Friday, January 29, 2021

Experienced well-being does increase above incomes of $75,000/year

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A research report from Matthew Killingsworth that contradicts a generally accepted result of past research:   Significance Past research...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Why do our brains dream?

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I want to point to a review by Nick Romeo of Zadra and Stickgold's new book " When Brains Dream ". The review summarizes impo...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

What Can Experimental Studies of Bias Tell Us About Real-World Group Disparities?

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Because, in my dim and distant past, I wrote an article that appeared in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (published by Cambridge University Pr...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The languages of human smell

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Majid does an interesting review titled " Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology " that points out ...
Monday, January 25, 2021

A broad approach to understanding emotions - Semantic Space Theory

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I recently offered a 14-installment series of posts covering the ideas in Lisa Feldman Barrett’s book “ How Emotions are Made: The Secret L...
Friday, January 22, 2021

The paradox of pleasurable fear.

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A study by Anderson et al. finds an inverted U-shaped relationship between fear and enjoyment, consistent with the theory that the pursuit ...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Most People are Good

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You really should read Mark Manson's newsletter for this week . As usual, it makes three main points, I will pass on only a few chunks: ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Data-driven solutions to U.S. polarization

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Today sees the inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States, and seems an appropriate time to pass on in its entirety the fol...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

A third visual pathway specialized for social perception.

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Fourty years after Ungerleider and Mishkin proposed our current model of the primate cortex as using two major visual pathway along its vent...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Endorsement of dominant masculinity best predicts 2016 and 2020 voting and candidate evaluations.

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Vescio and Schermerhorn carry out studies of several thousand individuals showing that men’s and women’s endorsement of hegemonic masculin...
Friday, January 15, 2021

How oxytocin enhances male sexual activity

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An article by Oti et al. in Current Biology makes me want to buy an oxytocin inhaler (just google oxytocin nasal spray). I'll pass on ...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

How technology destroys bonding cultural narratives

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I am on the mailing list of Mark Manson's weekly newsletter , find myself repeatedly annoyed by its arrogant tone and obscene prose, bu...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

How mice feel each other's pain or fear

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The abstract from Smith et al , who show the brain basis of empathetic behaviors in mice that mirror those in humans: Empathy is an essenti...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Cults, cabals, white power, and Trumpism

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The men of "all men are created equal" in the U.S. Declaration of Independence - white male property owners -  have remained the ...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Environmental noise degrades learning and memory

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Sobering observations from Zhang et al on our hippocampus-related learning and memory: Significance The noise pollution accompanying indu...
Friday, January 08, 2021

A reality-challenged America of echo chambers and cults

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Following the recent drama of a mob motivated by a fraudulent theory briefly taking over America's capitol building I want to pass on a ...
Thursday, January 07, 2021

Are we the cows of the future?

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One of the questions posed by Yuval Harari in his writing on our possible futures is "What are we to do with all these humans who are,...
Wednesday, January 06, 2021

Cuttlefish can pass the marshmellow test.

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Cephalopod mullusks like octopuses or cuttlefishes show remarkable intelligence. My most engaged and soothing viewing experience during the ...
Tuesday, January 05, 2021

The brains of friends have similar brain functional connectivities.

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From Hyhon et al. :  Significance In what ways are we similar to our friends? Here, we characterized the social network of residents of a ...
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Monday, January 04, 2021

The changing geography of social mobility in the United States

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From Connor and Storper : New evidence shows that intergenerational social mobility—the rate at which children born into poverty climb the...