Friday, August 31, 2012

Scientific basis of a psychotherapy.

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I've been wanting to pass on elements of a nice essay written by Eric Kandel for last year's Edge question, which describes Aaron B...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Freud, the tea party, and deluded individualism.

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A nice piece by DeBrabander in The Stone forum on the NYTimes has an interesting take on how it is that stalwart red state tea party suppor...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Wednesday morning music: Faure Barcarolle No. 1

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I keep stopping recordings and starting over if I make a mistake, and I finally decided the hell with it, and just recorded a run through, m...
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The quotable Gore Vidal.

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I just can't resist passing on these wonderful quotes from Gore Vidal,  from the PBS website : 1. “It is not enough to succeed. Others...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Effect of early institutionalization on brain development.

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Sheridan et al. do further studies on the effects of Rumanian institutionalization of children, finding some reversibility its deleterious ...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

The mis-use of Science: PseudoNeuroscience sways judges' sentencing.

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One sees frequent discussions in neuroscience journals (like this one in Trends in Cognitive Sciences ) over whether, and to what extent, ne...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

Reconstructing intolerance.

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Luguri et al. in the Yale psychology department relate the tolerance of conservatives to whether their construal level is more abstract ver...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

A musical offering - Debussy L'Isle Joyeuse

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I have finally done a recording of the Debussy L'Isle Joyeuse that I did at a house concert several months ago, deciding to post this r...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Nocebo effect - the harm expectations can do.

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A piece by Enck and Häuser in the NYTimes summarizes (and links to) their paper in Deutsche Ärzteblatt Internationa reviewing 31 studies on...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Simple mechanisms can generate wealth inequality.

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The Chaos Seminar lunch group at the University of Wisconsin, organized by physicist Clint Sprott and poet Robin Chapman, has been doing a...
Monday, August 20, 2012

The Anxious Idiot

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Following in the vein of last Friday's self-helpy post I thought I would note Daniel Smith's quirky Op-Ed piece in the NYTimes abou...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

A friday homily - "Symptoms of Inner Peace"

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During a random walk of the web, which I do rather infrequently, I came across this piece by Saskia Davis, which, at the risk of being maudl...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

A choice mind-set perpetuates acceptance of wealth inequality.

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The practice of choice and the discourse of choice are widely prevalent in the United States. They derive from sentiments of the founding fa...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

We are meant to become cyborg.

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I pass on some clips from a brief essay by Sherry Turkle: Winnicott believes that during all stages of life we continue to search for objec...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

If you are not in the group, you will not be in consciousness.

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Here is a fascinating piece of work from Yar Pinto and collaborators at the University of Amsterdam, reported at the recent annual meeting ...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Culture of Empathy

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I have finally taken time to look more thoroughly at a site noted in a comment to my July 25 post on compassion research. The "Cultu...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

More on Haidt and Moral Psychology

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I have finally finished a complete reading of Jonathan Haidt's book "The Righteous Mind" that I have mentioned in several prev...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

Men with wider faces are more generous.

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Here is an interesting piece from Stirrat and Perrett : Male facial width-to-height ratio appears to correlate with antisocial tendencies, s...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

A MindBlog Retrospective

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Random musings...While doing some abstracting for a personal history, I’ve been looking back over writing and lectures I’ve done since my “B...
Monday, August 06, 2012

The MindBlog queue: moral responsibility; evolution of music; booze and hypnosis

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During this period of relative inactivity for MindBlog, while I am pursuing other projects, I still accumulate references to work that looks...