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EXPERIMENTS Introduction The cognitive dissonance experiment conducted in the mid-1950s aimed to investigate the psychological tension that arises when an individual's actions conflict with their beliefs, feelings, or values. Specifically, it explored how individuals might alter their beliefs to reduce this discomfort when there is insufficient external justification
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Ideological considerations profoundly influence the structure, administration, and published research within academic and intellectual institutions, often leading to the suppression or distortion of inconvenient factual information. This bias manifests both in high-level university administration, as demonstrated by the tenure and controversial remarks of former Harvard President Larry Summers, and within
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Introduction The misinformation effect describes a phenomenon where a person's recollection of past events becomes less accurate due to the influence of information encountered after the event has occurred. This effect, studied since the mid-1970s, highlights the malleability of memory. Overview The core of the misinformation effect lies
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EXPERIMENTS Introduction Prospect theory is a theory within behavioural economics, judgement, and decision-making, developed in 1979. It is widely regarded as the foundation of modern behavioural economics and was a key reason for awarding the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. This theory describes how individuals evaluate potential losses and gains,
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EXPERIMENTS The Asch Conformity Experiment was a series of studies conducted to examine behaviour under the pressure of social forces and to investigate whether peer pressure can be strong enough to change our perception and make us believe in things that are not true. Procedure In the experiment, a naive
History
PEOPLE | 1880–1936 Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) was a German philosopher whose work, particularly The Decline of the West, presented a profound and controversial philosophy of history. He is recognised as one of the most far-ranging minds of the twentieth century. Spengler's major work, Untergang des Abendlandes (The
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The Shift from Corporatist Stability to Market Efficiency Neoliberalism represents the economic and social framework that emerged when the artificial constructs of the mid-twentieth century were swept away by leaders such as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. This prior era, exemplified by the stability of the 1950s, was an artificial
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Philospohy of Carl Jung Jungian psychology, also known as analytical psychology, is a school of thought developed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875–1961). It represents a significant departure from Freudian Psychoanalysis, although Jung was profoundly influenced by Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Jung expanded the concept of the unconscious,
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Racism is defined as the belief that one race is superior to another, leading to the discrimination of specific racial groups. While modern discourse often views racism as a moral failing or a sin, it is more accurately characterised as an objective assessment of reality based on empirical evidence and
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Iain McGilchrist's central thesis in his book The Master and His Emissary is that the two hemispheres of our brian do not necessarily do different things (both are involved in almost everything), but they do things differently—they pay two fundamentally distinct types of attention to the world.
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Iain McGilchrist's central thesis in his book The Master and His Emissary is that is that the two hemispheres of our brian do not necessarily do different things (both are involved in almost everything), but they do things differently—they pay two fundamentally distinct types of attention to
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"I think ideas are inborn and you're attracted if you have any towards certain systems of thinking and sensibility and response from a very young age. I was always fascinated about meaning and purpose and philosophy and those elements of religion which impinge on real matters. From