Tuesday, January 31, 2017

An individual's ultimate economic burden can be forecast in childhood

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Important work from Caspi et al. , who show that 20% of the population accounts for close to 80% of economic burden. This group can be predi...
Monday, January 30, 2017

The uniformity illusion.

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Otten et al. investigate a visual illusion in which the accurate and detailed vision in the center of our visual field, accomplished by the...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Regression to the mean - Why we would all be better off if we ignored Trump’s tweets

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O’Donnell’s answer to the annual edge.org question "What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?": My candi...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Smartphone reprogramming of our brains?

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Nicolelis makes some good points as he adds to the genre of literature that predicts a diminution of our brain power caused by dependence o...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Gender and the conflation of equality and sameness

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I want to pass on some clips from a sane brief essay by Helena Cronin, author of "The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selecti...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Knowing how confidently we know

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Here is a fascinating piece of work from Miyamoto et al. showing that parallel stream of information in the brain regulate the confidence t...
Monday, January 23, 2017

How our evolutionary psychology elected Donald Trump.

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While I feel that in principle our world might be best governed by a multinational meritocratic elite (of the sort that just met in Davos Sw...
Friday, January 20, 2017

The deepening of our cultural echo chambers.

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Farhad Manjoo does a nice piece in the Tech and Society section of the NY Times, pointing out how much has changed since the 1970s, when TV...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

The immensity of the vacated present.

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I am repeating, as I did with last Thursday's post, a post from several years ago with material that continues to be personally importan...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

A fitness downside to statin drugs?

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Before passing on this article by Gretchen Reynolds and the work of Chung et al. that it points to, I'll start with a personal account...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Research on consequences of low socioeconomic status becoming a small industry.

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It is becoming hard to keep up with research on biological and behavioral consequences of low socioeconomic status - one of MindBlog's s...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Positivity in older adults is more related to cognitive decline than to emotion regulation.

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It is commonly supposed that the more positive outlook characteristic of older people is due to their ability to regulate their emotions mor...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Seeing faces of young black boys facilitates identification of threatening stimuli.

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From Todd et al. (open source): Pervasive stereotypes linking Black men with violence and criminality can lead to implicit cognitive bia...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

The milliseconds of a choice - Watching your mind when it matters.

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I'm finding, with increasing frequency, that an article about health or psychology in the New York Times that I find interesting has an ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

People who move more are happier.

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No surprises here, but this study polling people using a smartphone app designed by the experimenters quantifies the effect. The use of sma...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

From Power to Inaction.

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An interesting little piece from Durso et al. on a consequence of feeling powerful (The paper appears to be open source, so you can note th...
Monday, January 09, 2017

The Second Law of Thermodynamics is the First Law of Psychology.

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I pass along some a clip from Steven Pinker’s contribution to the edge.org annual question “What scientific term or concept ought to be mo...
Friday, January 06, 2017

Dual streams of speech processing.

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A large number of studies have documented how visual information in the brain is processed in dual streams of information: dorsal (where is ...
Thursday, January 05, 2017

The effect of status on stress depends on the stability of the hierarchy.

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In most human societies, individuals with higher socioeconomic status live longer, experience increased well-being, and have lower rates of ...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017

What is different about the brains of “superagers”?

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Barrett and colleagues have performed fMRI studies on “superagers” age 60-80, and find that superagers not only perform similarly to young ...
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