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  2. Table setting - Wikipedia

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    Informal setting with pancakes in a California mountain cabin. At an informal setting, fewer utensils are used and serving dishes are placed on the table. Sometimes the cup and saucer are placed on the right side of the spoon, about 30 cm or 12 inches from the edge of the table. Often, in less formal settings, the napkin should be in the wine ...

  3. Suanpan - Wikipedia

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    The suanpan (simplified Chinese: 算盘; traditional Chinese: 算盤; pinyin: suànpán), also spelled suan pan or souanpan [1] [2]) is an abacus of Chinese origin, earliest first known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BCE during the Han dynasty, and later, described in a 190 CE book of the Eastern Han ...

  4. Table-setting - Wikipedia

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    Table-setting, or tablescaping, is an activity involving the setting of sometimes elaborate dining tables in artful, decorative or themed ways for social events, and in a variety of categories for competitions and exhibitions.

  5. Behavior settings - Wikipedia

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    However, the notion of behavior setting is offered here in more detail and with more specificity than is found in the larger entry under ecological psychology or environmental psychology. There has been a tendency in the social sciences generally to polarize arguments about consciousness, identity, behavior, and culture around either the mind ...

  6. Interpersonal compatibility - Wikipedia

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    The problem's unclear status in social science (the problem may belong to social psychology, sociology, personality psychology etc.) Different psychological theories propose different parameters of personality, but only few of them are generally accepted among psychologists (e.g. cognitive styles ); still, even generally accepted criteria may ...

  7. Psychology - Wikipedia

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    Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. [1] [2] Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social ...

  8. Observational methods in psychology - Wikipedia

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    A natural setting can be defined as a place in which behavior ordinarily occurs and that has not been arranged specifically for the purpose of observing behavior. [2] Direct observation is also necessary if researchers want to study something that is unethical to control for in a lab.

  9. Set and setting - Wikipedia

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    Set and setting are factors that can condition the effects of psychoactive substances: "Set" refers to the mental state a person brings to the experience, like thoughts, mood and expectations; "setting" to the physical and social environment. [2] This is especially relevant for psychedelic experiences in either a therapeutic or recreational ...