Category: <span>Cognitive science</span>

Cognitive science

Annie Jacobsen: Inside DARPA – The Pentagon’s Brain

Jacobsen, A.. (2015). The Pentagon’s brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America’s top secret military research agency. Little, Brown US Moreno, J. D.....

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Sir Francis Galton (*1822;†1911): Hereditary Genius

Sir Francis Galton, was an English Victorian era statistician, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician. He was...

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Joseph Goebbels principles of propaganda

„We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that...

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Google’s Whitepaper on the “fight” of disinformation

George Lakoff could write a book on the “conceptual metaphor” employed in the title of the whitepaper. George Orwell is turning in his grave...

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The Impact of Science on Society – Bertrand Russell

Take first the question of food and population. At present the population of the globe is increasing at the rate of about 20 millions...

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Encyclopædic hegemony: On the dominance of Wikipedia

Man muß das Wahre immer wiederholen, weil auch der Irrtum um uns her immer wieder gepredigt wird, und zwar nicht von einzelnen, sondern von...

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José Delgado, implants, and electromagnetic mind control: Stopping the furious Bull

José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado (August 8, 1915 – September 15, 2011) was a Spanish professor of physiology at Yale University, famed for his research...

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The nucleus accumbens, dopamine, and social learning

  Sagittal MRI slice with highlighting (red) indicating the nucleus accumbens. The nucleus accumbens (NAc or NAcc), also known as the accumbens nucleus, or...

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Prof. Rainer Mausfeld – Neoliberal indoctrination: Why do the lambs remain silent?

https://www.uni-kiel.de/psychologie/mausfeld/ Mausfeld focuses on perceptual psychology and also works on the theoretical foundations of experimental psychology and the psychology of understanding. He also deals...

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Erich Fromm – Disobedience: A Moral or Psychological Problem (1962)

Secondary literature Frie, R.. (2003). Erich Fromm and contemporary psychoanalysis: from modernism to postmodernism.. Psychoanalytic Review Plain numerical DOI: 10.1521/prev.90.6.855.28785 DOI URL directSciHub download...

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