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Personal Perspective: I can get so flummoxed by an opinion different from mine that I'm paralyzed and can't think of a response…
Personal Perspective: I can get so flummoxed by an opinion different from mine that I'm paralyzed and can't think of a response…
There’s a certain amount of mysticism that gets attached to what we refer to as our ‘intuition’. Many a social media self-help…
Cognitive scientists have known for decades that humans are inherently irrational when it comes to making economic decisions.
With the U.S. Presidential Elections looming around the corner, you don’t have to be American to find yourself following the…
The…
One of my interests is affective empathy, the involuntary desire not only to understand another person's emotional state but…
We like to think that all people feel empathy to the same degree. In reality, it varies a lot from one person to the next, like…
[content note: mental illness. I am still in training and do not understand these issues even as well as a fully-trained…
Smilin’ Joe demonstrates our fallacy. It’s a doozy, this error of ours. So ubiquitous is it that it’s hardly noticeable. Yet…
In a variation of the denier memes "CO2 is only a trace gas" and "it's not happening", Anthony Watts has a silly article about…
Sociologists and psychologists know how to get attention - make a crazy claim based on correlations in population data or…
John Hibbing makes the case in the Washington's Post's Monkey Cage: Larry Bartels recently asked what studies of genes and…
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It's easy to forget that there was once a time when a lot of hype resulted from claims that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI…
Recently, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz and John McTague posted an interesting piece here at Pacific Standard about the role of…
I promised to answer someone who asked me what I think of Schreiber, D., Fonzo, G., Simmons, A.N., Dawes, C.T., Flagan, T.…
How, our grandchildren will ask, did we come to marriage equality in the United States? And we'll answer, like Hemingway's Mike…
Brain researchers are increasingly focused on whether our brains are red or blue–as in Democrat or Republican. And there…
By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: Once more, over the cliff! Our lawmakers have had to make, or not make, some risky decisions lately.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130213173131.htm e aqui o paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.137…
Watch: Incredible dashboard footage of the Russian meteor strike Next Web (Richard Smith) Red Brain, Blue Brain: Evaluative…
What can brain scans reveal about a person’s political beliefs? Photo by Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS If you want to know people’s…
Me neither... What makes us angry, sad, scared; what we notice, assign significance to, and recall -- all tell us who and what…