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What are these people doing? Dancing? Karate? Levitation? Is the woman in this photo reaching for someone, or pointing to something? And what’s up with those guys behind the glass screen? Do they have something to hide? Are they heading in the wrong direction?
Much of what people do can be understood by systematically observing them and testing how they respond in different situations. However, a lot of human thought, emotion, and behavior, and the factors that drive it, occurs in private, outside of the view of others (at least the most interesting parts do). Psychological scientists have developed a wide range of methods that allow them to “peek behind the glass screen,” so to speak, and this photo by RJ Muna grabbed us in part because it so nicely captures this theme. This photo also highlights the beauty and excitement of human behavior, which is what drew each of us to psychology in the first place.
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PSYCHOLOGY
THIRD EDITION
DANIEL L. SCHACTER
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DANIEL T. GILBERT
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DANIEL M. WEGNER
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
MATTHEW K. NOCK
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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