Furthermore, the file drawer effect refers to the practice of researchers filing away studies with negative outcomes. ... In a secondary study conducted by Baker, the results were similar. ... The results from both studies provided little evidentiary support for those who insist that people somehow can sense when they are being stared at. ... In addition, there is a huge literature on probability learning that suggests people are very good at learning global and local probabilities in the patterning of events which is what appears to have happened during Sheldrake's experiment (Servan-Sc...

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A utilitarian will say that we, as humans are capable of a higher level of pleasure that exists only on an level, such as the appreciation of arts and literature, and the pursuit of knowledge, and that the appreciation of pleasures of these nature are part of what makes us human. When Mill was a child his father enforced his education with lessons and a rigorous regimen of study. ...

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Studies have shown that audio and visual stimuli can activate different regions in the brain without the participant being aware. ... The confirmation of the theoretical and practical implications of these results would add to the social-cognitive literature and be socially interesting. ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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