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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
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: Culture
The episode is titled "your brains & your genes." There's more emphasis on economics than you think....
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Category: Psychology
David Brooks has a new column grandly titled The End of Philosophy. Heather Mac Donald at Secular Right chides him for his criticism of the New Atheists, while John Derbyshire offers guarded praise. It seems to me that the jab...
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Category: Psychology
Neural Markers of Religious Conviction: Many people derive peace of mind and purpose in life from their belief in God. For others, however, religion provides unsatisfying answers. Are there brain differences between believers and nonbelievers? Here we show that religious...
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Category: Psychology
Even Bernard Madoff Doesn't Deserve This:Remember Jeffrey Skilling? Losses to Enron shareholders of more than $1 billion largely determined his 24-year-plus sentence. Or consider WorldCom's former chief, Bernard J. Ebbers. He got 25 years based principally on the $2.2 billion...
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Category: Psychology
A correspondent forward me this paper, The intelligence-religiosity nexus: A representative study of white adolescent Americans: The present study examined whether IQ relates systematically to denomination and income within the framework of the g nexus, using representative data from the...
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Category: Psychology
The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs: One crucial element for the evolution of cooperation may be the sensitivity to others' efforts and payoffs compared with one's own costs and gains. Inequity aversion is thought to be the...
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Category: Psychology
Allen MacNeill of the Evolution List has a new weblog, Evolutionary Psychology. Check it out....
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Category: Psychology
Will Wilkinson and Jon Haidt just did a bloggingheads.tv. I've blogged Haidt's ideas before (Chris is skeptical). During this bloggingheads.tv interview Haidt lays out the difference between college age liberals and other societies with a scenario where a beloved dog...
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