The Anchoring Effect on Prices and Other Numbers
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Post No.: 0144   Furrywisepuppy says:   Any number that you are asked or primed (either manipulatively by another party or unwittingly by yourself or anyone, and either consciously or unconsciously) to consider as a possible solution to an estimation … Read More

Working, Short-Term and Long-Term Memories
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Post No.: 0143   Fluffystealthkitten says:   Continuing from Post No.: 0128 and our exploration into the topic of memory – when learning new things, new information will compete with and potentially push out existing information when it concerns our … Read More

The Developing Brains of Adolescents
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Post No.: 0142   Furrywisepuppy says:   Adolescent brains take many years to develop and mature. The duration of adolescence is currently disputed amongst scientists – it certainly starts when an individual starts puberty, but when it ends has no … Read More

The Laws of Large and Small Numbers
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Post No.: 0141   Furrywisepuppy says:   The law of large numbers tells us that large sample sizes of random events will more likely produce one or two extreme events compared to small sample sizes, but these extreme events could … Read More

Sweet But Psychopaths
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Post No.: 0140   Fluffystealthkitten says:   Psychopathy is on one end of a continuous spectrum of personality traits, which means that these traits are not ‘all or nothing’ and almost all of us exhibit some of these traits but … Read More

Keeping the Global Population in Check
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Post No.: 0139   Furrywisepuppy says:   The size of the global human population matters because this planet only has a limited amount of resources, including land, and can only take so much human-made pollution. The vast majority of human … Read More

The Pro-Life and Pro-Choice Abortion Dilemma
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Post No.: 0138   Furrywisepuppy says:   We’re going to talk together about a very tricky subject now – abortion.   Fluffystealthkitten says:   Yep. It’s a fluffy dilemma that usually generates a lot of heated debate and leaves both … Read More

Good Goed Godt Gott Gut Bacteria
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Post No.: 0137   Furrywisepuppy says:   There used to be a time when all bacteria was, in the main, considered the invading enemy that we ought to do our damnedest to destroy and get rid of from our bodies … Read More

What Good Does Punishing People Do?
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Post No.: 0136   Furrywisepuppy says:   Preventing crime (whether at the grassroots level or increased police presence, for instance) is better than attempting criminal correction after a crime has been committed, but sometimes prevention fails because we don’t want … Read More

Laughter, Play, Regular Physical Exercise and Nature
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Post No.: 0135   Furrywisepuppy says:   Laughter is indeed a medicine that one is recommended to take regularly. (I like watching lots of comedy!) It overall decreases our blood pressure, enhances our immune function, reduces the focus on any … Read More

Correlation Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Causation
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Post No.: 0134   Fluffystealthkitten says:   A randomised-controlled trial (RCT) is a type of scientific experiment that involves randomising the allocation of the participants of an experiment between two groups – a group receiving the treatment under investigation (e.g. … Read More

Fairness and the Principle of the Divided Cloth
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Post No.: 0133   Furrywisepuppy says:   This post requires understanding what a ‘pie’ means in negotiation contexts, which has been explained in Post No.: 0124.   If one creditor is owed £300 and another creditor is owed £100, but … Read More

How a Child Picks Up His or Her First Language
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Post No.: 0132   Furrywisepuppy says:   We tend to find it totally natural to speak to babies with a higher pitch than normal, with a rhythmic pace and exaggerating the length of the words – this ‘parentese’ or ‘baby … Read More

Taking Your Frustration Out on Others
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Post No.: 0131   Furrywisepuppy says:   Do you think you’re only ever angry with other people because they’ve directly annoyed you, yet other people are often only angry with you because they’re taking something else out on you?   … Read More

The Cognitive Science of Art
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Post No.: 0130   Furrywisepuppy says:   Lots of people consider visual art and aesthetics to be a subject that can never be truly investigated and understood by science because it’s beyond the language of science or should not be … Read More

Shame, Feeling Like a Burden on Others and Suicide
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Post No.: 0129   Furrywisepuppy says:   This is a very sensitive topic so please read on only if and when you are comfortable to…   Someone can be passively suicidal (i.e. the symptoms are mostly only the suicide ideation … Read More

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