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Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviours.

Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of mental functions and behaviours. Psychology has the immediate goal of understanding individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases, and by many accounts it ultimately aims to benefit society. In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is called a psychologist and can be classified as a social, behavioural, or cognitive scientist. Psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behaviour, while also exploring the physiological and neurobiological processes that underlie certain cognitive functions and behaviours.

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Are there exceptionless psychological laws?

Are there exceptionless psychological laws, not probabilistic and/or not ceteris paribus? The idea that there are seems prima facie wrong and silly. Suppose that you are running a psychology experiment in which you ask participants to choose between…
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Is there any serious overlap between Philosophy and Psychology?

To explain further: would, say, a modern philosopher with a PhD be well-versed in modern psychology? Since philosophy inevitably investigates the mind and the behavior of people, and that most philosophy degrees require courses that bear tremendous…
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Is our tolerance for pain subjective or objective?

Imagine you are part of a competition where you put your hand in a pot of water and it is heated. Your pain threshold is quantified as the temperature (T) where you withdraw your hand. The person with the highest pain threshold wins a rediculous sum…
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Altruistic acts lead to an erosion of motivation. A word to describe this?

Is there perhaps a word or phrase that describes negative selfless behavior? Generic Behavior: If a person looks after the needs of others to such an extent that their own needs are not met then not only will their own well-being suffer but…
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Are there public health issues around mental health?

Mental health seem to be increasingly in the news much more so than twenty or thirty years ago when they were seen merely as pathologies. When it was discovered that many diseases were caused by bacteria and viruses there were public health…
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Is life about effort and reward marathons?

This question is perhaps better suited to the statistics stack exchange. Or, even better, to the psychology stack exchange. It is about how many people, even across sexes and ages, engage in pleasure marathons. This, is, experiences, where a person,…
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Does anxiety contradict trust?

First of all, how can we even define trust? The most common definition, I guess, is being sure that a person or idea will never fail us. But being sure doesn't really allow for anxiety. And here, my main question comes in. In everyday life, we often…
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Do people in life, engage, in reward, competition

This post is perhaps better suited to the psychology stack exchange. It is about whether people in life engage in reward competition. That is, given, an amount of effort, to obtain something, can a person, opt, for, choosing, the given reward, for…
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How can one know if he/she is justified in believing X if it is not intuitive?

How intuitive a statement is is not generally taken as evidence to the truth of a statement. After all, it's a psychological state, and it makes no sense for a psychological state to influence the truth of something out there in the world such as…
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Is there a philosophy that suggests a motive to achieve great things which is deeper than one's own self?

Is there a philosophy that suggests a motive to achieve great things which is deeper than one's feeling, emotions, oersonal benefit, desires, etc? I have always wanted to do huge things. Be the best at something. Be remembered as a "great". And I'm…
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Definition of A Psychopath

This definition has arisen in an answer for a previous question in this community, so I very much need to know the definition specifications for the term, as I am confused at its foundation. It is claimed to be an individual that has no empathy for…
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History repeats itself

People say “History repeats itself”, more often when injustice, human relationships, phenomena fall under the same pattern we argue over this. But why don't people accept things so easily when something goes wrong for their actions? Is there any…
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Why does everyone think that it was better "in the good old days"?

Everyone seems to think that everything was better back when they were doing it, and now everything is much worse. It's mostly not true, when it comes down to facts, yet people never say that things are better now then they where before (unless they…
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What is the Special Flower problem?

I feel like this came to me in a dream, but I remember reading something about something called the Special Flower Paradox, where everyone thinks that since they are subtly subverting from the norm that they are somehow superior to the normal…
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Quantum Psychology and Law of Attraction

This caught my attention So I am reading "The beginners guide to Quantum Psychology" by Stephen.H Wolinsky and he talks about different dimensions and how you can not mix two different dimensions. His example is that imaging that you are earning…
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