what is the reptile brain?
As a Carl Sagan fan, I remember (in Cosmos TV shoe) "territoriality, aggression and ritual" are products of the reptile brain while higher-level stuff like loyalty, planning for future are mammalian, which implies different brain regions for each…
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