Skipping Meals and Fasting
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Post No.: 0320   Furrywisepuppy says:   Although you will lose weight if you skip meals and if you ultimately reduce your total daily calorific intake, and if your physical energy expenditure levels remain the same or increase – skipping … Read More

Added Value and Bargaining Power
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Post No.: 0319   Fluffystealthkitten says:   The art of negotiation is such an interesting topic to both Furrywisepuppy and me, so I will help continue our journey into learning more about it…   ‘Added value’ is equal to the … Read More

Evaluating Sources and Following a News Story Over Time
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Post No.: 0318   Furrywisepuppy says:   When choosing a headline for a story, a good journalist should use the most well-supported scenario rather than a headline that’s only used to grab attention (clickbaiting), and then immediately follow it by … Read More

Offender and Racial Profiling
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Post No.: 0317   Furrywisepuppy says:   Offender or criminal profiling is about determining the potential characteristics of an offender by examining the characteristics of a crime scene, the victim(s) and the crime itself. This is based on patterns found … Read More

Goals, and Failure is on the Path to Success
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Post No.: 0316   Furrywisepuppy says:   You cannot just tell a person to do something and expect them to do it – they must feel deep inside that they personally want it. So you’ve got to think of what’s … Read More

Libertarianism Under the Microscope
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Post No.: 0315   Furrywisepuppy says:   Robert Nozick, who supported the school of libertarianism, believed in a minimal state that had no distributive justice (welfare state) or paternalism (people should not be stopped from harming themselves if that’s what … Read More

Eudaimonic Versus Hedonic Pleasure
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Post No.: 0314   Furrywisepuppy says:   Happiness is ironically not easily found when demanding and pursuing constant feelings of happiness and pleasure, or when expecting our needs and desires to be quickly met (e.g. via opioid drugs, gambling or … Read More

Stigma and Seeking Treatment
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Post No.: 0313   Furrywisepuppy says:   A large proportion of individuals across the world with mental health illnesses still do not seek (professional) treatment or help, or seek it only after long delays, hence there’s a huge unmet need … Read More

The Theory Behind Conspiracy Theories
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Post No.: 0312   Fluffystealthkitten says:   Conspiracy theories always involve the rejection of an official account – it’s the presumption of some nefarious intent or a cover-up behind official positions.   Conspiracy theories tend to be linked to one’s … Read More

Child-Parent Attachment Theory
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Post No.: 0311   Furrywisepuppy says:   In child psychology, there are 4 general child-parent attachment styles that attempt to categorise how children respond to their caregivers when they’re hurt, separated or when they perceive a threat.   Secure – … Read More

Suspicion as a Cause of Division
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Post No.: 0310   Furrywisepuppy says:   Groups that don’t interact much with each other will sometimes hold presumptions and suspicions about each other due to racial, religious or other perceived stereotypes. Groups may even erroneously presume that other groups … Read More

Listening Means Learning and Loving
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Post No.: 0309   Fluffystealthkitten says:   People seldom truly listen – they just talk, and talk over other people as if the person who speaks the most shall be inferred to have the greatest authority, or as if the … Read More

Surveys and Selection or Sampling Biases
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Post No.: 0308   Furrywisepuppy says:   ‘Selection biases’, or sometimes synonymously ‘sampling biases’, occur when there is a bias in how the participants or data point samples are selected for use in an experiment, study or survey. An example … Read More

The Pain of Paying, and Mental Accounting
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Post No.: 0307   Furrywisepuppy says:   Continuing from Post No.: 0163, people tend to feel more ‘pain of paying’ when paying by cash rather than by card, casino chips or credits, and so people tend to find it easier … Read More

A Tough Body for a Tough Mind
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Post No.: 0306   Furrywisepuppy says:   Different types of pain bring different or unique challenges. The pain of rejection is not qualitatively the same as the pain of getting cut, even if the signals in the brain may be … Read More

Enforceable and Unenforceable Agreements
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Post No.: 0305   Fluffystealthkitten says:   It was previously mentioned by Furrywisepuppy in Post No.: 0089 that, in Contract law, ambiguity shall be interpreted with the benefit of the doubt in favour of all persons who did not draft … Read More

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