Thursday, May 31, 2007

Anheuser-Busch would never do this

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..comments the friend who emailed me this video of a Guiness commercial: Married to a Man

Why don’t we do what we know works better?

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I mull frequently about an issue that I’m sure readers of this blog are familiar with. Having assembled a fairly extensive toolkit of tech...
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Guide to psychology blogs...

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PsyBlog publishes the first part of a two part guide to other psychology blog.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

3rd and 1st person narrative in personality change

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Benedict Carey writes a piece in the Tuesday NY Times science section ( PDF here ) reviewing work done by a number of researchers on on how ...
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"The Secret" scam....

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More of Michael Schermer's terrific debunking of popular myth in the June Scientific American... Some clips: An old yarn about a class...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Neural correlates of social cognition

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Vittorio Gallese writes an interesting summary in Proc. Roy. Soc. B titled "Before and below ‘theory of mind’: embodied simulation and ...

Why Americans resist scientific ideas.

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Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg offer a fascinating review of the childhood origins of adult resistance to science (PDF here ), poin...
Monday, May 28, 2007

Adding labels or keywords to MindBlog for indexing... some glitches

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I'm going to be adding labels (keywords) to new and older blog posting over the next period of time, and it appears that any change in a...

The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology

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The article of this title by Haidt is worth passing on to those of you who are interested in this area (PDF here ). Here is the abstract: ...

Embodying emotion

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This is the title of an interesting review by Niedenthal ( PDF here ) on how manipulations of facial expression and posture in the laborato...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

A Wedding in Mexico

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Pictures: Deric and his son Jonathan in exile while the women are getting ready; the ceremony; Jonathan and Shana in the sunset.
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Friday, May 25, 2007

A neural link between hand muscle excitability and numerical counting

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Sato et al. do an interesting experiment showing that excitability of our hand muscles changes when we perform a visual (non-numerical) cou...
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Gene crucial to learning and memory unique in humans

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Zu et al report that a human-specific gene mutation (not seen in other primates) leads to the origin of a novel splice form of neuropsin (K...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

Boundaries of Experience and Self

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I've been slogging through journals that accumulated during my snow-bird phase last winter, and am going through a pile of back issues o...

Spring at Twin Valley

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This is a blog draft I saved to post while I'm away...these pictures around my Twin Valley Road home in Middleton, Wisconsin just before...

View from my window - Isla Mujeres

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Turns out I can get wireless in the hotel lobby. I'm at the Playa Media Luna on Isla Mujeres, off of Cancun, the occasion being my 33...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Schermer on happiness - science and history

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An essay by Michael Schermer in the March 2007 issue of the Scientific American ( PDF here ), briefly notes several recent books on happines...
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Visual Illusions

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Here are two sites of stimulating illusions that I return to when I need a moment of relief. One is by Michael Bach, the other is a part ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Deric, a vacation, and thinking about MindBlog-opps!

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(NOTE - somehow the comments got turned off for this post initially, I'm grateful to a reader for pointing this out to me.) I will be in...
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Genetic basis for vulnerability to drug addiction.

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Yacubian et al.( link to full text ) demonstrate that human genetic variations that alter dopamine neurotransmission involved in reward path...