Sentences with phrase «ones on human psychology»

One drawback is that many of the mental models are clear and adequately described — the ones on human psychology.

Not exact matches

Notification abuse is just one example of a larger challenge among so many new tech companies — companies that have seized on the latest hacks of human psychology and the pseudoscience of A / B testing to create highly optimized, highly manipulative products.

Resistance to religion is based on an ineluctable fact of human psychology to which he returns again and again: No one sins without making some excuse to himself for sinning.

Just as physics reveals little of significance about man until one reflects on the enterprises of science and technology, so scientific psychology, aiming to out - do physics in objective rigor, can yield little insight about man until the distinctive human quality of self - awareness is acknowledged as an essential factor in psychological inquiry.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

Part of the appeal of psychology has been its ability to bridge the distance between human suffering on the one hand and theology, philosophy and ethics on the other.

In a new study published in the current issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science at Florida Atlantic University and Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin in Germany measured the effects of situations on human behavior in real - time and outside of a laboratory setting in one of the largest studies to employ experience sampling methods.

Anchoring or focalism is a term used in psychology to describe the common human tendency to rely too heavily, or «anchor,» on one trait or piece of information when making decisions.

Three Additional Courses Related to Human Development and Psychology (12 credits)(One of which must have a strong focus on diversity and equity)

On the contrary, evolutionary psychology reintroduces in its own way the classical idea that there are inherent conflicts in human nature — both selfishness and altruism, both a desire to possess one's neighbor's spouse and a desire to get along with one's neighbor.

This leaves the stronger bond argument, but that one is easy to dismiss because it's based on human and not dog psychology.

Based on the largest study ever conducted on happiness and human potential (a survey conducted by the author of more than 1,600 students), Harvard lecturer Shawn Achor shares seven core principles of positive psychology that each one of us can use to improve our performance, grow our careers, and gain a competitive edge at work.

It is a peculiar feature of human psychology that we look first to one another, not to reality, for cues on how to behave.

My own personal bias is that conspiracy ideation, and offering hyperbolic rhetoric is not disproporationate on one side of the climate wars compared to the other, and further, that what we know about human psychology and cognition would make such an outcome implausible.

On a personal note, it's encouraging for me to see a law school finally paying attention to social psychology (and I can only hope that Yale and other schools will start thinking about individual psychology as well): it has always struck me as completely bizarre that although there is a tacit assumption that law has something to do with human conduct and is not just an exercise in art — if, as Shelley says, poets can be legislators, then lawyers can be poets — there is not one moment spent in a student's legal education in exploring the nature of the human actor.

He also has an excellent blog on «The Psychology of Human Sexuality,» which is one of our favorite reads.

«My Master's degree (in human kinetics — that's sport psychology to the layperson) was focused on consultation and intervention, working with individuals one - on - one or in a team setting to help them perform at their best, including mental coaching, consulting with athletes on how to perform at peak levels and deal with emotions,» he says.