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3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
131 results for "cognitive enhancement" — page 3 of 7
G_4_13 — HADD and Agency Detection — Why We See Beings Everywhere
The Hyperactive Agency Detection Device (HADD) — a term coined by cognitive scientist Justin Barrett (2000) building on work by Stewart Guthrie (1993) and Pascal Boyer (2001) — refers to the proposed cognitive mechanism
T_2_11 — Psychology of Aging and Gerontology
The psychology of aging examines cognitive, emotional, and social changes across the adult lifespan, integrating insights from developmental psychology, neuroscience, and gerontology. A central distinction in cognitive a
T_3_15 — Decision Fatigue & Ego Depletion
Decision fatigue describes the deterioration of decision quality after a long session of decision-making, while ego depletion refers to the broader theory that self-control and willpower draw upon a limited mental resour
T_3_18 — Anomalistic Psychology
Anomalistic psychology is the scientific study of extraordinary human experiences — including apparent telepathy, precognition, ghost sightings, alien abduction reports, near-death experiences, and other phenomena tradit
T_5_04 — Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
The psychology of religion investigates why humans believe in supernatural agents, how religious practices affect cognition and well-being, and what psychological functions religion serves. The field was inaugurated by W
B_5_06 — Deification of Natural Phenomena: Thunder, Earthquakes, Disease as Entities
Across virtually every documented human culture, natural phenomena — storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, epidemics, drought — have been personified as intentional agents: gods, demons, or spirits with desires, emoti
ZD_5_14 — Data Visualization: The Science and Art of Visual Communication
Data visualization — the graphical representation of information and data — sits at the intersection of statistics, cognitive science, design, and computer science. The field's modern foundations were laid by Jacques Ber
ZD_4_07 — Human-Computer Interaction
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) studies how people interact with computers and designs systems that are effective, efficient, and satisfying to use. HCI draws on computer science, cognitive psychology, design, and ergon
INTERDOC_69 — Suppression and Cascade Risk as Entangled Institutional Failure Modes
Two phenomena that appear to belong to different domains — knowledge suppression (why institutions reject inconvenient truths) and cascade collapse (why complex civilizations fail catastrophically) — share a common deep
Z_3_15 — Genetics of Intelligence: Polygenicity, GWAS, and the Heritability Debate
The genetics of intelligence — attempts to identify the specific genetic variants that influence individual differences in cognitive ability — represents one of the most complex and contentious areas in human genetics. H
Z_3_01 — Genetics of Brain Development — ASPM, Microcephalin, HAR1
The human brain is approximately three times larger than expected for a primate of our body size, with a vastly expanded cerebral cortex containing ~86 billion neurons. Identifying the genetic basis for this extraordinar
K_4_12 — Noosphere — Teilhard de Chardin, Vernadsky, and the Thinking Layer
The noosphere ("sphere of mind") is a concept developed independently by Russian geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky and French paleontologist-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in the 1920s, describing a layer of collective hu
K_2_05 — Unconscious Processing
The cognitive unconscious — mental processes that influence behavior, emotion, and decision-making without reaching conscious awareness — is one of the most empirically robust phenomena in psychology and neuroscience. Fa
K_5_04 — Neuroscience of Belief
Belief — the mental state of holding something to be true — is a cornerstone of conscious experience, shaping perception, memory, emotion, decision-making, and behavior. The neuroscience of belief has revealed that belie
ZB_1_12 — Animal Play Behavior
Play behavior — voluntary, seemingly purposeless activity involving modified versions of functional behaviors — is observed across mammals, many birds, and some reptiles, fish, and invertebrates, yet remains one of the m
ZC_1_01 — Social Psychology — Conformity, Obedience, and Group Dynamics
Social psychology examines how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts. Landmark experiments by Milgram (obedience to authority), Asch (conformity to majority opinion), and Zimbardo (situational power of r
ZC_1_02 — Cult Psychology — Manipulation, Totalism, and Recovery
Cult psychology examines how high-demand groups employ systematic influence techniques to recruit, retain, and control members. Key frameworks include Robert Jay Lifton's eight criteria of thought reform, Steven Hassan's
T_4_13 — Political Psychology: Ideology, Moral Foundations, and the Psychology of Political Belief
Political psychology — the scientific study of the psychological bases of political behavior, beliefs, and ideologies — investigates why people hold the political views they do, how they process political information, an
T_4_01 — Psychology of Belief & Conspiracy Thinking
The psychology of conspiracy thinking examines why individuals adopt beliefs in secret plots by powerful actors to achieve malevolent goals — beliefs that often resist disconfirmation and form interconnected "monological
T_4_11 — Propaganda and Persuasion: Techniques, Psychology, and Modern Information Warfare
Propaganda — the systematic dissemination of information (true, distorted, or fabricated) to shape public attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in service of a particular agenda — and persuasion — the art and science of chan
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