Psychology

Stop The Madness- Female Shopping Is Evolution And The Mall Is The Lab?

I just noticed a study from a few months back that correlated male shopping habits to... evolution.   Yes, the necessary survival skills that women used for foraging and men used to hunt evolved into the inability of men to match socks and the reason women ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 11 2010 - 2:14pm

Superstition Validated? Only When It Works

Superstition may work if you think it works.   If only voodoo were so easy, we'd love to have an army of zombies at our command. But people, and certainly athletes, maintain any number of superstitious rituals, so Lysann Damisch, Barbara Stoberock and ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2010 - 5:52pm

Sex Makes You Smarter- Can 'Virtual Sex' Do The Same?

It has been known for quite some time that exercise promotes neurogenesis, but now a study by Leuner, Glasper, and Gould, published by PLoS ONE this month, claims that the most intimate form of exercise- sexual activity- can produce the same effects.  And ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Jul 27 2010 - 10:58pm

When Parents Kill: Filicide Usually Accompanied by mental illness

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Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jul 22 2010 - 7:43pm

The Evolutionary Illogic Of Crime, Punishment, And Attention

The attention we give to (or withhold from) tragedies has little to do with numbers: many hundreds can die in a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe or hundreds of thousands in an earthquake in China and it receives  nowhere near the press and public outrage as n ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jul 30 2010 - 12:30am

The Logic Of Illogical Optimism

I was on the phone the other night with a friend. She is in a bit of bind. Every conversation we’ve had recently, we’ve been doing the same thing. We analyze every minutiae of her situation, as women are wont to, and come to the same conclusion. Things ar ...

Article - Asha John - Jul 30 2010 - 10:49am

The Science Of Pleasure: Part One- The Allure Of Asymmetry

What happens in your brain when you experience pleasure? Why are fantasies so powerful? Why do our brains love dopamine so much? Why do some images arouse, while others turn us off? Why are the most attractive people often not the ones we are most drawn to ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Jul 30 2010 - 8:20am

Good News, Science 2.0 Writers- Women Prefer Arrogant Men

Let's be honest- in the 21st century the wussification of men has been in full force.   Being a man is out if that means not being a politically correct, hyper-sensitive, asexual, homogenized follower of all that is cool and popular among the cultural ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 20 2012 - 5:36pm

Hedge Fund Managers, Uncertainty And Storytelling

My last post got me thinking a bit more about uncertainty and decision making. It reminded me of a podcast I had listened to a while back, on uncertainty, storytelling and hedge fund managers. It is based on the work of David Tuckett at University College ...

Article - Asha John - Aug 1 2010 - 12:27am

The Brain on Stories

In my last post I wrote about how Hedge Fund managers base their choices on “stories” they weave with the information they gather. If you believe in rationality and evidence based thinking, the thought that these men responsible for such obscene amounts of ...

Blog Post - Asha John - Aug 2 2010 - 10:19pm