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What traits does a man have, when he is apt to feeling threatened by strong women?
This isn't intended as a gender biased question, as both men and women can have strange hang ups when it comes to either sex.
I am curious about men who are threatened by strong women. By strong women, I mean intelligent, capable, financially…
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How are hallucinations generated, is it related to dreaming?
I was thinking how powerful auditory and visual hallucinations must be, for the individual experiencing them to be unable to distinguish them from reality. I, personally, have not experienced a hallucination, but have experienced vivid dreams and…
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The Ben Franklin effect and cognitive dissonance
The Ben Franklin effect is the phenomena that if a person does a favor toward another person, there is an increased likelihood that the person will do another favor for that person. The same is true for acts of harm. A person who has inflicted harm…
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What are the effects of casual sex on men versus women?
There is a lot of research citing that men are more physically primed for sex than women. Graziottin (2004) discusses this difference and other differences of strength and vulnerabilities between the sexes:
The clinical correlate of the…
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In SDT, are there other measures of detection sensitivity besides d'?
The reason I ask is that I often hear of alternate measures of response bias besides β, but have never heard of an alternate measure of detection sensitivity to d'.
If there is no other measure of detection sensitivity, is that a matter of…
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Reducing ceiling effect with a Likert scale measure
I am designing a psychology study in which the main endpoint is the perceived effectiveness of various medical treatments. In pilot trials, we used a bipolar Likert scale to measure perceived effectiveness:
Very ineffective
Ineffective
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Is there a phenomenon where one feels alienation towards certain body parts
I am wondering whether is there a name for a phenomenon where one has feelings of "alienation" or feels that body parts (limbs, internal organs, etc) do not belong to him or are not "part of his body" ?
For example - imagine a case where someone…
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Who first used the term 'filter' in cognitive science context?
Donald Broadbent's 1958 book Perception and Communication is the oldest work I can find that makes use of this term.
However, I wonder if perhaps someone else had used the term earlier, or if Broadbent had used the term in published work before that…
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Why is my Gabor patch not resizing as a function of the bounding box?
I'm trying to create a Gabor patch of variable size for an upcoming experiment.
Below is the python function used to generate the code. The code was ported from this tutorial for Matlab (assume import numpy as np):
def gabor_patch(size, lambda_,…
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Waking around the same time without an alarm
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I find that regardless of what time I go to bed, or how exhausted I am, I always wake up the next morning between 5 and 6am. This is despite my alarm being consistently set for 6:15am. I used to work in an industry, over 15…
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What kind of feed-back scheme is there for a back-propagation feed-forward ANN for self-learning of touching a coordinate with robot arm?
I'm a beginner in this topic and are learning how to build an artificial neural network and different types of training associated with them.
Right now, I'm trying to figure out self learning. For example, there is a robot arm consisting of two…
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How to design ballot papers with a large number of candidates in a preferential system?
Background: In the 2013 Australian Federal election, several parties were elected to the senate seemingly because of usability issues related to the ballot paper (see here for discussion). For example:
[The] Australian Sports Party has no policies…
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Descriptions of human behavior should be extensible and reducible. Why?
In Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson explains Timothy Leary's theory of personality types, the "interpersonal grid", the diagrammatic representation of which consists of a circle divided by the two dimensions of friendly/hostile and…
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Does fluency on a psychomotor task result from practice and a focus on accuracy?
I know this formula, and I don't know where did I read it (or maybe heard about):
Conscious accuracy + continuous practice = spontaneous fluency
It's an educational technique for long-term learning processes which require the learner to develop…
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Are closed eye movements related to the content of dreams or the imagination?
During rem sleep there are observed eye movements, which seem like they would correlate with the person visualizing their dreams.
Do their eye movements actually try to follow what they're dreaming about? If so, do the eyes ever actually focus on…
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