Is emotion an enemy of knowledge?

01 January 2019 0 295 Report

It is common to think that emotions interfere with rational thinking. Plato described emotion and reason as two horses pulling us in opposite directions. Modern dual-systems models of judgment and decision-making are Platonic in the sense that they endorse the antagonism between reason and emotion.

Badges
Science topic

Similar topics
Cognitive Science
Thinking

More Olatunji A Shobande's questions See All

Is aid flow in reverse?

Ddeveloping countries students now developed Western world.l

08 September 2019 2,149 4 View

Can purposeful consumers and investors provides support for a shift to sustainable energy?

Energy demand and environmental issues.

01 February 2019 5,546 9 View

How is health affected by environmental hazard and toxins?

correlates of health, environmental hazard and toxins.

01 February 2019 1,510 9 View

Why precisely is the knowledge and understanding of environmental change so important to science and the economy?

Science and social condition.

01 February 2019 1,110 4 View

Will recent innovation in driveless can make traffic light obsolete?

Someday cars might talk to each other to coordinate traffic patterns. Malikopoulos and collaborators from Boston University recently developed a solution to control and minimize energy consumption...

31 December 2018 4,439 7 View

Does authority really means responsibility?

In business world, having authority is sometime ties to responsibility but the understanding of management theories provides different meaning to these concepts as one may have authority without...

31 December 2018 1,752 0 View

What are the humanitarian aspect of science?

The great thinkers of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment were scientists. Not only did many of them contribute to mathematics, physics, and physiology, but all of them were avid theorists in...

31 December 2018 9,985 3 View

What are the really components of limitation and delimitation of study?

Often seen in papers and journal articles as well as dissertations were research claim lack of time, data availability and cost are major challeges encounters during their studies. Recent studies...

31 December 2018 3,939 0 View

Will the Central Banks Monetary Policy be effective in the recent expansion in financial innovation?

Monetary policy Instruments and financial inmovation variables.

31 December 2018 210 0 View

Do we need the knowledge of conservative probability in quantum mechanics?

Hamiltonian mechanics is a theory developed as a reformulation of classical mechanics and predicts the same outcomes as non-Hamiltonian classical mechanics. It uses a different mathematical...

31 December 2018 3,762 3 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Is it necessary to report effect size (ES) in statistics of biomedical research given that we already report p values routinely?

Pls share your thoughts

01 March 2021 7,330 4 View

Which reagent is best among 'Dimethylglyoxime" and "Dithiothreitol" for spectroscopic determination of Nickel ?

What I think is Dithiothreitol. As it is water-soluble and does not form a precipitate. But, the thing is it contains sulphur which is quite hazardous to aquatic animals.

01 March 2021 8,374 4 View

How to identify what type of fillers are in a polymer?

Hello everyone, I have some PHAs blended with fillers and nucleating agents, yet I don't know what kind of fillers or nucleating agents. The producer has shut down and there's no way to get in...

24 February 2021 1,356 8 View

Is it mandatory to specify Subjects Combinations in Generalized Linear Mixed Models (SPSS)?

Hi all, I have data with two levels: lets think of the classic example of students and schools. When running the analysis in SPSS and selecting the Random Effects, we can select (we can or we...

24 February 2021 7,379 4 View

Do you think there is cognitive oversaturation in the current pandemic? What impact can this have? And other manifestations?

Dear colleagues, Do you think there is cognitive oversaturation in the current pandemic? What impact can this have? And other manifestations? The question is mainly aimed at adolescents (pupils,...

23 February 2021 7,796 4 View

Is it possible that Cancer cells could survive in heparinized blood for 48 hours?

Hi everyone, I am just wondering if we incubated 200 microliter of whole blood with 50 microliter of cancer cells(1bout 5000cells) do you think that cancer would survive for 48 hours?

23 February 2021 3,840 3 View

How to minimise the risk of being abused the profile of potential participants tagged in a social media post?

Dear colleagues, I got this one in one project I did ethics review. It's great to hear about your thoughts/experiences. "Doing an open recruitment online (i.e., via Facebook) requires public...

22 February 2021 3,322 3 View

What type of SPSS analyses should I use for my Dissertation?

I'm currently working on my Dissertation and I'm trying to think of the best analyses that I should use for my study. I'm using three questionnaires for this and two different groups, 1st group...

22 February 2021 1,351 4 View