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magazine issue | 10/2009
Free Will in Social Psychology
... a different response is thus an important and highly adaptive form of freedom. Without that capability, human animals would always ... to irrational biases. In these studies, the depleting tasks were often rather short and simple, such as watching a CNN-style news ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2014
Seeing mountains in molehills: Embodied visual perception of the environment
... resources influence their ability to take on difficult tasks. Consider the New York City Marathon. On the morning of the race, tens of ... perception is likely to be, for the most part, an adaptive and important step in the regulation of behavior as people look ... / more
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magazine issue | 10/2014
How stress influences our morality
... (TSST), involving public speaking and difficult arithmetic tasks (Kirschbaum et al., 1993). Compared to the non-stressed control group, ... ourselves which reaction would have been evolutionarily adaptive in a specific situation. What follows is that, while stress usually ... / more
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magazine issue | 06/2015
How to win (and lose) friendships across cultures: Why relational mobility matters
... idea that what kind of behavior is optimal – or, adaptive – in any particular situation depends on the nature of the ... at what socio-ecological researchers refer to as ‘adaptive tasks (or goals)’ required for human flourishing in differing levels of ... / more
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magazine issue | 08/2015
Why do we so often ignore the influence of situations on behavior?
... others will do next. Because these predictions are so adaptive , necessary, and automatic it might simply be second nature to have a ... have revealed a role for the medial prefrontal cortex in tasks that involve mentalizing or other related social-cognitive phenomena such ... / more
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magazine issue | 09/2018
The Effect of Acute Stress on Memory: How It Helps and How It Hurts
... less on relationships and complexities between stimuli or tasks. This shift is often adaptive in that it is less cognitively demanding than flexible thinking, and ... / moreHere you can search the entire InMind magazine for any content of your choice. You can reduce your search results by selecting one or more filter options in the right column.