Split psychology

Analyzing Big Data in Psychology: A Split/Analyze/Meta-Analyze Approach

Big data is a field that has traditionally been dominated by disciplines such as computer science and business, where mainly data-driven analyses have been performed. Psychology, a discipline in which a strong emphasis is placed on behavioral theories and empirical research, has the potential to contribute greatly to the big data movement. However, one challenge to psychologists-and probably th...

The Myth of Dual Consciousness in the Split Brain: Contrary Evidence from Psychology and Neuroscience

In his Nobel acceptance lecture in 1981, Roger Sperry, who was awarded the Prize for Physiology or Medicine, argued that his research and that of his collaborators had demonstrated that the right hemisphere of split-brain patients had a rich cognitive and emotional life that might be said to rival that of the left hemisphere in many respects. This cemented the belief that two consciousness may ...

Split-critical and uniquely split-colorable graphs

The split-coloring problem is a generalized vertex coloring problem where we partition the vertices into a minimum number of split graphs. In this paper, we study some notions which are extensively studied for the usual vertex coloring and the cocoloring problem from the point of view of split-coloring, such as criticality and the uniqueness of the minimum split-coloring. We discuss some proper...

Psychology, Social Psychology and Risk

Health psychology and health promotion

Health psychology is the defined as studying of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It contributes to is concerned with the understanding of how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute role to in physical health and illness. Psychological factors can affect health directly. For example, health is hurt by the chronically occurring environ...