Mixing Memory
Archives for February, 2007
Perceiving the Mind
Posted by Chris on February 5, 2007 There’s been a ton of research over the last decade or two on what is often called folk psychology or theory of mind (the latter is a bit theoretically loaded). That research concerns who has the ability to reason about other minds — do young children? autistic children? chimpanzees? dolphins? elephants? — and what that…
A Little Help
Posted by Chris on February 2, 2007 If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might remember my old posts on moral psychology (I’m too lazy to look them up and link them, right now, but if you really want to find them, I’ll do it). Well, after I discussed that research with a couple other psychologists who, it turns…
Week of Science Challenge
Posted by Chris on February 2, 2007 Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately, but I’m in the process of rolling out a couple new experiments, and the resulting headaches have left me with little time or energy. However, next week, there will be 7 science posts in 7 days, because the Just Science challenge begins on the 5th! If you haven’t…