Someone, somewhere, can look you straight in the eye and say "I've got a PhD in booty call research".A new study just published online in the Journal of Sex Research investigates where the booty call falls on the spectrum of relationships.Positioning the Booty-Call Relationship on the Spectrum of Relationships: Sexual but More Emotional Than One-Night StandsPeter K. Jonason; Norman P. Li; Jessica
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July 30, 2010
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July 29, 2010
Global vs Local Cognitive Style in Autism: Central Coherence
The cognitive style known as central coherence is receiving increased attention across a variety of clinical neuroscience disorders. I had not been familiar with this concept of central coherence. Essentially, central coherence describes a style of thinking on a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum, you have individuals who tend to think globally or using a gestalt perspective.
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September 30, 2009
Bullying, Hypocrisy, and Church: An Asperger Perspective on Religion
In his most recent post, John Elder Robison asks why many people on the spectrum reject religion. Personally, my relationship with religion has always been highly complex. As I wrote previously, when I was young, my challenges drove me to try to understand things, especially things relating to people. So, I set out to study the human condition. What makes human beings tick
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May 27, 2009
Pathological Anger, Existentially Speaking
Anger is an emotion that is familiar to everyone. An episode of anger may dissipate quickly and harmlessly or evolve into a murderous rage. Between the benign and malignant end points in this spectrum, a seething, chronic anger may come to dominate a person's thinking, feeling, and behavior.
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May 20, 2009
Some People Really ‘Never Forget A Face:’ Understanding Extraordinary Face Recognition Ability
Psychologists have discovered that some people have an extraordinary ability to recognize faces, a group that they call "super-recognizers," who can easily recognize someone they met in passing, even many years later. The findings imply that face recognition may vary more than previously understood, and may be on a spectrum, with "super-recognizers" at the high end, and those with face blindness,
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