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  2. Bridge scour - Wikipedia

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    Scour at bridge sites is typically classified as contraction (or constriction) scour and local scour. Contraction scour occurs over a whole cross-section as a result of the increased velocities and bed shear stresses arising from a narrowing of the channel by a construction such as a bridge.

  3. Misattribution of arousal - Wikipedia

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    The same woman becomes more attractive when meeting on the exciting suspension bridge. Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron's study (1974) [3] to test the causation of misattribution of arousal incorporated an attractive confederate woman to wait at the end of a bridge that was either a suspension bridge (that would induce fear) or a sturdy bridge (that would not induce fear).

  4. Two-factor theory of emotion - Wikipedia

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    One bridge was a very scary (arousing) suspension bridge, which was very narrow and suspended above a deep ravine. The second bridge was much safer and more stable than the first. At the end of each bridge an attractive female experimenter met the [male] participants.

  5. Scour - Wikipedia

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    Hydrodynamic scour, the removal of sediment such as sand and silt from around an object by water flow Bridge scour, erosion of soil around at the base of a bridge pier or abutments via the flow of air, ice, or water; Tidal scour, erosion of substrate via tidal flow; Ice scour or ice gouge, a drifting ice feature that scrapes the seabed

  6. Cognitive psychology - Wikipedia

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    Given such a sweeping definition, it is apparent that cognition is involved in everything a human being might possibly do; that every psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon. But although cognitive psychology is concerned with all human activity rather than some fraction of it, the concern is from a particular point of view.

  7. Psychic bid - Wikipedia

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    Psychic bid (also psych, pronounced to rhyme with like) is a bid in contract bridge that grossly misstates the power and/or suit lengths of one's hand. It is used deliberately to deceive the opponents.

  8. Muscle contraction - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of smooth muscle contraction. Muscle contraction is the activation of tension-generating sites within muscle cells. [1] [2] In physiology, muscle contraction does not necessarily mean muscle shortening because muscle tension can be produced without changes in muscle length, such as when holding something heavy in the same position. [1]

  9. Social cognitive neuroscience - Wikipedia

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    Social cognitive neuroscience is the scientific study of the biological processes underpinning social cognition.Specifically, it uses the tools of neuroscience to study "the mental mechanisms that create, frame, regulate, and respond to our experience of the social world". [1]