hot days

This computer-based task requires participants to sort a series of stimuli (as rapidly and accurately as possible) into simple and combined categories while their reaction time is measured (in milliseconds).

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f social neuroscienceSocial neuroscienceAn interdisciplinary field concerned with identifying the neural processes underlying social behavior and cognition.

e scientific method

riding in competitive races appeared to improve riders’ times by about 20-30 seconds every mile compared to when they rode the same courses alone. Triplett suspected that the riders’ enha

For example, someone may have a positive, explicit attitude toward his job; however, nonconsciously, he may have a lot of negative associations with it (e.g., having to wake up early, the long commute, the office heating is broken) which results in an implicitly negative attitude.

with a greater tendency to shoot unarmed Black targets in a video game

and behave.

. Hot cognition refers to the mental processes that are influenced by desires and feelings.

For example, our own predictions of our future academic performance are more accurate than peers’ predictions of our performance, a

a decision, we predict our future behaviors or feelings in order to choose the best course of action.

social cognition

Storytelling may be the most powerful form of self-transformation that human beings have ever invented.

us egoEgoSigmund Freud’s conception of an executive self in the personality. Akin to this module’s notion of “the I,” Freud imagined the ego as observing outside reality, engaging in rational though, and coping with the competing demands of inner desires and moral standards.

Many children begin to use words such as “me” and “mine” in the second year of life, suggesting that the I now has linguistic labels that can be applied reflexively to itself: I call myself “me.

we often try to manage, discipline, refine, improve, or develop the self.

How does a person apprehend and understand who he or she is?