Wednesday, October 30, 2019

The miracle cure - just move

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A summary from the editor of the British Medical Journal of work by Ekelund et. al. : As miracle cures are hard to come by, any claims tha...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Feeling grateful - a shortcut to virtuous behavior.

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Psychologist David DeSteno, in an Aeon essay , summarizes his experiments suggesting that moving towards a more virtuous life might accompl...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Five myths about aging.

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I want to pass on a few clips from this piece by William Mair , who researches the biology of aging at Harvard: MYTH NO. 1 Biological agin...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

The Metamorphosis of the Western Soul

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I want to point to an article by Will Storr " The Metamorphosis of the Western Soul " that has been languishing for over a year in...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

Shape of your heart is determined by whether you run or sit.

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Shave et al. show that endurance runners and farmers have larger, elongated left ventricles with thin walls (traits that help pump large vo...
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Friday, October 18, 2019

The default mode network represents esthetic appeal.

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Vessel et al. note another role for the default mode network of our brain: Significance Despite being highly subjective, aesthetic exp...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Cross-national negativity bias in reacting to news

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There seems to be a world-wide anxiety industry of media that find maximum profits in presenting mostly negative news - in a way similar to...
Monday, October 14, 2019

An update on the science of ‘free will’

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I want to point to an excellent article by Gholilpour in the Atlantic Magazine that describes a reinterpretation of experiments by Libet ta...
Friday, October 11, 2019

More critique of work linking loving kindness meditation and cellular again

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In my Sept. 23 post, " Loving kindness meditation slows cellular aging ?", I gave a few of the reasons that the article triggered ...
Wednesday, October 09, 2019

Psilocybin + Mindfulness Meditation change brain connectivity - lasting positive effects

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Dolan points to work by Smigielski et al. : Both psychedelics and meditation exert profound modulatory effects on consciousness, perceptio...
Monday, October 07, 2019

Mindfulness doesn't reduce impulsive behavior.

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Korponay, Davidson and colleagues present results of a study that were contrary to their expectation that the practice of mindfulness medit...
Friday, October 04, 2019

Gender and race stereotypes - what's in a name...

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Eaton et al. give us more data on the application of gender and race stereotypes in academia: The current study examines how intersecting ...
Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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I want to point the subset of MindBlog readers interested in brain-behavior correlations to the journal “Social Cognitive and Affective Neur...
Monday, September 30, 2019

People of color - getting quantitative about police-involved deaths

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From Edwards et al. : Significance Police violence is a leading cause of death for young men in the United States. Over the life course,...
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'...