11 results for „mental representations“
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magazine issue | 12/2012
Your mother, metaphors, and other monkey business: How experiences of physical warmth shape how we think about relationships
... about specific experiences in memory. Schemas are mental representations , which represent some aspect of the world. For example, you ... / more
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magazine issue | 02/2007
Brain Training: Practice Keeps You Fit
... or do they actually have a point? In other words, can mental deterioration be prevented by cognitive exercise? It might come in handy ... is experienced in. This could be compared to the physical representations in the brain. In the picture below two homunculi are displayed. ... / more
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magazine issue | 02/2012
“Look in my eyes. I said in my eyes!”: Antecedents and Consequences of (Self-) Objectification
... the focus on female physical appearance embodied in media representations and the objectifying gaze leads to gender differences in ... theory: Toward understanding women's lived experiences and mental health risks. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 21, 173-206. ... / more
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magazine issue | 02/2012
When the thought of yourself nags you: How failure to attain cultural standards brings suicide on the fringe of consciousness
... alcohol. Nevertheless, could failure and suicide form a mental association, such that when we fail, suicide comes to mind more easily? ... goal . In a similar vein, in the Relevance of Activated Representations (ROAR) model (Eitam & Higgins, 2010), the activation level of a ... / more
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magazine issue | 06/2011
General action and inaction goals: Definitions & effects
... has on behavior is a direct effect of the mere motor representations linked to the concept. For example, the notion of rest may ... The implicit “go”: masked action cues directly mobilize mental effort. Psychological Science. Keltner, D., Gruenfeld, D. H, & ... / more
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magazine issue | 06/2007
Evolution of Religion
... similar set of cognitive capabilities, with the exception of mental disorders. Atran and Norenzayan (2004) extend this notion of ... for recall of counter-intuitive representations. Cognitive Science, 25, 535– 564. Casanova ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2014
Word of mouth: How our tongue shapes our preferences, and why you should eat popcorn in the cinema
... tongue tango gets more fluent over time. This efficiency of mental processing is called fluency in psychological research (e.g., ... and features, but a rich bulk of sensory and motor representations that constitute knowledge, memory, and feelings. Beyond the ... / more
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magazine issue | 04/2014
Manipulating the body, measuring the body, and tinkering in the name of Psychology
... field is that the ideas we hold about the world – our mental toolbox to understand the world, to categorize it, and to provide it ... easy or hard by other ideas that again come from embodied representations. Here is an example experiment following this strategy ... / more
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magazine issue | 11/2015
Can you nonbelieve it: What happens when you do not believe in your memories?
... known as an effective manipulation to create vivid mental representations for suggested false events in both children and adults (see ... / more
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magazine issue | 07/2017
Straight talk about gaydar: How do individuals guess others’ sexual orientation?
... consent, and often in the service of diagnosing them with mental illnesses (Morin, 1977). In a society where all are treated equally (or ... but I kissed a girl’: The trouble with American media representations of female-female sexuality. Feminism & Psychology, 15, ... / 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.