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  2. Klaus Scherer - Wikipedia

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    Klaus Scherer. Klaus Rainer Scherer (born 1943) is professor emeritus of psychology and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva. He is a specialist in the psychology of emotion. [1] He is known for editing the Handbook of Affective Sciences and several other influential articles on emotions, expression, personality and music.

  3. Systems psychology - Wikipedia

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    Systems psychology is a branch of both theoretical psychology and applied psychology that studies human behaviour and experience as complex systems. It is inspired by systems theory and systems thinking, and based on the theoretical work of Roger Barker, Gregory Bateson, Humberto Maturana and others. [1] Groups and individuals are considered as ...

  4. Theoretical psychology - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Theoretical psychology is concerned with theoretical and philosophical aspects of psychology. It is an interdisciplinary field with a wide scope of study. It focuses on combining and incorporating existing and developing theories of psychology non-experimentally. Theoretical psychology originated from the philosophy of science, with logic ...

  5. Theory-theory - Wikipedia

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    Theory-theory. The theory-theory (or 'theory theory ') is a scientific theory relating to the human development of understanding about the outside world. [1] This theory asserts that individuals hold a basic or 'naïve' theory of psychology ("folk psychology") to infer the mental states of others, [1] such as their beliefs, desires or emotions ...

  6. Leo Hurvich - Wikipedia

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    Leo Maurice Hurvich (September 11, 1910 – April 25, 2009) was an American psychologist who conducted research into human color vision. He was married to fellow cognitive psychologist Dorothea Jameson. The pair collaborated on much of their work, including an elaboration on the opponent process theory.

  7. Straw man - Wikipedia

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    The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent's proposition.

  8. Cannon–Bard theory - Wikipedia

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    Cannon–Bard theory. The thalamic region of the brain. The main concepts of the Cannon–Bard theory are that emotional expression results from the function of hypothalamic structures, and emotional feeling results from stimulations of the dorsal thalamus. The physiological changes and subjective feeling of an emotion in response to a stimulus ...

  9. Oppositional defiant disorder - Wikipedia

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    This suggests that the process of clinically relevant research driving nosology, and vice versa, has ensured that the future will bring greater understanding of ODD. Epidemiology. ODD is a pattern of negative, defiant, disobedient, and hostile behavior, and it is one of the most prevalent disorders from preschool age to adulthood.