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How does emotional pain cause as much suffering as physical pain?
Consider someone who has a serious injury. Example examples include losing a limb, being shot or falling from a great height.
It is easy for the human mind and science to comprehend and explain why and how much pain that person would…
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What is the neurological mechanism responsible for losing one's temper?
I'd imagine that losing one's temper is quite normal, I can not think of anyone who has not experienced it. For me, it is rare, but does happen, I find that there can be 3 broad stages occur (note: this is not a self help question, but just an…
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How sexual activity influences a woman's sex drive
Sheila Gregoire suggests that increasing the amount of sexual activity increases a woman's sexual desire in general.
I can postulate that child bearing and raising impacts significantly upon a woman's life and that possibly, when a woman finds a…
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What is the reward mechanism for eating spicy foods?
I can eat pure sugar and pure fats and find it pleasurable thanks to the taste receptors; and salt to a lesser extent. But pure raw chilli products trigger irritation to the tongue, cheeks and nasal passages.
So it seems chillies do not "win over"…
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Which morals are universal across the species?
This is the first of a series of three questions about morality:
There are sets of moral standards within any given society. What one society deems as acceptable may be deemed as abhorrent in another. This concept lends itself to the idea that…
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Is the logic of self-reported thoughts related to psychological disorders?
Depression seems to be a disruption in thought patterns. In particular, it is characterized by repetitive thoughts. Is it possible to characterize psychological diseases by looking at the logical structure of self reported thoughts?
For example,…
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Current directions in emulation theory
Over the decades there have been several theories from various aspects of cognitive science that have appealed to a link between perception and action as a way of understanding information processing in the brain. The example that I'm most familiar…
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Why does extrinsic motivation sometimes reduce intrinsic motivation?
Why is it that if a person likes subject X but then when he gets paid for it he doesnt like it anymore. What causes this?
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Mental illness developing in midlife
There is much research about personality development and childhood. The onset of many mental disorders and illnesses, will occur in early adulthood. Studies are done to link certain childhood personality traits with the manifestation of the illness…
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What is the scientific definition of "brain training"?
A lot of companies are selling products under the heading of "brain training", and "brain exercises", "brain games" such as Nintendo DS Brain Training, Lumosity, and a host of other companies.
I'm highly sceptical that such exercises have any…
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Is consistent dual n-back training likely to improve the performance of analysis (mathematics) students?
Suppose you isolate a class of undergraduate mathematics majors who are about to enroll in a semester of real analysis (rigorous, proof-based calculus) and split them into two groups. Then, you schedule the first group to study n hours of real…
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Is there any empirical support evaluating the fast phobia cure?
There have been several papers going against the effectiveness of NLP. One aggregate paper is referenced in the Wikipedia article on NLP, namely Witkowski (2010).
However, NLP seems to encompass a wide variety of techniques.
I'm particularly…
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What are the real life applications for Probability Learning?
Probability learning is a principle that states probability of a response tends to match the probability of the reinforcement.
How does one achieve such rationality under uncertainty? What are the real-life applications of this concept?
I'm…
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Why do some people only work well under pressure?
It is common for people to procrastinate. Putting off tasks until the resulting deadlines get closer and there comes a point at which the person will fire into action.
(whether this point leaves the person with enough time to complete task is…
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Improved Typing as a result of slight movement
I've found that my typing performance (speed, accuracy, flow) are noticeably improved if I am swaying slightly, mostly side to side, in a non-regular manner. I would estimate that the overall movement side to side is less than an inch.
This occurs…
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