Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Political ideology and pathogen avoidance across 30 nations

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Tyber et al. (a huge number of collaborators) show from a survey across 30 nations that the relatively higher conservatism of people and na...
Monday, November 07, 2016

How to get beyond our tribal politics.

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Haidt and Iyer offer an essay in The Wall Street Journal that tries to see a way past the tribal animosities that have been dominating our ...
Friday, November 04, 2016

Facebook use associated with a longer life?

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From Hobbs et al. , with the usual caution that correlations are not causes: Significance People who have stronger social networks liv...
Thursday, November 03, 2016

Social motion, social bonds, and exercise.

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Davis et al. note how bodies moving in synchrony perform beyond the sum of their individual parts. In two experimental studies, we inv...
Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Wikipedia - a possible antidote for the pathologies of the internet?

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This interesting article by Jeff Guo is worth a read. The early hope that the instant communication offered by the internet would knit soci...
Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Paradoxical thinking intervention can moderate attitudes in violent times

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Hameiri et al. show how attitudes of those participating in one of the most intractable conflicts in the world can be moderated. I pass on ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

I can't resist passing this on..... Trump Sandwich

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Sent by a friend:

Questioning the universality of a facial emotional expression.

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Crivelli et al. question the universality of at least one facial expression that has been thought to be the same across all cultures. This ...
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Friday, October 28, 2016

Lifespan adversity and later adulthood telomere length.

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From Puterman et al. (Note...telomeres are protective caps of tandem repeats of nucleotides at the end of DNA strands, whose shortening is ...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

More evidence on exercise delaying later life dementia

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Suo et al. examine changes in brain anatomy that occur during exercise, the only known antidote to later life dementia. They compare brain...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Men are more friendly after conflict than women.

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Interesting stuff from Benenson and Wrangham , whose findings suggest the deep evolutionary history of male bonding. Men affiliate more afte...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Issues or Identity? Cognitive foundations of voter choice.

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This open source article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Jenki and Huette is worth a look. I pass on the summary and one figure. Vot...
Monday, October 24, 2016

What kind of exercise is best for the brain?

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Reynolds points to work by Nokia et al. asking what kind of exercise is most effective in stimulating the generation of new brain cells in...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Most effective learning?... sleep between two practice sessions

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From Mazza et al. : Both repeated practice and sleep improve long-term retention of information. The assumed common mechanism underlying th...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

You're gonna die....

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I live in Fort Lauderdale, an epicenter of life extension companies peddling life extending elixirs. I've tried a few of them, and repo...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Testosterone in men is associated with status enhancing behaviors.

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Seeing this piece by Dreher et al. makes me wonder what Donald Trump's testosterone levels are.... Significance Although in severa...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The brain basis of numerical thinking is different in congenitally blind people.

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Kanjlia et al. show that the absence of visual experience modifies the neural basis of numerical thinking. Brain areas recruited for numeri...
Monday, October 17, 2016

3-year olds infer social norms from single actions.

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Work from Schmidt et al. that is in the same vein as the previous MindBlog post: Human social life depends heavily on social norms that pr...
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Friday, October 14, 2016

Our most simple sensory decisions show confirmation bias.

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Abrahamyan et al. do some fascinating experiments to show that our existing history of making choices, regardless of whether the choices ar...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

The decline of self, intimacy, and friendships

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David Brooks'  searing Op-Ed piece is worth a slow read. Some clips: ...In 1985, 10 percent of Americans said they had no one to fu...
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