Thursday, January 31, 2019

Feedspot: MindBlog in top 100 psychology blogs

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I am clueless about monitoring traffic on MindBlog, have been puzzled why I get 3-5 emails a week wanting to contribute content, share conte...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Fake News: The misinformation machine.

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I want to pass on the abstract of a Science article by Grinberg et al. and parts of a commentary on it, work on what misinformation is and ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Default mode network as seat of our ego - The entropic brain hypothesis

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I want to recommend Chapter 5 of Michael Pollan's recent book " How to change your mind ," on the neuroscience of the psychede...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Homo Prospectus - the brain as a time traveler - augmentation by A.I.?

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Steve Johnson does an engaging article on the discovery and significance of the default mode network of our brains, which has been the subj...
Friday, January 25, 2019

The emotional dimension of pain.

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Corder et al. examine the unpleasant percept that dominates the affective dimension of pain, which is coupled with but distinct from the mo...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Social networks explain academic success and failure.

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Interesting work from Stadtfeld et al. : Significance Understanding the factors that explain academic failure and success of university...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

How exercise protects memory.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to an interesting study on a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease by Lourenco et al. showing that exercise cau...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Can psychological scientists make the world a better place?

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I want to point to the January 2019 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science that addresses the question asked in the title of this p...
Monday, January 21, 2019

The passing of governance to corporate oligarchies serving the top 10%?

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Three recent articles suggest to me a direction for our future. Bret Stephens' article describes the U.S. and Great Britain as rudderl...
Friday, January 18, 2019

The bacteria in your gut reveal your true age.

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Galkin et al. find that the composition of our gut microbiota can approximately reveal our age. Some microbes become more abundant with agi...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Upstairs/ Downstairs in our Brain - Who (or what) is running our show?

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I want to pass on to MindBlog readers the lecture notes and slides from a talk I gave yesterday to "NOVA" - one of five senior l...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Why 2018 was the best year in human history.

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Nicholas Kristof provides an antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding national and international politics in his Op-Ed piece , which is es...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Different meditation practices differently buffer from stress.

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A group at the University of Wisconsin lead by my colleague Richard Davidson looks a the effects of different styles of brief contemplative...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Does meditation provide the only way to survive our brain-dissolving technological and political environment?

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Both the last chapter of Harari's "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" ( abstracted in MindBlog here ) and a recent Op-Ed piece ...
Friday, January 11, 2019

The illusion of multitasking improves performance.

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From Srna et al. : With technological advancements, the desire, ability, and often necessity to multitask are pervasive. Although multitask...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Real world demonstration of how tribes determine opinions.

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From Satherley et al. : Real-world tests of the impact of partisan cues on voters are scarce because they require assessing how citizens’ ...
Wednesday, January 09, 2019

People use less information than they think to make up their minds

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Klein and O'Brien (open access, ) note another of our psychological biases or shortcomings. We perform Manichean good or bad characteri...
Tuesday, January 08, 2019

Stimulating creativity with alternating current transcranial brain stimulation

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So... the actual title of the article by Di Bernardi et al. is "Right temporal alpha oscillations as a neural mechanism for inhibiting...
Monday, January 07, 2019

The return of paganism

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Continuing in the thread of the 12/28/18 post below , I want to point to a piece by Ross Douthat that suggests the return (or emergence) of...
Friday, January 04, 2019

Yuval Harari - "21 Lessons..." abstracted - Part 5 - Resilience

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This is the fifth installment of clips taken from "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," Harari, Yuval Noah. Kindle Edition, Random Ho...