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Answered: Us school shooting incidents

There are no easy answers for this. I know a lot of social psychologists are wrecking their brains on the topic. A free association of factors involved would be an individualist culture, an age or ...

Answered: Can you have an evil twin without being evil?

Yes, Twin Studies are a developed paradigm in psychology useful in examining questions of nature/nurture. Many human traits often exhibit a scale where monozigotic twins are at the top, followed by ...

Answered: The test period

Leaving the books after 30 minutes is fine. The trick is getting back to them. I don't know if your problem is lack of concentration or lack of will or maybe you're just not interested in the subjects ...

Answered: Deadlines

Of course; Reward. Rewards are a much better incentive than fear-of-punishment for conditioning behaviour. This might be useful. It turns out there's an innate fundamental asymmetry in how ...

Answered: Take someone of my head - How?

lilly's answer seems to cover most corners, though I just have to correct her - it's been empirically proven that people can consciously forget if they try not to think of something, despite it ...

Answered: Freud's affair implications on theories

Nope. One must always remember to distinguish the artist from his art.

Answered: Swimming in cold water

I'm not entirely sure I understand the question properly, but you might want to look up issues of sensory perception, habituation, and werber/fechner/stevens's law.

Answered: Exams panic

Behavioural therapy. Very high success rates in treating such anxieties, and it usually doesn't even take too long.

Answered: MATRIX & philosophy

I believe it was Alfred Whitehead who said that "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." The main plot ...

Answered: Backing up 10GB

I'm using mozy backup which seems to work pretty well. It has built in encryption or you can use your own. Perpetual beta means new features all the time, but it's pretty good. Main flaw: only ...

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