The smoke-detector principle explains why biological defense mechanisms—such as anxiety, pain, fever, and vomiting—frequently trigger false alarms. Because the cost of a false alarm is minimal compared to the catastrophic cost of missing a real threat, natural selection optimizes systems to be over-responsive
Contents1 Is There an Organismic Self?2 Goldstein: The Organism as an Integrated Individual3 Rogers Made an Important Distinction Between the Organism and the Self-Concept4 Rogers’ Incongruence Is Especially Relevant5 Neisser: The Ecological Self Exists Before Read more
This article introduces the idea of intuition and asks if our intuition can both help and mislead us?
This article explains Pavlov's Classical Conditioning, and uses his dog-training analogy to introduce the theory, before explaining the differences when applied to people.
