It's not correlation/causation (though less and less is, since science has learned that causation is now teaching us less and less about how to actually fix things) but some in the social fields are claiming there are biological truths to stereotypes about the left and right, like that progressives are self-indulgent and clueless on national issues while conservatives are fear-mongers with a...
read moreIf a crime occurs, asking the criminal what happened is unlikely to give you the most accurate picture of events. This is why police interview the victim first. So an evolutionary psychologist outlining how great evolutionary psychology is has to be taken with a grain of salt; no one becomes a professor in a field and then decides it is a lot of woo. read...
read moreA study in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by some folks at University of Notre Dame conducted three experiments and concluded that if you walk into a room and forget what you came to do, the doorway is responsible.The environment can likely affect memory, we get that - I have often forgotten to take out the garbage even though my wife insists she told me to do so, because I...
read moreIf you've ever thought you were being abducted by an alien or, if you are 400 years old, seduced by a succubus, and couldn't move, you are not alone. A new article in Sleep Medicine Reviews says 7.6% of the population has had the same experience and it's called sleep paralysis.The psychologists define sleep paralysis as "a discrete period of time during which voluntary muscle movement is...
read moreIf you've ever thought you were being abducted by an alien or, if you are 400 years old, seduced by a succubus, and couldn't move, you are not alone. A new article in Sleep Medicine Reviews says 7.6% of the population has had the same experience and it's called sleep paralysis.The psychologists define sleep paralysis as "a discrete period of time during which voluntary muscle movement is...
read moreIn a few short hours, the World Series will begin between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals. In the midst of all the talk of how offense is winning games this year (team Earned Run Average by starters in the post-season is over 5) and the strategic match-ups, there will be little attention paid to the belief engines in the skulls of individual players; their brains. read...
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