Friday, September 27, 2019

Red and Blue Voters Live in Different Economies

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Wow... if you want some graphics that powerfully describe our current political malaise, check out Edsall's Op-Ed piece in the NYTimes ....
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Mindfulness training and attentional control of mind-wandering

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Several studies have suggested that mindfulness training can strengthen the connections between the networks in our dorsolateral prefrontal ...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Loving kindness meditation slows cellular aging?

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I like to be generous, loving, kind and nice, but a recent PsyPost article on the slowing of cellular aging by loving-kindness meditation t...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Gender neutral pronouns reduce bias in favor of traditional gender roles

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An interesting study by Tavits and Pérez on Sweden's 2015 incorporation into the Swedish Academy Glossary (which sets norms for Sweden&...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

The power of "cute"

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I want to point MindBlog readers to an article by Simon May at aeon.co that encapsulates the contents of his new book "The Power of Cu...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Psychological adaptation to the apocalypse - meditate, or just be happy?

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In this post, not exactly an upper, I point first to two in-your-face articles on how we ought to be afraid, very afraid, about humanity'...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Twitter is making us dumber.

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Stanley-Becker points to some research providing hardly surprising evidence that communicating about complex issues using 280 character ch...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Can we reverse our biological age? The usual media hysteria...

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I must have seen at least 10 of my media inputs hyping a small study by Fahy et al. (9 white men, and lacking controls) pointed to by Abbott...
Monday, September 09, 2019

Training to reduce cognitive biases.

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Sellier et al. show that students assigned to solve a business case exercise are less likely to choose an inferior confirmatory solution w...
Friday, September 06, 2019

How personal and professional conduct relate to one another.

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From Griffin et al. : Significance The relative importance of personal traits compared with context for predicting behavior is a long-s...
Wednesday, September 04, 2019

Training wisdom - the Illeist (third person) method.

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I think my most sane moments are those when I experience myself as watching, in third-person mode, rather than “being” Deric, the immersed a...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Infants expect leaders to right wrongs

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From Stavans and Baillargeon : Anthropological and psychological research on direct third-party punishment suggests that adults expect the ...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Loss of control in aging cells.

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Wow...experiments like those of Pereda et al. make me feel rather fatalistic and resigned to the aging process, notwithstanding all the num...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Interindividual variability - rather than universality - in facial-emotion perception.

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Brooks et al. do experiments suggesting that the representational structure of emotion expressions in visual face-processing regions may be...
Monday, August 26, 2019

From "Love Your Enemies" - Arthur Brooks on Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory

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I have read through Arthur Brooks' new book, "Love your Enemies," which addresses the many facets of our current political pol...
Friday, August 23, 2019

What we see is biased by ongoing neural activity.

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Rassi et al. (open source) show that ongoing neural activity in our brain, as in the fusiform face area, can influence what we perceive in ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

More diversity in Flow-land.

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I will pass on part of an email from Mr. Todd Denen occasioned by my 8/16/19 post, in which he assures me, that unlike the Flow Genome Proj...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

What we see is influenced by what we can do about it

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Djebbara et al. do experiments that resolve an ancient debate on the relationship between cognition, movement, and environment, showing tha...
Friday, August 16, 2019

A Schism in Flow-land? Flow Genome Project vs. Flow Research Collective

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In Nov. 2017 I did a scathing review of  the "Stealing Fire" book by Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler - in support of expensive work...
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How weight training changes the brain.

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Gretchen Reynolds points to work by Kelty et al. showing that weight training in rats can ameliorate mild cognitive impairment in rats ind...