Psychology
- Facial Expressions And Value Judgments- We Detect Happy Before Sad
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People make value judgements about others based on their facial expressions, according to a new study carried out by Spanish and Brazilian researchers. After looking at a face for only 100 milliseconds, we can detect expressions of happiness and surprise f ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2009 - 11:02am
- The Final User
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After the Pandora vase of Berlusconi's private life got opened, there are news trickling out from it every day. In the last few days we learned that the parties thrown by the Italian premier in his billionaire villa in Sardinia, or at his residence in ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 18 2009 - 2:11am
- A Science Of Human Language- Part #1
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A Science Of Human Language- Part #1 Quistic Grammar: A New Universal Grammar In this series of articles I hope to build, on a sure foundation, a theory which explains language as a means by which evolution can encode information of value to the survival ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 20 2009 - 12:24pm
- IQ And The Values Of Nations: Part II
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In the first article on this topic, I suggested that we can measure what people prefer and value, but we don’t know the “why” behind those preferences and values. An evolutionary psychologist from the London School of Economics, Satoshi Kanazawa, wrote a ...
Article - Becky Jungbauer - Jun 19 2009 - 12:42pm
- A Science Of Human Language- Part #2
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A Science Of Human Language- Part #2 Quistic Grammar: A New Universal Grammar In Part #1 of this series, I suggested that a grammar heavily based in syntax was not sufficiently scientific as a general theory of how language functions. In developing the c ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 20 2009 - 12:11pm
- A Science Of Human Language- Part #3
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A Science Of Human Language- Part #3 In Part #1 of this series, I suggested that a grammar heavily based in syntax was not sufficiently scientific as a general theory of how language functions. Part #2 was an overview of how linguistic error-handling proc ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 23 2009 - 6:50am
- 'Dialect' Not Just For Languages But Also For Food?
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Where we are born not only determines how we speak apparently how we taste food and drink, according to Andy Taylor, a researcher in flavor technology at The University of Nottingham and Greg Tucker, a food psychologist. The taste preferences of the UK� ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2009 - 10:15am
- A Science Of Human Language- Part #4
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A Science Of Human Language- Part #4 In Part #1 of this series, I suggested that a grammar heavily based in syntax was not sufficiently scientific as a general theory of how language functions. Part #2 was an overview of how linguistic error-handling pr ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 23 2009 - 10:45pm
- A Science Of Human Language- Part #5
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A Science Of Human Language- Part #5 This article is a continuation and expansion of the theory of mental models, introduced in part #4. ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 23 2009 - 10:43pm
- Review- Pedophilia: Neuropsychological Evidence Encouraging A Brain Network Perspective
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In a unique study of four previously convicted adult male pedophiles (Mage = 33.8, SD 9.7 years), utilizing structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and imaging genomics (neuroimaging combined with genetic analyses), the authors propose that small vari ...
Article - Laura Hult - Jun 30 2009 - 1:30pm
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