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OK, I’m back. September: do your worst! One of my favourite things at the evolutionary end of Psychology is when the researchers look at some component of our mental lives, ... persuasiveness of the portraits of psychology we get there.

Impulsivity seems to be a hottish topic in psychology. Cognitive scientists are exploring its biological mechanisms, the brain regions and neurotransmitters involved.

The guest was Steven Pinker (Psychology, Harvard), author of several important books on language and thought, and also of The Better Angels of our Nature, for which I have a soft ... It’s the latest turn in what has been called the ‘Replication

Thus, it seems that Hughes figures the pre-psychology of his relationship with Plath in terms of her being a victim and him just being bored.

It is Idiots strutting towards their own built-in obsolescence, accompanied by the sound of a Canadian psychology professor falling down a flight of marble stairs, pitch-shifted into a

His other books include Plato Republic Book 10 (1988), The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (2002), Greek Laughter: a Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity

Shakespeare was clearly familiar with the principles of faculty psychology handed down to the Renaissance from antiquity, according to which “imagination” is the part of the soul responsible for creating “phantasms”

His other books include Plato Republic Book 10 (1988), The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (2002), Greek Laughter: a Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity

Shakespeare was clearly familiar with the principles of faculty psychology handed down to the Renaissance from antiquity, according to which “imagination” is the part of the soul responsible for creating “phantasms”

nothing anachronistic about the distinction between causing and compelling for a premodern setting: it goes back to Aristotle, and Luther and Calvin developed their psychology of action by means of a