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Entries rooted in United States and United Kingdom.
5 entries
Nature versus Nurture
The old contest between biology and upbringing dissolves once behavioral genetics shows that genes and environment do not add, they interact.
10 min
ConceptReliability and Validity
The two axes of measurement quality: reliability is whether a measure is consistent, validity is whether it measures the thing it claims to.
8 min
ConceptThe Adolescent Brain
The theory that teenage recklessness comes from timing: a reward and social system that matures early, running ahead of a self-control system that matures late.
10 min
Mental modelThe Big Five Personality Traits
Five broad, statistically independent dimensions, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, that keep reappearing whenever personality description is factor-analyzed.
9 min
ConceptTheory of Mind
The capacity to attribute mental states, beliefs, desires, intentions, to others and to grasp that theirs can differ from your own and from reality.
9 min