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 | Andreou, Chrisoula | Addiction, procrastination, and failure points in decision-making systems | Redish et al. suggest that their failures-in-decision-making framework for understanding addiction can also contribute to improving our understanding of a variety of psychiatric disorders. In the spirit of reflecting on the significance and scope of their research, I briefly develop the idea that t... | Addiction; Failure in decision-making systems | 2008-08 |
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 | Nichols, Shaun | Confabulation, confidence, and introspection | Carruthers' arguments depend on a tenuous interpretation of cases from the confabulation literature. Specifically, Carruthers maintains that cases of confabulation are "subjectively indistinguishable" from cases of alleged introspection. However, in typical cases of confabulation, the self-attributi... | Confabulation; Carruthers | 2009-04 |
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 | Nichols, Shaun | Do children think of the self as the soul? | Bering's work provides new insight into the child's concept of the self. For his results indicate that children don't regard bodily identity as required for identity of self across time. Bering's methodology for investigating afterlife beliefs might also be exploited to explore the extent to which c... | 2006-10 | |
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 | Cashdan, Elizabeth A. | Sex differences in aggression: what does evolutionary theory predict? | The target article claims that evolutionary theory predicts the emergence of sex differences in aggression in early childhood, and that there will be no sex difference in anger. It also finds an absence of sex differences in spousal abuse in Western societies. All three are puzzling from an evolutio... | 2009-08 |
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