Psychology
- Teach Your Toddler Perfect Pitch: Diana Deutsch, President Of The Society For Music Perception And Cognition
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Conventional wisdom holds you're born with perfect pitch or you're not. The conventional wisdom is wrong. Here's how to train perfect pitch. For my book Brain Trust, I interviewed Diana Deutsch, University of California San Diego professor ...
Article - Garth Sundem - Jan 31 2012 - 11:19am
- Hardwired For The Mystical?
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The gap between atheists and the religious seems at times to be an impossible divide, almost as if believers and non-believers come from different species. What separates the secular from the sacred? An "Ask the Brains" question on the Scientific ...
Article - Michael W. Taft - Feb 8 2012 - 4:37pm
- It's Valentine's Day: Give Us A Break
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There's a joke that goes when a man gets married, his wife changes everything about him and then complains he's not the man she married. While it isn't entirely true, the sentiment goes both ways. So if your significant other makes a romanti ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2012 - 4:01am
- Je Alarme! To Canadian Kids, Cows Are Boys And Cats Are Girls
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A recent study by University of Alberta researchers Elena Nicoladis and Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology wanted to see whether speaking French (being bilingual) influenced how children assigned gender to objects. It y ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2012 - 2:44pm
- Why Evolutionary Psychology Pisses You Off (And Why Maybe It Shouldn't)
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If you want to irritate a lot of people at once, write an article about evolutionary psychology. Publishing such an article will invariably provoke a firestorm of denunciations and criticisms. Given the vehemence of these attacks, you couldn’t be blamed fo ...
Article - Michael W. Taft - Mar 2 2012 - 11:20pm
- Book Review: Cindy Ariel's Loving Someone With Asperger's Syndrome
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Part guidebook, part workbook, Ariel's book for neurotypical partners is sure to be considered a boon for spouses who know almost nothing about Asperger's Syndrome. Written by Cindy Ariel, a licensed psychologist who provides therapy for a v ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Mar 3 2012 - 12:26pm
- How to win hearts (votes) and approval in democracy?
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If scientists could develop modelling system to predict the yield of a crop in particular area and time by calculating parameters of soil moisture, soil pH, rainfall, temperature range etc there should be some psychological method to gauze the mind of a vo ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Mar 6 2012 - 1:06pm
- Requiem for Humanity — Predestination
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PREDESTINATION ...
Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Mar 7 2012 - 3:14pm
- Requiem for Humanity — Human Instincts
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HUMAN INSTINCTS ...
Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Mar 8 2012 - 5:53pm
- This Is The Song That Never Ends: Facilitated Communication
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Yesterday, I wrote a post about how facebook is a rapid, easy way to spread misinformation and pseudoscience, and the difficulties in figuring out how to respond to pseudoscience when you see it. I wasn't specific about what triggered it, but I reac ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Mar 26 2012 - 10:21am
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