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How common are aromantics?
(Aromantic means lacking romantic attraction to others.)
What percent of people are aromantic? While the percentage of people who are asexual seems to be 1%, I couldn't find anything on what percent of people were aromantic.
And a follow-up…
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Why do those with viral infections feel better after wrongly taking antibiotics?
Though I'm unversed in science, I accept and understand that bacteria differ from viruses; so antibiotics don't help in viral infections. Regardless, because older family members still allege that antibiotics have mitigated their colds, can…
user6479
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Is there another word for 'affective control'?
In this paper, the authors use the term 'affective control' or the slightly longer form 'affective cognitive control capacity' to mean 'the ability to regulate emotions or manipulate emotional material in the service of task goals'. However wherever…
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Why might a person get widely varying scores on different online IQ tests?
Online IQ tests often yield wildly varying results (say 60 - 150). These are actual values obtained by repeated measures. It is puzzling, because it's such a wide range. How can the same person be mentally retarded and a genius at the same time?
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What are the brain regions related to tinnitus shown in this figure?
I am interested in learning about the neural mechanisms behind tinnitus, and was wondering if someone could help me to name the parts of the brain on the image below from a site of the University Liege that show increased activity in tinnitus…
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Are you more successful if you publicly commit to pursuing a difficult goal?
If you have an ambitious goal, does it help to publicly commit to that goal? For example, if someone is training for a long distance triathlon but doesn't know whether he/she will be able to pull it off or not. This person could tell his/her friends…
user7759
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Why don't we get regular checkups for mental health, as in physical health?
It's standard practice to get a checkup from your primary care doctor once a year. Why is this not so for a mental health professional? Is your primary supposed to catch possible mental and emotional problems and refer you to a specialist?
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What is an acquired taste?
Some foods are delicious. People love eating them, and the experience has a positive reinforcement. Thus, people will eat the food again.
Some foods are instead "challenging", at least initially. For example, spicy or unfamiliar food. There are some…
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What's the difference between repetition suppression and habituation?
Neural repetition suppression seems to be describing behavioral habituation on a neuronal level. What's the difference between these two terms?
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What type of behaviour is showing, but withholding, a reward?
A specific example of what I mean is: when you go shopping at a supermarket with a loyalty card system, and you do not participate, the receipt say something along the lines of
If you had a loyalty card you would have earned 20 points.
My first…
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Are there any studies (fMRI scans, etc) showing why some people (supposedly) are more open to hypnotism?
In this article published in Harper's magazine back in 1996, journalist David Foster Wallace described his experience with hypnotist Nigel Ellery (see the last section of the article, titled "THE HEADLINE ENTERTAINMENT"). Mr Ellery was providing…
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Freud's theory regarding child to parent attraction
This may be a thought from false information but even from some teachers I've heard quotes of how Sigmund Freud had a theory about how children are attracted to their parent of the opposite gender.
I was just thinking, is that the real theory? Or…
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Bayesian models of faking in selection and recruitment settings
I'm doing some research looking at applying Bayesian models to faking personality tests in selection and recruitment.
I'm interested to know:
What existing work has applied Bayesian models to faking in selection and recruitment?
What studies have…
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Why do con artists like Frank Abagnale Jr. not feel guilt?
I just finished watching a video of Frank Abagnale Jr discuss his life history. Who knows if its true, but it is an amazing story. For those who don't know, Frank Abagnale is one of the most infamous con artists in history according to Wikipedia.…
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Is there a difference between visual short term memory and visual working memory?
As far as I can tell the two terms are used interchangeably. Do these two separate terms exist for historical reasons, or is there a distinction I'm missing?
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