Psychology
- Prejudice Is A Basic Human Need
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Prejudice is just bigotry that arises from flawed ideology, right? Not so, say the authors of a new paper. They contend prejudice stems from a deeper psychological need and it is associated with a particular way of thinking. People who aren't comfor ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2011 - 11:31pm
- Cell Phones, Driving, And Multitasking
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This December the National Transportation Safety Board of the U.S. recommended a nationwide ban on cell phone use while driving. According to NTSB member Robert Sumwalt, "This (distracted driving) is becoming the new DUI. It's becoming epidemic.” ...
Article - Michael W. Taft - Dec 31 2011 - 1:28pm
- Biological Politics? Out-Of-Touch Liberals And Fear-Mongering Conservatives
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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 ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 6 2012 - 11:22am
- The GOP Primary: A Predictable Storm
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Who do you think will win the Republican presidential nomination? Obsession with this question possesses the entire United States. Today a brief search on Google for “GOP primary prediction” returned close to 40 million results. Over the past few months, t ...
Article - Michael W. Taft - Jan 13 2012 - 1:55am
- Redefining Autism For DSM-V
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Changes to the diagnostic definition of autism will be published in the fifth edition of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders"- DSM V- but exactly what those changes will be is a key point of discussion. There are still a lo ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 22 2012 - 7:53pm
- How To Learn-- From Robert Bjork, Director Of UCLA Learning And Forgetting Lab
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Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? All are exactly opposite the best strategies for learning. Really, I recently had the good fortune to interview Robert Bjork, director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting La ...
Article - Garth Sundem - Jan 28 2012 - 5:15pm
- 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