PSYCH291 Chapter Notes - Chapter 02: Downings, Psychological Resistance, Serendipity
6 Oct 2013
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The difference between descriptive and prescriptive laws (i. e. , the difference between what people ought to do and what people actually do) Scientists and laypeople alike often have preconceived notions about the way to discover what is true: these preconceived notions sometimes get in the way of accurate scientific discoveries. He who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you poet e. e. Cummings: seemed to mean that it is easy to ruin a wonderful experience by overanalyzing it, scientific research has confirmed it. Rupert is going to fall in love with rita tomorrow, but they could identify a long list of conditions that would make this much more likely than usual. On the basis of scientific studies of interpersonal attraction, we know that people gravitate toward other people who: Research also shows that we are strongly attracted to others whose earlobe shapes.
