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Fifty terms to avoid in psychology and psychiatry?
The excellent blog Mind Hacks shared a recent Frontiers in Psychology paper entitled “Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases”. As mentioned in the Mind Hacks post, the advice in this article may not always be spot-on, but it’s still worth reading. Here are…
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Why does dreaming sometimes produce Inception-style time distortions?
I answered the following question on Quora: Last night I slept for 8.5 hours and had a dream that lasted for a month. It was full of incredible landscapes, animals, and interesting interactions with people. I woke to my alarm at 9:30, silenced it, then went back to my dream for a week before waking…
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Why can most people identify a color without a reference but not a musical note?
[I was asked this on Quora. Here’s a slightly modified version of my answer.] This is an excellent question! I’m pretty sure there is not yet a definitive answer, but I suspect that the eventual answer will involve two factors: The visual system in humans is much more highly developed than the auditory system. Human…