Psychology
- Cell Phone Ringtones- Familiar Songs Impair Learning
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Recent research says that talking on a cell phone poses a dangerous distraction for drivers and others whose attention should be focused elsewhere and now a new study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology finds that just the ring of a cell phone may b ...
Article - News Staff - May 30 2009 - 1:37pm
- The Buzzword Blog #4: Irrational
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The Buzzword Blog #4: Irrational What does 'irrational' mean? The term 'irrational' is too often just another buzzword. It is used very loosely, even by scientists, to imply that somebody has formed an opinion without thinking about ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 1 2009 - 7:46am
- Are You An Athlete Or A Jock?
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The terms 'athlete' and 'jock' are sometimes used interchangeably- especially be people who dislike athletes. And it's usually negative. Due to that, only 18 percent of students in a recent study strongly identified with the id ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2009 - 1:14pm
- When Things Smell A Funny Color
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When Things Smell A Funny Color I have often heard people in Britain say in jest something like: "I don't like that, it smells a funny color." From time to time our senses play tricks with our brains, and we 'hear' or 'smell& ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 1 2009 - 9:22pm
- On Miracles
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As I’ve often mentioned in this blog, philosopher David Hume famously said that “No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to est ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jun 2 2009 - 4:58pm
- Little Pigeon-Boxes
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Little Pigeon-Boxes It seems to be a universal characteristic of humans that we like to label each other, often in simplistic binary fashion. Friend or foe, left-wing or right-wing, smart or dumb, sane or psycho, we never seem to run out of pigeonholes i ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 2 2009 - 6:36pm
- The Luxury Of Belief
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In previous posts I have made the argument that the brain constructs a data organization framework which represents our worldview (or belief systems). It is against this structure that new information will be evaluated, accepted, or rejected. I also want t ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Jul 21 2009 - 11:06pm
- Obsessive-Compulsive Language Disorder
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Obsessive-Compulsive Language Disorder If you have never heard of Obsessive-Compulsive Language Disorder, don't worry. I just invented the expression to get your attention. In my article We Have Ways of Making You Conform, I state: "The natura ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 10 2009 - 3:29pm
- Dog's 'Guilty Look' Is All In Your Head
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Can you tell when your dog has done something wrong by his appearance? Not really, says Alexandra Horowitz, Assistant Professor from Barnard College in New York, in Behavioural Processes. It's mostly what you want to see. Horowitz was able to show ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2009 - 12:31pm
- IQ And The Values Of Nations: Or, How Your Country's IQ Affects Your Values
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We can measure what people prefer and value, but do we know why? And can we predict whether a nation will be liberal or conservative, atheist or religious, polygynous or monogamous? While researching for a forthcoming article I stumbled upon a paper by Sat ...
Article - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 16 2009 - 6:29pm
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