Tag: conscious
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Stereotyping. Not us?
Recent studies into how human beings think about members of other social groups reveal that biases sometimes operate beyond our conscious control. Called implicit bias, the tendency to be suspicious of people we perceive as strangers or "not like us" probably evolved early in our ancestry, when small groups of humans competed against each other…
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No coincidences…
Nothing Comes “Out of the Blue”. Freud discovered that there are no accidents and no coincidences. Even “random-seeming” feelings, ideas, impulses, wishes, events and actions carry important, often unconscious, meanings. (1) The unconscious rules our lives. And even though we feel the cosmos is ruled by rules we do not yet understand them. Perhaps sensing…
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Sleep. Learn how to walk.
A University of Iowa study has found twitches made during sleep activate the brains of mammals differently than movements made while awake. Researchers say the findings show twitches during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep comprise a different class of movement and provide further evidence that sleep twitches activate circuits throughout the developing brain. In this…
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