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Member Since June 5, 2006
28, Male, Israel

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What is the psychological function of rituals in ...

It's interesting that when you look closely Jung and Freud's vision of the role religious rituals play are not very different at all, just while Jung embraces it, Freud is very critical of it.

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What is the psychological function of rituals in ...

The Freud-era answer in short is that religious behavior is very much akin to Obsessive-Compulsive behavior. People have irrational compulsions that they later ground with counterintuitive, delusional ...

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Us school shooting incidents

There are no easy answers for this. I know a lot of social psychologists are wrecking their brains on the topic. A free association of factors involved would be an individualist culture, an age or ...

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Can you have an evil twin without being evil?

Yes, Twin Studies are a developed paradigm in psychology useful in examining questions of nature/nurture. Many human traits often exhibit a scale where monozigotic twins are at the top, followed by ...

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The test period

Leaving the books after 30 minutes is fine. The trick is getting back to them. I don't know if your problem is lack of concentration or lack of will or maybe you're just not interested in the subjects ...

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Deadlines

Of course; Reward. Rewards are a much better incentive than fear-of-punishment for conditioning behaviour. This might be useful. It turns out there's an innate fundamental asymmetry in how ...

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Take someone of my head - How?

lilly's answer seems to cover most corners, though I just have to correct her - it's been empirically proven that people can consciously forget if they try not to think of something, despite it ...

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