78 results for „human nature“
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magazine issue | 04/2014
More than meets the eye: Physical sensations influence first impressions
... R., Tranel, D., & Damasio, A. R. (1998). The human amygdala in social judgment. Nature, 393, 447 -470. American National Election Studies. (2005). ... / more
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blog categorie(s) - Political Psychology
Bleeding-heart liberals and hard-hearted conservatives: Political dehumanization in the United States
... political opponents—that is, to see them as less than human. According to dehumanization theory (Haslam, 2006), people ... others along two separate dimensions of humanness: human nature and human uniqueness. Human nature (HN) encompasses traits that ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2014
Grasping the grounded nature of mental simulation
... a primer for understanding this fascinating area of human thought. Our lives are filled with repetitive behavior. Take, for ... & Thompson, W. L. (2001). Neural foundations of imagery. Nature Reviews Neuroscience , 2(9), 635-642. Miller, G. (1956). The ... / more
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blog categorie(s) - Happiness & Well-being
Where are the genes for psychological traits?
... despite 20 years of effort, and what this tells us about the nature of these genetic influences. Why are people different – in their ... underpin these. There are around 20,000 genes in the human genome , and we each inherit two copies of these – one from each ... / more
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blog categorie(s) - Meaning Making
Free will without metaphysics
... Focus on belief, not truthiness Questions about the nature of free will have been debated by philosophers since Aristotle, and ... 2010), and this separation of mind from body allows human choice to break the normal laws of causality (Bayer, Ferguson, & ... / more
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Moonwalking with Einstein: the art and science of remembering everything.
... bizarre self-experiment because he wanted to understand how human memory works (and because modern psychology wasn’t invented yet). ... also provides a well-researched and accurate account on the nature and operation of human memory from a scientific point of view, for ... / more
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Bullying in the workplace
... for management could be classified as bullying behavior. Human resources departments are designed to protect management and can be ... are prevalent. Government bureaucracies are anti-progress by nature and bureaucrats don’t like change. They are financed by taxpayers’ ... / more
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blog categorie(s) - Happiness & Well-being
From candidate genes to genome-wide association studies
... the entire genome . This was a made possible by the Human Genome Project , an international project with the goal of determining the sequence of base pairs that make up human DNA , and identifying and mapping all the genes in the human ... receptor subunit signalling controls nicotine intake. Nature , 471 , 597-601. ... / more
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magazine issue | 06/2014
Keeping the spark alive: The role of sexual communal motivation
... is not or takes advantage of the partner’s communal nature, in theory, the communal person should stop being communal or should end ... in sexuality. In K. McKinney & S. Sprecher (Eds.), Human sexuality: The societal and interpersonal context (pp. ... / more
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magazine issue | 08/2014
Living in a safer world: Offering help when surrounded by others for the sake of reputation
... cameras, little is known about how this may impact everyday human behavior. One way all these cameras can influence our everyday lives is ... Pinker, S. (2011). The better angels of our nature: Why violence has declined. New York, NY US: Viking. Prentice-Dunn, ... / 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.