Theories

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Theories


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This is the deepest level of information on this site, covering lots of academic theories that are relevant to changing minds.

Alphabetic list of Theories: All the theories in one big alphabetically-sorted list!
Grouped by type:

Motivation: Basic systems that get us going (and keep us going).
Belief: What and how we believe.
Meaning: How we make sense of the world and infer meaning.
Emotion: Affect and what we feel as emotion.
Memory: Memorizing and recall.
Attention: How we pay attention to things around us.
Understanding Ourselves: How we perceive ourselves.
Understanding Others: How we make sense of other people.
Discomfort: How we handle discomfort.
Attribution: How we attribute cause.
Forecasting: How we forecast what will happen.
Decision-making: How we make decisions.
Decision errors: Mistakes when we make decisions.
Conforming: Conforming with social rules.
Being Contrary: Acting differently or in non-conforming ways.
Helping Others: Sometimes we are just very helpful.
Persuasion: Changing the minds of others.
Resistance: Resisting attempts to persuade.
Trust: Building trust of others.
Leadership: Leading followers.
Lies: Telling things that are not true.
Power: Being able to achieve our goals.
Friendship: Making friends with others.
Behavior: General behavioral responses.
Groups: How groups think and act.
There is also:

Clusters: All theories in clusters of meaning (similar to above).