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March 27, 2007
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Some of you may find this book chapter interesting: Hauer, M.D., Young, L., & Cushman, F. (in press): Reviving Rawls' Linguistic Analogy: Operative principles and the causal structure of moral actions. In Moral Psychology and Biology....
Posted by Chris at 12:18 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
Research on the role of emotion/intuition in moral judgments is really heating up. For decades (millennia, even), moral judgment was thought to be a conscious, principle-based process, but over the last few years, researchers have been showing that emotion and...
Posted by Chris at 8:47 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2007
Category: Cognitive Psychology
When I was an undergrad, my intro psych professor mentioned research in industrial/organizational psychology indicating that the color red causes people to be happier and more productive, while blue makes people sadder and less productive. Later I was taught...
Posted by Chris at 8:37 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 25, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
I have to do a little fatherly bragging. My son (#3) started playing baseball this year. He's 9, so he's starting a bit later -- much later than almost all of the players in his league. So he's got...
Posted by Chris at 5:29 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2007
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
With a paper by Freedberg and Gallese, to be published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, mirror neurons have made their way into neuroaesthetics (at some point, someone like Gallese will publish a paper arguing that mirror neurons explain everything, and...
Posted by Chris at 10:24 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 14, 2007
Category: Cognitive Psychology
I'm sure you've all long forgotten about the framing project that I discussed on this blog late last year, but in case someone out there remembers it, I wanted to give you an update. I still want to collect the...
Posted by Chris at 5:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 13, 2007
Category: Social Cognition
It turns out that Jeremy of PsyBlog is currently running a study on music and personality in the UK. So if you're reading this, and you live on one of those islands, you should go here and participate....
Posted by Chris at 7:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
Since we now know that a person's music says a lot about what that person's like, I thought I'd tell you a little bit about myself by sharing some of my music. I can't give you a list of my...
Posted by Chris at 12:36 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Cognition
I went to a high school at a time (one not that different from most others, I imagine) when musical preferences were a good clue to social group membership. There were, for example, the punks who listened to, well, punk;...
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March 6, 2007
Category: Social Cognition
In the discussion that resulted from the last couple posts on religion, a lot of claims have been made, all of which are empirical claims, and all of which thereby require data. But of course, there's not a whole lot...
Posted by Chris at 4:23 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
