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  • 7 Jun 2022
    Ken Richardson

    Understanding Intelligence

    There are a lot of questions about the validity of IQ tests and the nature of ‘intelligence’. Ken Richardson, author of Understanding Intelligence tries to tackle the problem at the heart of the subject of intelligence by putting intelligence in the context of living functions.

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  • 23 May 2022
    Tobi Zausner

    The Creative Trance: Altered States of Consciousness and the Creative Process

    Inherent in in all of us, are many possibilities, and among those possibilities are multiple states of consciousness.

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  • 6 Dec 2021
    Martin E. Ford, Peyton R. Smith

    Why Leaders Fail: Criteria for Evaluating Prospective Organizational Leaders that Likely Will Not Show Up in an Ad, Job Description, Resume, Cover Letter, or Interview Protocol

    The following insights are derived from Motivating Self and Others by Martin Ford and Peyton Smith. Leadership search and selection processes typically focus on positive experiences and accomplishments and on positive leadership dispositions. And yet, when leaders fail, it is usually because of negative behavior patterns that are associated with specific social, emotional and motivational […]

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  • 13 May 2021
    Melissa Bateson

    Measuring Behaviour: The Next Generation

    The first three editions of Measuring Behaviour were co-authored by Patrick Bateson, known as Pat to his family and friends, and his former graduate student Paul Martin. I had a very special relationship with Pat. Not only was he my father, but I have followed him into the same academic discipline, becoming the second Professor […]

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  • 7 May 2021
    Cigdem V. Sirin, Nicholas A. Valentino, José D. Villalobos

    Naïve or Necessary? Empathy for Outgroups in Times of Heightened Human Conflict

    The Covid-19 pandemic represents a profound challenge for all of mankind. A year after the first outbreak was discovered, deaths directly caused by the virus surpassed 2.5 million, and that number was almost surely an undercount. The discovery of several effective vaccines gave the world hope, but also led to conflict about who should get […]

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  • 27 Jan 2021
    Richard S. Marken

    The Study of Living Control Systems: A Guide to Doing Research on Purpose

    How should we go about trying to understand the behavior of people and other living organisms? One way is to look for its causes. This is the approach taken by most scientific psychologists and is the one taught in most courses on research methods in psychology. Using this approach, the causes of behavior are inferred […]

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  • 25 Jan 2021
    Stephen Vassallo

    Neoliberalism in the Guise of Humanism and Democracy

    This book is part of a critical educational psychology commitment to engage in ideological, cultural, political, and philosophical discussions about the application of psychology in and outside of schools. The motivation to write the book Neoliberal Selfhood was to show ways the discourse of educational psychology is entangled in an economic vision of self. Seemingly […]

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  • 14 Dec 2020
    José Luis Bermúdez

    How Framing Effects Can Be Your Friend

    It’s a robust finding that people react differently to meat depending on how it is labeled. In well-known experiments subjects rated ground beef that was 25% lean as both higher quality and significantly less greasy than ground beef labeled as 75% fat. And then in follow-up studies when subjects were actually given samples to taste, […]

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