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Do Women Really Have Fewer Sex Partners Than Men?

If you’ve had the unfortunate pleasure of venturing on Tinder in recent years you might come across this question. A […]

The availability heuristic, also called the availability bias, is when our cognitive processes rely on the most easily retrievable information,

In psychology, a common framework for cognitive psychologists is called the information processing model. It’s where psychologists assume the mind

Cultural perspective is how we see a concept, event, or situation through our environment and social influence. This perspective is

External attribution is the belief that external factors outside of a person’s control are responsible for everything in life. Psychologists

In psychology, the concordance rate is the probability of two people with the same genes getting the same disease. Since

An experiment is a scientific procedure with the purpose of testing a hypothesis, making a discovery, or testing if something

The visuospatial sketchpad is the part of our working memory that handles visual and spatial information. The sketchpad kind of

In psychology, a macrosystem is the culture a person lives within. It falls under the ecological systems theory created by

In psychology, a microsystem is all the people, groups, and institutions that are involved in a child’s development. It’s a