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Category: Culture
Arnold Kling highlights this section from a Scientific American article, The Science of Economic Bubbles and Busts: But behavioral economics experiments routinely show that despite similar outcomes, people (and other primates) hate a loss more than they desire a gain,...
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Category: Cognitive Science
Related to yesterday's post,The neural bases of empathic accuracy: Theories of empathy suggest that an accurate understanding of another's emotions should depend on affective, motor, and/or higher cognitive brain regions, but until recently no experimental method has been available to...
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Category: Genetics
Why We Stare, Even When We Don't Want To: "When a face is distorted, we have no pattern to match that," Rosenberg said. "All primates show this [staring] at something very different, something they have not evolved to see. They...
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Category: Cognitive Science
The Neurocritic points me to a paper, The brain structural disposition to social interaction: Social reward dependence (RD) in humans is a stable pattern of attitudes and behaviour hypothesized to represent a favourable disposition towards social relationships and attachment as...
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Category: Culture
Andrew Gelman has a post up titled Difficulties in trying to understand the views of others, responding to a Robin Hanson taxonomy outline the motivations of liberals, conservatives and libertarians. Gelman is skeptical of Hanson's glosses of each group. The...
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Category: Culture
David Brooks has a column out where he mulls over the role of time invested in amplifying talent: If you wanted to picture how a typical genius might develop, you'd take a girl who possessed a slightly above average verbal...
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Category: Culture
I first encountered Dan Ariely on the radio show Marketplace, where he offers up little nuggets of research data from the new field of behavioral economics. Because of the individual scale of the research many of Ariely's findings have some...
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Category: Cognitive Science
Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man. Also check out the GNXP interview with Pinker from 2 years ago....
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Category: Cognitive Science
Steven Pinker has a new essay in The New York Times Magazine, The Moral Instinct. Chris of Mixing Memory is critical of Pinker when he goes outside of his specialization in the psychology of language...but I did enjoy the ending:...
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Category: Cognitive Science
Salon has a must read interview of Steven Pinker & Rebecca Goldstein....
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