by Craig Marker | Nov 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from a NY Times Column:So the cause is, essentially, that people eat too much; and the cure is, essentially, to eat less. But bariatric surgery seems to fit in nicely with the tenor of our times. Consider, for instance, the game shows we watch. The old...
by Craig Marker | Nov 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
Alexander Wolff wrote an article describing his analysis of the Sports Illustrated jinx. Here is an excerpt of his sidebar with some background about the article: [W]e conducted a thorough exploration of what happened to everyone who has appeared on our cover … On the...
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...
by Craig Marker | Oct 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
Similar to Dan Gilbert and Tim Wilson’s work on affective forcasting, a new article was recently published in Psychological Science investigating how we predict we will feel. In one of the experiments, 27 students were asked to predict the grade they would...
by Craig Marker | Oct 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
Livescience.com has an interesting article on the psychology of baseball. Here is an excerpt: “Beane was just sort of crushed by the pressure of the batter’s box, just didn’t have that sort of self-confidence, almost arrogance, just to know, ‘I...
