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- DictionaryHa·bit·u·a·tion/həˌbiCHəˈwāSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. the action of habituating or the condition of being habituated: "the training of the horse does not depend on force but on habituation"
3 days ago · 3. Give to others over yourself. The pleasure of giving keeps on giving, while the pleasure of owning fades with time. As a study in the book showed, giving people $5 to spend on themselves or on someone else both led to spikes in people’s happiness. But those who gave to others found their happiness declined less quickly over time.
1 day ago · Psychology is the study of mind and behavior. [1] Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social sciences.
1 day ago · Moreover, the quick habituation of some emotional responses, and the variable speed with which different measures of the emotional response habituate, makes these problems even more difficult to solve. 55, 167 Compounding the elicitation problems is the measurement problem: emotion researchers also lack any one-to-one mapping between the evoked ...
2 days ago · In Catholic orders today, formal religious self-formation combines interior reflection with behavioral habituation. Catholic religious learn to intensify the “examination of conscience,” a Christian mode of interior reflection in which a person uses biblical guidelines to examine the state of her soul before receiving the sacraments.
4 days ago · Meditation may significantly reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and pain, [6] and enhance peace, perception, [7] self-concept, and well-being. [8] [9] [10] Research is ongoing to better understand the effects of meditation on health ( psychological, neurological, and cardiovascular) and other areas.
3 days ago · Although habituation is necessary for acquiring virtue in the first place, this does not mean that you can fully acquire virtues without rational thinking. Aristotelian character education puts emphasis on the intellectual integrative virtue of phronesis ; it provides the reflective element in character education (Kristjánsson & Fowers ...
5 days ago · Robertson and Manly define it as “the ability to self-sustain mindful, conscious processing of stimuli whose repetitive, non-arousing qualities would otherwise lead to habituation and distraction to other stimuli .” During testing, we placed participants in a dimly lit room to avoid other distractions.
