The Compensatory Control Model and Religious Beliefs
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Post No.: 0096   Furrywisepuppy says:   ‘Priming’ is a fluffy technique that involves exposing people to a prior stimulus (or prime) in order to influence their responses to a subsequent stimulus, without their conscious guidance or intention. In experiments, … Read More

Suffering From Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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Post No.: 0095   Furrywisepuppy says:   Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common type of anxiety disorder. It involves obsessions, which are recurring unwelcome thoughts, concerns, doubts or urges; and compulsions, which are repetitive behaviours that one does to reduce … Read More

The Urgent Need For Everyone to Learn News Literacy
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Post No.: 0094   Furrywisepuppy says:   Expanding on Post No.: 0064 – on the one hand, the Internet is fantastic because it liberates information, allowing it to be easily and freely shared (e.g. public interest news, facts, lessons), but … Read More

How I Met Your Face
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Post No.: 0093   Furrywisepuppy says:   Some of our readers want to know a bit more about you kitten. What’s your fluffy background?   Fluffystealthkitten says:   I come from a long line of stealthy animal sneaksters and tricksters. … Read More

Facing Physical Challenges Makes You Mentally Stronger Too
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Post No.: 0092   Furrywisepuppy says:   Facing tough challenges, not stopping, and still surviving, is what makes us stronger and builds our confidence. It can be a long road but it’s a worthwhile road – it’s worth it because … Read More

A Child’s Early Years is a Most Critical Time
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Post No.: 0091   Fluffystealthkitten says:   A child born naturally left-handed can be made to become right-handed, and over time it’ll become extremely difficult for this person to try to become left-handed – just as difficult as for any … Read More

Collective Wisdom or the Wisdom of the Crowd
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Post No.: 0090   Furrywisepuppy says:   The ‘wisdom of the crowd’ or ‘collective wisdom’ works when individuals may greatly over-estimate or greatly under-estimate answers to a question, such as ‘how heavy is this cow?’, and therefore if the sample … Read More

Get to Know the Laws That Apply, to Your Advantage
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Post No.: 0089   Furrywisepuppy says:   Now it’s incredibly difficult, or perhaps even foolhardy or pointless, to generalise for a global audience a subject such as law because of the different laws and legal systems of different countries (or … Read More

Mindfulness Meditation and Focusing Attention on the Present
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Post No.: 0088   Furrywisepuppy says:   Mindfulness is about an awareness of the present – the here and now – in an open, kind and non-judgemental way. Mindfulness means intentionally maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily … Read More

Some Risk and Protective Factors Regarding Violence
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Post No.: 0087   Furrywisepuppy says:   Violence can be physical, sexual or psychological, and between individuals, groups or self-directed. This post will mainly be concerned with physical violence between individuals, although the above categories often overlap (e.g. physical and … Read More

Perceiving Apophenia and Pareidolia
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Post No.: 0086   Furrywisepuppy says:   Our instincts didn’t evolve to make a 1:1 accurate representation of the real world or the truth – they evolved for survival and reproduction success. So if misperceptions or lies don’t immediately kill … Read More

We Only Trust Our Instincts if We Have Nothing Better to Trust
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Post No.: 0085   Furrywisepuppy says:   Instincts (or intuitions, gut feelings, hunches or whatever you want to call them) and other effortless, unconscious mental heuristic processes have their benefits for sure e.g. when we truly only have a literal … Read More

Press Regulation Versus Press Freedom
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Post No.: 0084   Furrywisepuppy says:   The professional press industry is generally a very good thing if it is free to investigate stories and issues of public interest and isn’t controlled by a single monopoly (be it a state … Read More

Be Yourself. No Really Just Be Yourself!
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Post No.: 0083   Fluffystealthkitten says:   If you’re looking for love then finding the right partner in a relationship is about compatibility. It’s not merely about the list of desirable attributes you want in your potential partner, or their … Read More

Prescribing Exercise and a Healthful Diet as Medicine
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Post No.: 0082   Furrywisepuppy says:   Time and time again, longitudinal (following the same study participants over time) and cross-sectional (taking a snapshot of the population at a particular time) scientific studies have shown that regular physical activity allied … Read More

Will Humans Be a Mere Flash in the Pan?
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Post No.: 0081   Fluffystealthkitten says:   Humans, as a species overall, pat themselves on the backs too much. Many humans are too myopic. According to the most up-to-date evidence – the first Homo sapiens appeared maybe only about 300,000-350,000 … Read More

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