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The Pollyanna principle (also called Pollyannaism or positivity bias) is the tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones. [1] Research indicates that at the subconscious level, the mind tends to focus on the optimistic; while at the conscious level, it tends to focus on the negative.
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Donald Eric (D. E.) Broadbent CBE, [1] FRS [2] (Birmingham, 6 May 1926 – 10 April 1993) [3] was an influential experimental psychologist from the United Kingdom. [4] His career and research bridged the gap between the pre-World War II approach of Sir Frederic Bartlett [5] and what became known as cognitive psychology in the late 1960s.
Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses processes such as knowledge, attention, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language.
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. [1] Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical ...
Some of the items they stole included a white and red coffee cup, a stone that said "forgive" and two Chicken Soup for the Soul books Throughout the prank, Hulse recorded her grandma's reactions.
Sommer argued that "the book has the potential to serve as an invaluable guide for psychologists and other scholars who are aware of the increasing crisis and lack of orientation within modern academic psychology." [6] Critics Mitchell G. Ash, Horst Gundlach and Thomas Sturm negatively reviewed the book in American Journal of Psychology in 2010 ...
A U.S. appeals court has rejected British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's request to revisit its decision upholding her conviction for helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse ...