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A systemic approach to the psychology of racial bias within individuals and society

Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023
Historically, the field of psychology has focused on racial biases at an individual level, considering the effects of various stimuli on individual racial attitudes and biases.
Allison L. Skinner‐Dorkenoo, Meghan George, J. Wages, Sirenia Sánchez, Sylvia P. Perry   +4 more
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Unconfirmed identity as an indicator of social failure of personality in different age periods [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Personal identity studies in psychology demonstrate the relevance of studying this phenomenon and the concomitant problem of selecting methods that would allow the researcher to obtain information about the underlying layers of the personality.
Makarevskaya Yuliya, Ryabikina Zinaida
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Statistics anxiety or statistics fear? A reinforcement sensitivity theory perspective on psychology students’ statistics anxiety, attitudes, and self-efficacy

European Journal of Psychology of Education
This research investigates the role of reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) in statistics education among two distinct samples of undergraduate psychology students.
Renata A. Mendes, Natalie J. Loxton, Jaimee Stuart, Alexander W. O’Donnell, Matthew J. Stainer   +4 more
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Affect and the computer game player: the effect of gender, personality, and game reinforcement structure on affective responses to computer game-play [PDF]

, 2006
Previous research on computer games has tended to concentrate on their more negative effects (e.g., addiction, increased aggression). This study departs from the traditional clinical and social learning explanations for these behavioral phenomena and ...
Chumbley, J, Griffiths, MD
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Food reinforcement architecture: A framework for impulsive and compulsive overeating and food abuse

Obesity, 2023
Few reward‐based theories address key drivers of susceptibility to food cues and consumption beyond fullness. Decision‐making and habit formation are governed by reinforcement‐based learning processes that, when overstimulated, can drive unregulated ...
K. Burger
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Associative Learning of Stimuli Paired and Unpaired With Reinforcement: Evaluating Evidence From Maggots, Flies, Bees, and Rats

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Finding rewards and avoiding punishments are powerful goals of behavior. To maximize reward and minimize punishment, it is beneficial to learn about the stimuli that predict their occurrence, and decades of research have provided insight into the brain ...
Michael Schleyer, Markus Fendt, Markus Fendt, Sarah Schuller, Bertram Gerber, Bertram Gerber, Bertram Gerber   +6 more
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Language(s) in education

DiSlaw
In this chapter the complexities and intricacies of the psychology of language in education are explored. The chapter draws primarily on the South African socio-political context to investigate shifting perceptions on language use in educational ...
Irma Eloff
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Learning to become an expert : reinforcement learning and the acquisition of perceptual expertise [PDF]

, 2009
To elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the development of perceptual expertise, we recorded ERPs while participants performed a categorization task. We found that as participants learned to discriminate computer-generated "blob'' stimuli, feedback
Holroyd, Clay, Krigolson, Olav E., Pierce, Lara J., Tanaka, James W.   +3 more
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Reinforcement Learning, Fast and Slow.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have driven impressive advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, exceeding human performance in domains ranging from Atari to Go to no-limit poker.
M. Botvinick, Samuel Ritter, Jane X. Wang, Z. Kurth-Nelson, C. Blundell, D. Hassabis   +5 more
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Risk as reward: Reinforcement sensitivity theory and psychopathic personality perspectives on everyday risk-taking [PDF]

, 2018
This study updates and synthesises research on the extent to which impulsive and antisocial disposition predicts everyday pro- and antisocial risk-taking behaviour.
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