We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. Miller argues here that we are badly mistaken in thinking this. Hundreds of recent studies in psychology tell a different story: that we all have serious character flaws that prevent us from being as good as we think we are - and that we do not even recognize that these flaws exist. But neither are most of us cruel or dishonest...
Carl Stumpfs Berliner Phonogrammarchiv (Schriftenreihe Der Carl Stumpf Gesellschaft, #6)
Der Band versammelt Vortrage, die auf der 4. Jahrestagung der Carl-Stumpf-Gesellschaft gehalten wurden. Die Tagung fand im Ethnologischen Museum Berlin und dort an dem von Carl Stumpf 1900 gegrundeten Phonogrammarchiv statt. Dementsprechend behandeln die meisten Beitrage Forschungen der Musikethnologie aus unterschiedlichen erkenntnistheoretischen Perspektiven. Der Band prasentiert sowohl aktuelle Arbeiten als auch Untersuchungen, die an die Forschungen von Stumpf oder seinen Schulern anknupfen...
Actions have consequences--and the ability to learn from them revolutionized life on earth. While it's easy enough to see that consequences are important (where would we be without positive reinforcement?), few have heard there's a science of consequences, with principles that affect us every day. Despite their variety, consequences appear to follow a common set of scientific principles and share some similar effects in the brain--such as the "pleasure centers." Nature and nurture always work...
Perception of Form and Forms of Perception
by R M Granovskaya, I J Bereznaya, and Alla N Grigorieva
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuroscience
It has been postulated that humans can differentiate between millions of gradations in color. Not surprisingly, no completely adequate, detailed catalog of colors has yet been devised, however the quest to understand, record, and depict color is as old as the quest to understand the fundamentals of the physical world and the nature of human consciousness. Rolf Kuehni's Color Space and Its Divisions: Color Order from Antiquity to the Present represents an ambitious and unprecedented history of ma...
Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to artistic representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the relationship between medium and content in representational art, which counters currently dominant theories that make attention to the former inevitably a distraction from attending to the latter. Through close analysis of paintings, photographs, and novels, Michael Morris proposes a new understanding of the real likenesses we encounter in representational art; what they a...
Mathematical Principles of Human Conceptual Behavior (Scientific Psychology)
by Ronaldo Vigo
The ability to learn concepts lies at the very core of human cognition, enabling us to efficiently classify, organize, identify, and store complex information. In view of the basic role that concepts play in our everyday physical and mental lives, the fields of cognitive science and psychology face three long standing challenges: discovering the laws that govern concept learning and categorization behavior in organisms, showing how they inform other areas of cognitive research, and describing th...
Cognition & Dream Research (Journal of Mind and Behavior, #7)
