The Army and Vietnam
Many senior army officials still claim that if they had been given enough soldiers and weapons, the United States could have won the war in Vietnam. In this probing analysis of ...
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Mood: the frame of mind
1. The Concept of Mood.- Defining Mood.- Distinguishing the Major Types of Mood.- The Figure-Ground Distinction.- 2. Theories of Mood.- 3. Sources of Mood: Events of Affective S...
Motivated Reasoning and Performance on the was on Selection Task
People tend to approach agreeable propositions with a bias toward confirmation and disagreeable propositions with a bias toward disconfirmation. Because the appropriate strategy...
Children's Developing Understanding of Mental Verbs: Remember, Know, and Guess
JOHNSON, CARL NILS, and WELLMAN, HENRY M. Children's Developing Understanding of Mental Verbs: Remember, Know, and Guess. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1980, 51, 1095-1102. Preschool child...
Brain activity during stimulus independent thought.
The neural correlates of stimulus-independent thoughts (SITs) were investigated in two studies of normal volunteers, using positron emission tomography (PET) and H2(15)O to meas...
Mind—body identity, privacy and categories
Current controversies about the Mind—Body Identity Theory form a case-study for the investigation of the methods practised by linguistic philosophers. Recent criticisms of these...
A mathematician, a physicist and a computer scientist with Asperger syndrome: Performance on folk psychology and folk physics tests
Abstract We describe three cases of very-high-functioning individuals with Asperger syndrome, two of whom are university students (in physics and computer science, respectively)...