psychology

Psychology

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Sections

I am hereby sorting Psychology into two major areas (there may be others):

• Introspective Psychology is concerned with introspection as an analytical tool, with thoughts and ideas, and with the nature of the mind
• Behavioral Psychology studies external behavior rather than inner mental states, and often involves detailed statistical analysis; the mind as machine

Conditions

Local Articles

• autism
• hyperacusis is "an inability to tolerate everyday sounds"

Wikipedia links

• Asperger syndrome
• gender identity disorder (a.k.a. gender dysphoria)
• Tourette syndrome

Related Areas

• Parenting

Reference

• Psychology: Wikipedia

News

• 2007-02-12 The mind, as it evolves "Depression as a survival tool?": on the emerging field of evolutionary psychology
• 2006-09-01 A Nation of Neurotics? Blame the Puppet Masters? by Carl Zimmer
• 2006-02-16 'Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions
• 2006-02-15 How 'hot' emotional brain interferes with 'cool' processing
• 2006-01-18 chimpanzees lack altruism
• 2005-02-09 Smart People Choke Under Pressure

Notes

Tests and scales for evaluating psychological traits:

• Tellegen Absorption Scale - "correlates aspects of spirituality and altered states of consciousness" - see [1].
• Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire - "a measure of the need for social contact and openness to communication" - seems to be used a lot, but I can't find the actual questionnaire
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• see also Wikipedia:Category:Psychological tests
• online tests:
  • Personal DNA