Tag: #Taylor

2 essays

Unconscious perceptual processes

This article was inspired by a lecture given by Pamela Smith at the Radboud University Nijmegen. The purpose of perception is to support behaviour. Why do we perceive things in the first place? What is the point of it? Is it so we can understand the world? That sounds logical, but that cannot be the […]

Universal Self-Enhancement Reloaded: A Battle of Definitions and Paradigms

Some time ago I gave my thoughts about the battle of panculturalists vs. universalists with regard to self-enhancement. This is take II, which goes much more in depth and explores the story by examining the two key players in the discussion and there scientific battle in the different journals. Self-enhancement describes a range of psychological […]