Category: <span>General psychology</span>

General psychology

Wake up: The ‘Ascending reticular activating system’ (ARAS) and its role in consciousness & attention

The reticular formation is essential for governing some of the basic functions of higher organisms and is one of the phylogenetically oldest portions of...

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Satyāgraha

Satyāgraha (Sanskrit: सत्याग्रह) is a composite lexeme composed of the word satya (meaning “truth”) and agraha (“holding firmly to”). It also refers to a...

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Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time is a work of history written by Carroll Quigley. The book covers the...

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H.G. Wells – The new world order

Originally published in 1940 – republished in 2007 under ISBN 1-59986-727-3.

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The opportunistic marketable/salable character

Excerpt from Prof. Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion (1950). (Op.cit. p.99): “The attitude common to the teachings of the founders of all great Eastern...

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Change blindness

Change blindness is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it....

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Coup d’état

A coup d’état also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe, or an overthrow, is an illegal and overt seizure of a state...

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The structure of power

Vitali, S., Glattfelder, J. B., & Battiston, S.. (2011). The network of Global corporate control. PLoS ONE Plain numerical DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025995DOI URLdirectSciHub download Heemskerk,...

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Testing Theories of American Politics

When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to...

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Supernormal stimuli

A supernormal stimulus or superstimulus is an exaggerated version of a stimulus to which there is an existing response tendency, or any stimulus that...

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