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To which gender’s disadvantage are school grades biased – girls or boys?

... about groups), these might inadvertently guide their perception and lead to systematically worse grades for the supposedly less ... the teachers (23). In this context, it could be that the perception of learning behavior is also influenced by stereotypes : The ... / more

Can We Believe in Our Own Lies?

... L. Bjork & R. A. Bjork (Eds.), Memory : Handbook of perception and cognition (2nd ed., pp. 237–313). San Diego, CA: Academic ... / more

From Derogation to Reclamation: How Does Language Change?

... speaking as a “fag”: Auditory gaydar and the perception of reclaimed homophobic language.  Journal of Language and ... / more

Learning styles: Why they don't exist but still persist

... be absorbed through the respective preferred channel of perception in order to make learning as effective as possible (Kirschner & ... processes. This self-assessment is often based on the perception of personal preferences. The reasons for this, in addition to the ... / more

Olympic Mind: An International Special Issue on The Psychology of Extraordinary Sports Performance

... thereby, covering the manifold research areas: perception , cognition, and action; motivation, and emotion; individual ... / more

Is there an art center in our brain? That’s bananas!

... are easier for our brain to process, both at the level of perception and the level of thinking [ Processing Fluency Theory ; 13]. It ... aesthetic judgment results from all the processes of our perception and thinking about the artwork. The aesthetic emotion is more ... / more

That's cringe! – Wait a minute. What is cringe?

... [11] D. K. Marcus, “The Perception of ‘Live’ Embarrassment : A social relations analysis of ... / more

Does nudging have a place in politics? How decision-making contexts inevitably influence our behavior

... critics complain that the observation of distorted risk perception and decision-making in research are too often attributed to people ... / more

Horoscopes – why we believe in them

... [5] M. E. Harris and R. L. Greene, "Students' perception of actual, trivial, and inaccurate personality feedback," Journal ... / more

Climate Stress in Everyday Life: How Can We Support Children?

... and leads to comfort from another person [5]. Through the perception of feelings, we can also be motivated to act: We actively seek out ... fundamentally appropriate and make sense, signaling the perception of a real threat. For example, they can motivate us to act if we ... / more