Engerl auf dem Packerl

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Die moderne Psychologie hat darüber natürlich schon nachgedacht: Ob die Geschichte mit dem Christkind, das die Geschenke bringt, nicht einen ganz miesen Vertrauensbruch in frühester Kindheit darstellt. Kinder sehen das anders: Sie freuen sich aufs Christkind. Wer ist nicht selbst am Heiligen Abend zum Fenster gelaufen, einen Zipfel vom Davonfliegenden zu erspähen? Und wenn es das Christkind altersbedingt nicht mehr gab, hat man das eh schon länger geahnt. Der Schock war überschaubar. Heute wissen Kinder immer früher (TV, Werbung), dass das Präsente ausliefernde Christkind >>>

Psychologie im Supermarkt: Gutes Gefühl, voller Einkaufskorb

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Der Käufer wird über alle Sinne beeinflusst, allerdings ohne es zu bemerken. „Unser Gehirn verarbeitet nur einen Bruchteil, vor allem auch diese kryptische Bewertung“, sagt Häusel. „Was da alles passiert, merken die Leute nicht.“ Schließlich ist der Mensch so programmiert, dass er zugreifen will, wenn er etwas Appetitliches sieht oder riecht. Das machen sich Betreiber von Supermärkten zunutze. „Die Waren werden so angeboten, dass das Wasser im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes im Mund zusammenläuft“, bestätigt Häusel. Ein schöner Käse etwa oder ein knuspriges Brötchen reize zum Reinbeißen >>>

NJ Psychology Practice Revealed Patients’ Mental Disorders in Debt Lawsuits

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When a New Jersey lawyer named Philip received legal papers last year informing him that his former psychologist’s practice was suing him over an unpaid bill, he was initially upset they could not work out a payment arrangement outside of court. It was only later, Philip said in an interview, that he scanned the papers again and realized something else: The psychology group to which he’d confided his innermost feelings had included his mental health diagnosis and treatments he received in publicly filed court documents. “It turned my life upside down,” he said. Short Hills Associates in >>>

Rangers boss Warburton dismisses Hibs manager’s "amateur psychology"

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However, Warburton brushed aside the latest inflammatory remarks by Stubbs - and insisted he was more bothered at having been unable to buy his wife a Christmas present. "That's a major concern,” he said. “I'm getting away quick this afternoon into town. That's the only crisis I am dealing with." Stubbs has repeatedly commented on Rangers during the 2015/16 campaign and has visibly irked his counterpart on occasion with statements about his position being “easy” and his player budget being four times larger. However, Warburton, whose side take on their >>>

Tania Lombrozo

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Tania Lombrozo is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos Culture. She is an associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an affiliate of the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences. Lombrozo directs the Concepts and Cognition Lab, where she and her students study aspects of human cognition at the intersection of philosophy and psychology, including the drive to explain and its relationship to understanding, various aspects of causal and moral reasoning and all kinds of learning. Lombrozo is the recipient >>>