Body Ritual among the Nacirema
This is a hoot!
Deric"s Website
Selected Blog Categories
- acting/choosing (303)
- aging (144)
- animal behavior (190)
- attention/perception (357)
- autism (20)
- brain plasticity (209)
- consciousness (176)
- culture (20)
- culture/politics (515)
- deric (191)
- embodied cognition (35)
- emotion (282)
- evolution/debate (105)
- evolutionary psychology (98)
- faces (90)
- fear/anxiety/stress (237)
- futures (67)
- genes (99)
- happiness (158)
- human development (136)
- human evolution (172)
- language (109)
- meditation (45)
- memory/learning (188)
- mirror neurons (51)
- morality (57)
- motivation/reward (105)
- music (164)
- psychology (155)
- religion (91)
- self (108)
- self help (74)
- sex (110)
- sleep (42)
- social cognition (323)
- technology (213)
- unconscious (45)
Popular Posts
- Did Alex really "want" a cracker?
- The brain during normal awareness, absence Seizures, and the vegetative state
- Coevolution of choosiness and cooperation
- Models of cognitive control in prefrontal cortex.
- Rich and Poor
- The illusion of sex
- Your brain can put your body wherever it likes....
- Sex promotes generation of new brain cells.
- The importance of our brains’ resting state activity.
- Serotonin regulates our moral judgements
Archives
-
►
2012
(34)
-
►
February
(12)
- How psychedelics affect our brain - unconstrained ...
- Life is a digital code.
- Testosterone, digit ratio, and abstract reasoning ...
- Us vs. them in context.
- Even if the juice is a placebo...
- Juice up your Valentine's day!
- Don't go to bed angry...
- Our connectomes 'R Us?
- Massage therapy suppresses expression of inflammat...
- The good life can be a killer.
- Should I use condoms for sex? The millisecond sca...
- Simplicity itself.
-
►
January
(22)
- Our Thrifty Brains.
- A simple way to attentuate emotional arousal?
- You think, therefore I am.
- Cellular 'self eating' accounts for some beneficia...
- The psychology of perceived wealth.
- Bounded rationality.
- The age of anxiety
- On Solitude.
- Chill-out architecture - The use of tree metaphors...
- Living large - how the powerful overestimate.
- My pushing back against our diffusion into “the cl...
- Remembering a rosy future.
- Our bias against creativity
- IQ scores are malleable.
- BioDigitalHuman - You've got to check out this sit...
- Classic versus modern violins: beauty in the eye o...
- Are the Humanities becoming the “Animal Sciences”
- Structural changes in adult brains caused by acqui...
- Can ignorance promote democracy?
- Dynamics of improvising together.
- Have a scary memory? Erase it with prozac plus psy...
- Our genes and our behavior, a paradigm shift in ou...
-
►
February
(12)
-
►
2011
(323)
-
►
December
(25)
- Friends with benefits - pet ownership and well-bei...
- Local Jekyll and global Hyde - duality of face per...
- Leaning to the left makes an object seem smaller.
- Musicians use both sides of their brains more freq...
- Good minus God - distrust of atheists
- Prosocial behavior as intrinsic to our brains in a...
- Single nucleotide change in oxytocin receptor gene...
- A face only an investor could love...
- Our mindreading of another person depends on how m...
- Why do humans collaborate so much?
- Video at the speed of light.
- Taming human conflicts in the real world
- Our biological immune system activates our behavio...
- Heirarchies of empathy in the brain
- Empathy in rats - a great video
- Chemical and social mechanisms of self healing.
-
►
December
(25)
Followers
Other Mind Blogs
- Alltop Neuroscience News
- Alltop Psychology News
- BPS Research Digest
- Brain Blogger
- Brain/Behavior - Science Blogs
- BrainConnection
- BrainLog (in German)
- Developing Intelligence
- Intelligence Theories
- John Hawks Weblog
- Mindhacks
- Neuroanthropology
- NeuroBioEthics
- Neurocritic
- Neuromarketing
- Neurophilosophy
- PsyBlog
- Psychology Today Blog
- The Beautiful Brain
- The Frontal Cortex
- The Thoughtful Animal
- Thinking Meat Project
FeedBurner Feed 
1 comments:
Our student teacher showed this to our class when I was in grade seven. He had us on for a while until he revealed what it was actually about. He thought it was hilarious. We thought he was a bit weird.
Post a Comment