Psychology
- A Long Time Reading: Michael Shermer's Always Worth It
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Mabel and Shermer ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Jul 9 2011 - 4:30pm
- Opinion: Procol Harum Redux
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I stumbled upon the song “Conquistador” today and was stunned by the parallels between Procol Harum’s lyrical references to the Vietnam War and current US military actions. How many decisive victories can the United States claim since WWII? The only clear ...
Blog Post - Laura Hult - Jul 10 2011 - 3:01am
- Coffee and Catharsis- How are you helping?
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Many of my clients are expressing deep fears about the future. They are concerned quite naturally about their families, personal finances, and so forth, but also about global affairs. I am pleasantly surprised that so many people are now keeping up with c ...
Blog Post - Laura Hult - Jul 11 2011 - 8:18pm
- Women Fake It Less Than Men
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I just finished watching the Women's World Cup semifinal football match, USA versus France, and am currently preparing to watch Japan versus Sweden and an important difference is immediately noticeable about womens' matches compared to men's ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 13 2011 - 2:24pm
- The Broad Autism Phenotype: How Family Members Often Have Some Autistic Traits
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In the autism community, it can’t help but be noticed that a good portion of the parents of autistic kids deal with the same kinds ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Jul 17 2011 - 9:05pm
- Diet Psychology- People Eat Less When They Have Big Forks
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Larger portions mean we eat more food but bigger bites less intuitively lead to eating less in restaurants, according to new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. The authors conducted their study in an Italian restaurant by using two sizes of forks ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2011 - 9:47pm
- Rock-Paper-Scissors: Not So Random After All?
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Rock-paper-scissors (henceforth, it shall be known as RPS) is a game, or method to determine who has to do something nobody really wants to do. The rules are pretty well-known. The players simultaneously form a rock, paper or scissors gesture with their h ...
Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jul 20 2011 - 3:18am
- Born Evil: Is This The Rebirth Of Phrenology?
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There hasn't been much of a debate about this paper at Science 2.0, so I thought I might briefly review it, and see what everybody else thinks. But, before we start, I should make one thing clear. I'm not a psychologist. I'm not even an evol ...
Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jul 26 2011 - 6:22pm
- Maybe We Need A Geopolitical Rumspringa
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Norway just had a tragedy- the kind of random violence that social scientists, who we all wish would take a holiday during horrific events, will try and find correlation and causation for, like he was right wing or he was left wing or he was angry about fa ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 23 2011 - 1:34pm
- Hiccups And Ever-Expanding Comfort Zones: Coping Adaptively
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You know how you'll be swimming along (metaphorically), going, well geez, things are going pretty well, knock on wood? And then, bamm! You say those words, even invoking superstitious protections, and you're hit with anecdotal evidence that you s ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Jul 24 2011 - 9:41am
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