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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
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viii, 291 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and healing. A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath...
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Island Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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xviii, 278 pages : illustrations (black and white) diagrams, photographs ; 23 cm
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English
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"Although their brains are incredibly small—just one million neurons compared to humans’ 100 billion—bees have remarkable abilities to navigate, learn, communicate, and remember. In What a Bee Knows, entomologist Stephen Buchmann explores a bee’s way of seeing the world and introduces the scientists who make the journey possible. We travel into the field and to the laboratories of noted bee biologists who have spent their careers digging into...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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xi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Joseph LeDoux offers a new framework for understanding how biological processes give rise to the sense of being an independent personality in the world. Theorizing the intricate interdependence of the bodily, neural, cognitive, and conscious realms, Ledoux explores the evolution of the human as an "ensemble of being" unique among Earth's animals"--
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Radical in its implications, this original and important work may change forever the views we hold about the nature of learning. In The Power of Mindful Learning, Ellen Langer uses her innovative theory of mindulness, introduced in her influential earlier book, to dramatically enhance the way we learn. In business, sports, laboratories, or at home, our learning is hobbled by certain antiquated and pervasive misconceptions. In this pithy, liberating,...
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Get the Summary of Sue Varma's Practical Optimism in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Practical Optimism" by Sue Varma is a guide to cultivating resilience and a positive mindset in the face of life's uncertainties. The book emphasizes the importance of combining positive thinking with proactive measures to enhance well-being. Varma, who practices optimism herself, explains that optimists focus on controllable aspects...
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La Psicología, y las ciencias cognitivas en general, tratan precisamente de descubrir la organización y el funcionamiento de la mente, no solo de su parte consciente, sino de la mente en su conjunto, ya que la mente consciente es el resultado del funcionamiento de esa parte más grande a la que no tenemos acceso directo y que explica comportamiento de los individuos. El objetivo último de este libro es llegar a conocer por qué hacemos lo que hacemos...
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La naturaleza humana está determinada por diversos factores sociales, ambientales, políticos, culturales y psicológicos; los seres humanos son construcciones sociales. En este sentido, desde la infancia se experimentan las primeras dinámicas en el mundo social y a partir allí, se modulan conductas y posibilidades para el éxito en la vida adulta. De acuerdo con lo anterior, el objetivo de este libro es explorar la producción científica sobre...
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What accounts for the remarkable ability to get inside another person's head-to know what they're thinking and feeling? "Mind reading" is the very heart of what it means to be human, creating a bridge between self and others that is fundamental to the development of culture and society. But, until recently, scientists didn't understand what in the brain makes it possible.
This has all changed in the last decade. Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist...
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Get the Summary of Michael Easter's Scarcity Brain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and one of the world's leading experts on behavior change, shows that the problem isn't you. The problem is your scarcity mindset, left over from our ancient ancestors. They had to constantly seek and consume to survive because vital survival tools like food,...
10) Anxiety Disorder
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Encountering infrequent anxiety is a typical piece of life. Nonetheless, individuals with uneasiness issues as often as possible have extraordinary, unnecessary, and persevering stress and dread over regular circumstances. Frequently, tension issues include rehashed episodes of unexpected sensations of extreme nervousness and dread or fear that arrive at a top in practically no time (fits of anxiety).These sensations of tension and frenzy disrupt...
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Depression is a state of mind problem that causes a constant sensation of trouble and loss of interest. Likewise called a significant burdensome issue or clinical discouragement, it influences how you feel, think, and act and can prompt different close-to-home and actual issues. You might experience difficulty doing typical everyday exercises, and now and again you might feel as though your daily routine does not merit experiencing.Something beyond...
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Robert Kurzban is associate professor of psychology and founder of the Pennsylvania Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2008, he won the inaugural Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution from the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
The evolutionary psychology behind human inconsistency
We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind.
Robert...
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Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual-until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily...
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English
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Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual-until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily...
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English
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Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual-until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily...
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English
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Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual-until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily...
17) OCD Disorder
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(OCD) Obsessive-compulsive disorder highlights an example of undesirable considerations and fears (fixations) that lead you to do dull ways of behaving (impulses). These fixations and impulses impede day-to-day exercises and cause huge pain.You might attempt to overlook or stop your fixations, however, that mainly builds your trouble and tension. At last, you feel headed to perform habitual demonstrations to attempt to facilitate your pressure. In...
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"Mentes en juego: Desafiando la Manipulación y Tomando El Control", es un libro cautivador que desentraña los secretos detrás de cómo nuestras mentes y comportamientos son influenciados, desde los fundamentos de la manipulación hasta las estrategias modernas de medios y discurso, este libro te guiará a través de un viaje de descubrimiento, aprende a discernir la verdad en un mundo saturado de información y descubre cómo utilizar estas técnicas...
19) Secretos de la Psicología Oscura: Cómo dominar la persuasión, el control mental y la manipulación
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¿Te has preguntado porqué algunos pueden hacer que otras personas hagan lo que ellos quieren sin mucho esfuerzo? ¿Qué es lo que hacen los que nos rodean para lograr lo que ellos quieren? ¿Porqué compramos seguido cosas que realmente no necesitamos? Entonces, tienes que seguir leyendo… "Las palabras, como los rayos X, atraviesan cualquier cosa, si uno las emplea bien." - Aldous Huxley La psicología oscura no es un concepto nuevo. Desde el...
20) Dejar de Pensar Demasiado: Como Eliminar el Pensamiento Excesivo. Eliminar los Pensamientos Negativo
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Cómo dejar de preocuparse y eliminar el pensamiento negativo en menos de un mes. Pensar en exceso es algo más que una molestia: los estudios demuestran que pensar demasiado puede afectar seriamente a su bienestar. Aquí están los tres peligros de ser un pensador excesivo:Aumenta las posibilidades de padecer enfermedades mentales.
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Altera el sueño.
Un estudio de 2013 publicado en el Journal of Abnormal...
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