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ModelDevelopment and Individual Differences
People are shaped by their environments, but they also select, evoke and alter the conditions around them. Across time, these reciprocal processes can stabilise or redirect development.
Read How Early Experience Shapes Without Determining first (+3 more).
ModelDevelopment and Individual Differences
Some people are more responsive than others to environmental conditions—for worse under adversity, but also for better under support. Differential susceptibility explains this variation…
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ModelLearning and MemoryFoundational
A model of how goal-sensitive and habitual influences can coexist, compete and cooperate in shaping learned behaviour.
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ModelLearning and Memory
A model of how established learning can sometimes become susceptible to modification and restabilisation after reactivation.
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ModelPerception, Attention and BeliefFoundational
Predictive processing models perception as recurrent interaction between existing expectations and incoming sensory information, using mismatch and updating to explain how perception…
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ModelEmotion, Value and MotivationFoundational
Emotion theories are better understood as overlapping families of explanatory approaches than as isolated camps. The important question is not only which family a theory belongs to, but…
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ModelEmotion, Value and MotivationFoundational
Why can something matter deeply and still not seem worth the effort? This Model explains how anticipated benefit, expected effort, success probability and uncertainty can shape effortful…
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ModelEmotion, Value and Motivation
Two routes between the same two places: one familiar and dependable, one unknown and possibly faster. The choice is not between a good decision and a bad one. It is between obtaining an…
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ModelAction and ControlFoundational
Self-control has been explained through limited strength, changing motivation, value-based choice, control allocation, strategy timing and conflict monitoring. These models overlap, but…
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ModelSelf, Identity and Narrative
When actions repeatedly appear unable to influence outcomes, people may learn more than disappointment. They may begin to expect that action itself will not matter.
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ModelRelationships, Culture and Power
Attachment is not simply a label for how someone behaves in relationships. It is a system of expectations about whether other people will be available, responsive and safe when they are…
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ModelDynamic Systems and Integrated Change
A model of how accumulating conditions can cross a threshold and produce a disproportionate shift in a system's state or behaviour.
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ModelDynamic Systems and Integrated Change
Behaviour often varies without changing its underlying organisation. Attractor models describe how interacting processes repeatedly guide behaviour toward familiar patterns — and why change…
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ModelDynamic Systems and Integrated Change
Path dependence describes how earlier events, decisions and conditions reshape the possibilities available later. A trajectory becomes path-dependent when movement along it changes…
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