Does perception influence personality? Personality-based impressions can also connect to impressions based on physical and environmental cues to make them even stronger For example, perceiving another person as attractive can create a halo effect that then leads you to look for behavioral cues that you can then tie to positive personality traits What are the […]
How is sublimation used in daily life?
How is sublimation used in daily life? Water Cycle. In the water cycle, sublimation is most commonly used to explain the process of snow and ice turning directly into water vapors without going into the liquid phase. When weather conditions such as low relative humidity and dry winds are present, sublimation happens more readily. What […]
Why did TiVo fail?
Why did TiVo fail? Literally for years after launch, people still didn’t know what the product was or why they would want one. TiVo failed to license their technology/UI for wider adoption. TiVo failed to disrupt the cable set-top box industry. $15/mo is too much for this feature, and cable providers sold their DVRs for […]
How does the information become knowledge?
How does the information become knowledge? Information becomes individual knowledge when it is accepted and retained by an individual as being a proper understanding of what is true (Lehrer, 1990) and a valid interpretation of the reality. Conversely, organizational or social knowledge exists when it is accepted by a consensus of a group of people. […]
Do you tell a child they are from a donor egg?
Why do I laugh when upset?
Why do I laugh when upset? Laughing is caused by the partition of a certain hormone in blood as a defense mechanism against overwhelming anger. It can be solved by therapy if you consult a psychiatrist. Why do I laugh at nothing? People who have a brain injury or neurological disease can also develop sudden […]
Who is Lisa in PT?
What is the Mach band effect?
What is the Mach band effect? Mach bands or the Mach effect refers to an optical phenomenon from edge enhancement due to lateral inhibition of the retina 2. This is an inbuilt edge enhancement mechanism of the retina, where the edges of darker objects next to lighter objects will appear lighter and vice versa, creating […]
What is GIF short for?
What is GIF short for? The Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, was first developed by computer scientist working at CompuServe back in 1987. And while it has swelled or dipped, the debate over how to pronounce the acronym for those minute looping animations became a thing once the GIF really took off. Can a GIF […]
Was the Queen of Sheba a jinn?
Was the Queen of Sheba a jinn? According to the scholar Al-Hamdani, the Queen of Sheba was the daughter of Ilsharah Yahdib, the Himyarite king of Najran. In another tale, she is said to be the daughter of spiritual creature (Jinn) and a human. Who is Queen of Sheba in Islam? Queen of Sheba, Arabic […]