psychology

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    Religion and tradition still influence couples' decision to get married

    In another thread, I was explaining how, for many Northwest Europeans, the decision to get married or live under a civil union or domestic partnership was often simply motivated by the desire to have a wedding party (still a dream for many women, regardless of their religiosity). I was...
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    Top 10 Cool Psychological Research Findings

    I don't agree with all of these, but some of them are pretty interesting. 10. That makes sense, smiling, frowning, scowling, and crying are universal in all populations. 9. I guess I can believe that. 8. Doubt it, if I can get paid $250,000 a year to pump gas, I'd love that job. 7. By...
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    Do Animals Have Emotions? A Debate

    I do believe that certain higher-order thinking animals have emotions. Perhaps not as advanced as humans, but to at least some degree.
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    Psychopaths have a distinct preference for rap music

    Interesting study. It might be possible to identify psychopaths based on their musical preferences. The Guardian: Playlist of the Lambs: psychopaths may have distinct musical preferences "Contrary to the movie trope epitomised by Alex in A Clockwork Orange and Hannibal Lecter in the Silence...
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    Heredity Heritability of character and personality

    I wouldn't qualify the following study as new exactly, as it was published in 1986, but it still makes for an interesting read. New York Times: MAJOR PERSONALITY STUDY FINDS THAT TRAITS ARE MOSTLY INHERITED The main finding is: "Among traits found most strongly determined by heredity were...
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    ASD Can someone have high IQ without having at least some Asperger traits ?

    Many if not most great geniuses in history are now thought to have had Asperger syndrome or High-functioning Autism. It all started with Norm Ledgin's book Diagnosing Jefferson, in which the author argues that Jefferson's behaviours matches the five diagnostic criteria for Asperger's: social...
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    Could a machine or an AI ever feel human-like emotions ?

    Computers will soon be able to simulate the functioning of a human brain. In a near future, artificial superintelligence could become vastly more intellectually capable and versatile than humans. But could machines ever truly experience the whole range of human feelings and emotions, or are...
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    Social psychologist claims that European individualism originated in wheat farming

    The New Scientist reported last night a theory explaining why Europeans are generally individualists while East Asians are collectivists. According to Thomas Talhelm, a social psychologist the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, rice farming seems to have fostered collective thinking...
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    Personality Individualism, Autism, scientific minds and North European cultures

    I stumbled on a list of typical traits of autistic people and I was quite surprised to see how many of them were also typically associated with individualistic cultures from Northern Europe (+ North America, Australia and New Zealand). Many traits are also typical of scientists and...
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    Question Are you a verbal or visual thinker ?

    Everybody thinks differently. People can't be lumped in just two categories such as 'verbal' or visual'. Like for everything else there is a gradation on a scale and each individual will fit somewhere in between the two extremities. Verbal thinkers, on one side, think in words. Spatio-visual...
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