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Conversation.
aggressive mimicry, anxiety carrier state, arousal, avoidance, biological advantage, bluster, child, children, circumlocution, clear the head, CNV, competitiveness, contingent negative variation, conversation, conversational narcissism, deception, Doppler effect, ensonification, errors of judgement, errors of judgment, flannel, Gilbertian mimicry, human host, human parasite, implicature, interview technique, irritability, jitter, loneliness, malfeasance, misrepresentation, mobile ‘phone, monologue, mutual regression, Nash equilibrium, networking, obsessionality, pets, plausible deniability, pregnant pause, prevarication, pseudo-conversation, regression., seduction, self-reassurance, self-stimulation, sexual promise, shift response, sleep, soliloquy, stimulus-independent thought, support response, the centre of attention, The cortical generators of the contingent negative variation in humans: a study with subdural electrodes, the sound of her own voice, the sound of his own voice, the sound of one’s own voice, thinking out loud, tit for tat, verbiageConversation normally starts with an alerting signal, so as to engage the attention of the intended collocutor. Absence of the alerting signal conveys that this is not going to be a conversation. Conversation normally includes listening pauses, the absence of which indicates that this is not a conversation: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”…
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Schizophrenia.
ADHD, anthropomorphism, aposematic, aposematism, conduct disorder, deimatic, deimatic display, genotype, in vino veritas, life events, Minor Physical Anomalies in Schizophrenia Patients Bipolar Patients and Their Siblings, ontogeny of teaching in humans, oppositional behaviour, phenotype, schizophrenia, the instinct to teachSchizophrenia is the extreme expression of discrepancy between the phenotype and the genotype. Patients with schizophrenia have significantly more minor physical abnormalities than their siblings, which may explain differential parental responses. The instinct to teach may be to create in one’s own image, which distances phenotype from genotype in learners. Supposedly disruptive behaviour in children…
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Inclusive fitness is difficult to reconcile with Shakespearean representations of family life.Inclusive fitness is difficult to reconcile with family life as observed in the psychiatric consulting room.
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Someone who is tense is unlikely to hit out, because the muscles that move joints are contracted symmetrically.Someone who is restless or agitated is more likely to hit out. The tone of our somatic muscles is varied through muscle spindles, which is why we get tension headaches unexpectedly. Yawning and stretching standardise the length of…
To be or not to be. 