Friday, April 28, 2017

Brain-heart dialogue shows how racism hijacks perception

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Tsakiris does a nice summary of his work that shows a biological basis for why you’re more than twice as likely as a white person to be una...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Underestimating the value of being in another person's shoes.

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I pass on a bit of the introduction from Zhou et al. , and then their abstract: A lot of leaders are coming here, to sit down and visit. I...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

MindBlog is moving to Austin. Texas

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A personal note...the picture is of a crane moving my Steinway B out of our second floor condo in Fort Lauderdale. It's been a good run....
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Reading what the mind thinks from how the eye sees.

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Expressive eye widening (as in fear) and eye narrowing (as in disgust) are associated with opposing optical consequences and serve opposing ...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Brooks on "The crisis of Western Civilization"

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A brief screed by David Brooks , worth a read, notes the decline of a progressive Western civilization narrative that “that people, at lea...
Friday, April 21, 2017

A.I. better at predicting heart attacks, learns implicit racial and gender bias.

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Lohr notes a study that suggest we need to develop and "A.I. index" analogous to the Consumer Price Index, to track the pace and ...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Study suggests social media are not contributing to political polarization.

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Bromwich does an interesting piece on increasing political polarization in the US. The number of the 435 house districts in the country com...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

How to feel good - and how feeling good can be bad for you.

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In case you feel like another click,  I pass on these two self-helpy feel-good or happiness bits, in the common list form ... First, a bit...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Scratching is contagious.

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The precis from Science Magazine, followed by the abstract: Observing someone else scratching themselves can make you want to do so. This ...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Is "The Stack" the way to understand everything?

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When the Apple II computer arrived in 1977, I eagerly took its BASIC language tutorials and began writing simple programs to work with my la...
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Friday, April 14, 2017

Anterior temporal lobe and the representation of knowledge about people

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Anzellotti frames work by Wang et al. : Patients with semantic dementia (SD), a neurodegenerative disease affecting the anterior tempor...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Lying is a feature, not a bug, of Trump’s presidency.

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PolitiFact rates half of Trump’s disputed public statements to be completely false. Adam Smith points out that Trump is telling… “blue” l...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

How exercise calms anxiety.

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Another mouse story, as in the previous post, hopefully applicable to us humans. Gretchen Reynolds points to work of Gould and colleagues...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

The calming effect of breathing.

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Sheikhbahaei1 and Smith do a Perspective article in Science on the work of Yackle et al. in the same issue. The first bit of their perspe...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Brain correlates of information virality

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Scholz et al. show that activity in brain areas associated with value, self and social cognition correlates with internet sharing of articl...
Friday, April 07, 2017

Three sources of cancer - the importance of “bad luck”

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Tomasetti and Vogelstein raised a storm by claiming several years ago that 65% of the risk of certain cancers is not due to inheritance or e...
Thursday, April 06, 2017

How "you" makes meaning.

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Orvell et al. do some experiments on our use of the generic “you” rather than the first-person pronoun “I.” “You” is one of the most commo...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Religiosity and social support

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I found this article by Eleanor Power to be an interesting read. Here is her abstract:. In recent years, scientists based in a variet...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Wiser than than the crowd.

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In a summary in Nature Human Behavior , Kousta points to work by Prelec et al. The summary: The notion that the average judgment of a la...
Monday, April 03, 2017

Several takes on extending our lives.

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In spite of the fact that I am unsympathetic to efforts to extend our lifespan, I want to pass on several recent articles on the effort. Tad...
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