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The Attention-Getting Capacity of Whines and Child-Directed Speech by Chang, Rosemarie Sokol, Thompson, Nicholas S.

“…The current study tested the ability of whines and child-directed speech to attract the attention of listeners involved in a story repetition task. Twenty…”
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Signs and Designs by Thompson, Nicholas S.

“…The concept of sign is ambiguous, even in the hands of its most persuasive advocate, the 19ᵗʰ Century semeioticist, Charles Sanders Peirce. Peirce's…”
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The Impact of Social Category Diversity on Motivation Gains in Exercise Groups by Irwin, Brandon C, Thompson, Nicholas S

“…Exercising with a virtual partner can increase motivation by 208%, but may be moderated by partner characteristics. We tested the impact of social category…”
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Sex differences in human jealousy: A coordinated study of forced-choice, continuous rating-scale, and physiological responses on the same subjects by Pietrzak, Robert H, Laird, James D, Stevens, David A, Thompson, Nicholas S

“…Previous investigators have confirmed the evolutionary hypothesis that the sexes differ in their responses to sexual vs. emotional infidelity and have taken…”
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CAN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS PROVE THE NEED FOR COGNITION IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY? 1 by Charles, Eric, Thompson, Nicholas S

“…In that context, the statistical predictive power from A to B and from B to C is asserted to represent causal process, and it follows that the lack of…”
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Whining as mother-directed speech by Sokol, Rosemarie I., Webster, Karen L., Thompson, Nicholas S., Stevens, David A.

“…Although little studied, whining is a vocal pattern that is both familiar and irritating to parents of preschool‐ and early school‐age children. The current…”
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Shifting the Natural Selection Metaphor to the Group Level by Thompson, Nicholas S.

“…Group selection is said to occur when the traits of groups that systematically out-reproduce competing groups eventually come to characterize the species…”
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The Effect of Vividness of Experience on Sex Differences in Jealousy by Strout, Sarah L., Laird, James D., Shafer, Aaron, Thompson, Nicholas S.

“…Doubt has been raised about the validity of results that appear to demonstrate sex differences in the type of infidelity that elicits jealousy. Two studies…”
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A reassessment of the role of pitch and duration in adults' responses to infant crying by Dessureau, Brian K., Kurowski, Carolyn O., Thompson, Nicholas S.

“…Researchers have identified pitch and duration as components of infants' cries that mediate adults' reactions. In this study, we used a novel method of cry…”
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Evolutionary Psychology Returns to Its Bowlbian Roots by Amin, Tamer, Thompson, Nicholas S.

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WHINES, CRIES, AND MOTHERESE: THEIR RELATIVE POWER TO DISTRACT by Sokol, Rosemarie I., Thompson, Nicholas S.

“…There is ample support for the ability of motherese and infant cries, and more recently whining, to attract the attention of listeners. Similarly, Morsbach,…”
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The Evolutionary Foundation of Perceiving One's Own Emotions by Strout, Sarah L., Sokol, Rosemarie I., Laird, James D., Thompson, Nicholas S.

“…Much research in the field of emotions has shown that people differ in the cues that they use to perceive their own emotions. People who are more responsive to…”
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The Perils of Confusing Nesting with Chaining in Psychological Explanations by Barker, Gillian A., Derr, Patrick G., Thompson, Nicholas S.

“…Despite its diminished importance amongst philosophers, the deductive-nomological framework is still important to contemporary behavioral scientists…”
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The Many Perils of Ejective Anthropomorphism by Thompson, Nicholas S.

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Familiarity and the Rarity of Deception: Two Theories and Their Relevance to Play Between Dogs (Canis familiaris) and Humans (Homo sapiens) by Mitchell, Robert W, Thompson, Nicholas S

“…One theory of the relation between familiarity and the frequency of deception predicts that familiarity leads to the rarity of deception and another, that…”
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Contra Epstein, Good Explanations Predict by Thompson, Nicholas S, Derr, Patrick

“…Epstein has argued that an explanation's capacity to make predictions should play a minor role in its evaluation . This view contradicts centuries of…”
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Reconstruing Hempelian Motivational Explanations by Derr, Patrick, Thompson, Nicholas S.

“…When motivational explanations are cast in the Hempelian form, motivations and other mental states usually play the role of antecedent conditions. This leads…”
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A Behaviorist Account of Emotions and Feelings: Making Sense of James D. Laird'sFeelings: The Perception of Self by Charles, Eric P., Bybee, Michael D., Thompson, Nicholas S.

“…InFeelings: The Perception of Self, Laird deftly synthesizes decades of research supporting the self-perception theory of emotion and feeling, providing an…”
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A Comparison of Cawing in the European Carrion Crow (Corvus Corone) and the American Common Crow (Corvus Brachyrhynchos) by Thompson, Nicholas S

“…AbstractThe American common crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) has a complex communication system in which the meaning of its sound units ("caws") is determined in…”
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A BEHAVIORIST ACCOUNT OF EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS: MAKING SENSE OF JAMES D. LAIRD'S FEELINGS: THE PERCEPTION OF SELF by Charles, Eric P, Bybee, Michael D, Thompson, Nicholas S

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