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The peer review process is another aspect of psychological research that has been criticized. Though there are some positive aspects to the peer review process, it is not designed well enough to detect fraud. There are many studies that have passed through several peer reviews that have later been found to be fraudulent. [36]
The Daily Telegraph review writes, "Rarely have such bold claims been advanced on the basis of such flimsy evidence." [10] In Think!: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye (Simon and Schuster, 2006), Michael LeGault argues that "Blinklike" judgments are not a substitute for critical thinking. He criticizes Gladwell for ...
Two definitions of the field include: "the scientific study of human behavior and its transmission, taking into account the ways in which behaviors are shaped and influenced by social and cultural forces" [8] and "the empirical study of members of various cultural groups who have had different experiences that lead to predictable and significant differences in behavior". [9]
[15] In the former Soviet Union, Lithuanian Aušra Augustinavičiūtė independently derived a model of personality type from Jung's called socionics. Later on many other tests were developed on this model e.g. Golden, PTI-Pro and JTI. Theories could also be considered an "approach" to personality or psychology and is generally referred to as a ...
Many cultures throughout history have speculated on the nature of the mind, heart, soul, spirit, brain, etc. For instance, in Ancient Egypt, the Edwin Smith Papyrus contains an early description of the brain, and some speculations on its functions (described in a medical/surgical context) and the descriptions could be related to Imhotep who was the first Egyptian physician who anatomized and ...
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom is a 2006 book written by American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.In it, Haidt poses several "Great Ideas" on happiness espoused by thinkers of the past—such as Plato, Buddha and Jesus—and examines them in the light of contemporary psychological research, extracting from them any lessons that still apply to our modern lives.
[14] [15] This phenomenon is called the liking gap. [16] [17] The rate at which different qualities are detected in first impressions may be linked to what has been important to survival from an evolutionary perspective. [11] For example, trustworthiness and attractiveness were the two traits most quickly detected and evaluated in a study of ...
[15] However, the framing effect seems to disappear when encountering it in a foreign (non-native) language. [16]: 246 [17] One explanation of this disappearance is that a non-native language provides greater cognitive and emotional distance than one's native tongue. [18] A foreign language is also processed less automatically than a native tongue.