by Craig Marker | Nov 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Livescience.com discussing our ability to make decisions and worrying:Recent research by Louisa Egan, Laurie Santos and Paul Bloom at Yale University demonstrated with capuchin monkeys and 4-year-old kids that the ability to self-deceive is deeply...
by Craig Marker | Nov 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
Clive Thompson, describes in Wired how Halo 3 turned him into a suicide bomber.
by Craig Marker | Nov 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here are some interesting podcasts:Geneticist Armand Leroi discusses James Watson’s remarks on race and intelligence;Steve Pinker discusses the relationship between language and thought,and ABC radio a podcast on mental health and physical well-being.
by Craig Marker | Nov 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
Jon Haidt, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has written about morality. Specifically, he discusses 5 factors of morality. A video of his description can be found at the New Yorker 2012 Conference. Here is an excerpt of a NY Times description of his...
by Craig Marker | Nov 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
The Economist discusses a recent study looking at giving athletes a placebo that they believed was going to assist them in there performance. Here is an excerpt:In their new experiment, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, he and his colleagues...
by Craig Marker | Nov 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
The Language Log Blog has an interesting discussion of odds ratios being reported by the media: A few years ago, some researchers from Georgetown University published in the New England Journal of Medicine a study that demonstrated systematic race and sex bias in the...
