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Há 23 horas · Albert Einstein is credited with more famous quotations than he actually came up with. / George Rinhart/GettyImages. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and ...
Há 5 dias · Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN: 9781403917652; 256pp.; Price: £53.00. Katharine Hodgkin's Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography is a welcome, thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of the cultural history of madness. It partly draws on Michael Macdonald's seminal work on the popular beliefs and social practices ...
Há 23 horas · Substantial attention has been paid to the language of mental ill health, but the generic terms used to refer to it–“mental illness”, “psychiatric condition”, “mental health problem” and so forth–have largely escaped empirical scrutiny. We examined changes in the prevalence of alternative terms in two large English language text corpora from 1940 to 2019. Twenty-four terms were ...
Há 23 horas · Falsifiability is a deductive standard of evaluation of scientific theories and hypotheses, introduced by the philosopher of science Karl Popper in his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934). [B] A theory or hypothesis is falsifiable (or refutable) if it can be logically contradicted by an empirical test .
Há 4 dias · Dirac established the most general theory of quantum mechanics and discovered the relativistic equation for the electron, which now bears his name. The remarkable notion of an antiparticle to each fermion particle – e.g. the positron as antiparticle to the electron – stems from his equation.
Há 4 dias · t. e. In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental discomfort people feel when their beliefs and actions are inconsistent and contradictory, ultimately encouraging some change (often either in their beliefs or actions) to align better and reduce this dissonance. [1] Relevant items of information include peoples ...
Há 5 dias · Articles. The Insanity Defense: Historical Precedent and Modern Application. This article provides an overview of the historical origins of the defense and its current application. The word “insanity” has a special meaning in the judicial system, one that is different than that used by medical professionals.
