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Roles of survival situation and personality temperament in the relationship between life stress and depression of higher vocational college students
BackgroundHigher vocational college students face more life stress, which can easily result in depression and hinder their healthy growth. This study...
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Survival processing advantage demonstrated with virtual reality-based survival environment: A promising tool for survival processing research
Many studies have been conducted to demonstrate the survival processing advantage (SPA) as an evolutionary-oriented memory effect. But few studies...
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Survival processing occupies the central bottleneck of cognitive processing: A psychological refractory period analysis
Words judged for relevance in a survival situation are remembered better than words judged for relevance in a nonsurvival context. This survival...
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Wisdom of crowds and collective decision-making in a survival situation with complex information integration
BackgroundThe wisdom of crowds and collective decision-making are important tools for integrating information between individuals, which can exceed...
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Physiology of a Traumatic Situation
A traumatic situation is characterized by the so-called traumatic clamp. Due to the traumatic clamp, there is an overload of the individual co**...
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Ratings of survival-related dimensions for a set of 732 words, their relationships with other psycholinguistic variables and memory performance
When words are processed for their fitness-relevance (e.g., for finding food), they are remembered better than when they are processed for...
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Survival Migrancy and the Political Self: A Nascent Construct from Pastoral Care With Venezuelan Men in Ecuador
When men migrate from Venezuela for survival, they bring with them a forming political self related to local daily encounters with threatening...
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Impact on the survival and development of small and medium-sized enterprises in China
With fierce market competition, for medium and small scaled businesses the innovation of the business model is meant as a significant method to...
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Creativity as Resistance for Survival: The Anticolonial Indigenous Rap Group “Oz Guarani”
This chapter aims to expose some of the initial reflections and findings achieved through wider research that has been conducted by Nigro under the...
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Effect of cognitive load and working memory capacity on the efficiency of discovering better alternatives: A survival analysis
Why do humans attempt to discover better alternatives to solve a problem even when they know the way to solve it? This question is related to the...
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Conclusion: Intelligence Does Not Inhere Within the Individual but Rather in Person x Task x Situation Interactions
Historically, intelligence has been viewed as a trait—a characteristic of a person that is at least partially heritable and that is relatively...
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How can I use it? The role of functional fixedness in the survival-processing paradigm
After imagining being stranded in the grasslands of a foreign land without any basic survival material and rating objects with respect to their...
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Congruence Effects on Medicinal Plant Recall: An Evolutionary Perspective
Psychological mechanisms evolved in the ancestral past as they helped the first hominids to survive and reproduce. A product of this evolution is the...
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Querida America, Testimonios of Faith, Solidarity, and Survival Along the U.S./Mexico Border
This chapter shares experiences and narratives from Central and South American asylum seekers subjected to the U.S.’s MPP/Remain in Mexico policy and...
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Surviving with story characters: What do we remember?
Readers simulate story characters’ emotions, memories, and perceptual experiences. The current study consists of three experiments that investigated...
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A set of 750 words in Spanish characterized in two survival-related dimensions: avoiding death and locating nourishment
With the aim of finding quantitative indicators of the survival relevance for a set of concrete concepts, a subjective rating task was administered...
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The Consciousness Revolutions From Amoeba Awareness to Human Emancipation
This book is about all things consciousness, great and small. It starts by pointing to the key characteristic of consciousness, without realizing...
