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Are there psychological theories analogous to Liebig’s Law of the Minimum that explain "Structural Personality Collapse"?
Title: Are there psychological theories analogous to Liebig’s Law of the Minimum that explain "Structural Personality Collapse"?
I have been analyzing the idea that human personality ...
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Are there any risks associated with using amplitude-modulated music to increase focus?
I am curious about the research on amplitude-modulated music, brain-wave entrainment, and neural phase locking recently published in Nature (similar research was also published by Grover et. al. (2020)...
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Parkinson's disease vaccine design and construction
Parkinson disease
Alpha synuclein protein
Can we design and construct a Parkinson’s disease vaccine?
Chemical structure modification in alpha-synuclein protein will assist in Designing and ...
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Quantifying the Existential Break: An Algebraic Approach to Identity Crisis and Delinquent Behavior [closed]
I am currently developing a conceptual framework for my Master’s Thesis that attempts to synthesize Self Psychology and Criminological Neutralization Theory into a predictive equation. I call this the ...
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Does human mind work like prediction/llm or causal way?
Like, I say a sentence, when I begin to say it, I don't know how it will end. No, the sentence I just said, "I don't know how it will end." When I started saying it, I didn't know that the ...
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Can an LLM who mimics a person's behavior near identically be considered a surrogate for that person? [closed]
Current state of the art brain-computer-interface (BCI) probes only around 1,000 neurons out of an estimated 86,000,000,000 neurons in the human brain. It will likely be a long time before it is ...
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BPD: what if we’ve been modelling it one layer too high?
I just published a falsifiable hypothesis in Frontiers in Psychology and I’m explicitly inviting critical feedback:
Integrating autonomic and affective pathways in borderline personality disorder: the ...
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Psychology of people who are not empathetic to animals
My parents always told me that a major flag on if someone is good in the dating world is if he is empathetic to animals.They have told me someone has a major red flag if someone doesnt feel pity or ...
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What are the differences between the diseases OCD and OCPD?
I want to know the difference between the diseases OCD and OCPD in Mental Health ??
After going through a lot of research from the Internet about these diseases, I came to know the following things.
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When people "hit a wall" do they tend to "either do more of the same things, or they do less of the same things"?
When people, teams, and organizations, whenever they hit a wall, they tend to do one of two things: they either do more of the same things, or they do less of the same things.
But what you very ...
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What behaviors do narcississts and schizophrenics NOT share?
Many disorders can easily be mistaken for narcissism by a lay person, one of them being schizophrenia. Annoyingly though, people can suffer from both disorders at once.
Barring a brain scan, how do ...
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Are there academic critiques of Thomas Szasz’s claim that behavior—no matter how persistent or guilt-laden—cannot constitute mental disorder?
Thomas Szasz argued that no form of behavior or misbehavior—regardless of how persistent, distressing, or accompanied by guilt or shame—should be classified as a mental disorder. On this view, even ...
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Which types of memory are most affected by benzodiazepines and for how long?
Benzodiazepines are well known to cause anterograde amnesia, but I am interested in a clearer breakdown of which specific memory systems are most affected and the mechanisms involved.
From a patient ...
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Optical-illusion equivalent of non-transitive dice?
In the above well-known optical illusion — the Müller-Lyer lines — one line appears longer than another, while in fact they have the same length.
There's also a well-known construction where you can ...
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Humans Can Detect Gazes from Outside Their Visual Field — Is There Scientific Evidence or an Explanation?
It’s a common experience: you’re observing someone from behind or from the side — well outside their direct line of sight — yet they somehow seem to “feel” your gaze and turn toward you. Sometimes ...
