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Category: Cognitive Psychology
I've been meaning to post about this set of studies for a while, but because it's relevant to Chapter 4 of Lakoff's The Political Mind, I figured I'd better get around to it before I write the review of that...
Posted by Chris at 9:05 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Cognition
"They only care about themselves," "They're out of touch with reality," "They don't become academics." These are just some of the answers people yelled at me yesterday when I read out loud the title of a paper in the...
Posted by Chris at 4:05 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognitive Development
Who says religion and science can't go together well? I just read an interesting paper by Kinzler et al.(1), published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with apparent Biblical inspiration (OK, maybe not), as it...
Posted by Chris at 2:48 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
That's it! I'm never reading another imaging paper again, ever. OK, I might read one or two, and I might even post about them, but for now I'm telling myself, for my own sanity, that I'm never, ever, under any...
Posted by Chris at 9:43 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Cognition
I've been hanging out with fellow atheists for a while now, and one of the more common discussions I've had when the topic of religion comes up is, why are people religious? The two most common answers I've heard from...
Posted by Chris at 2:44 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Cognition
As I believe I've said before, if anything good has come from the Larry Summers debacle of a few years ago, it's that it inspired some really interesting research on gender differences in math. If you've been reading this blog...
Posted by Chris at 4:05 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Cognition
I've blogged about some great papers in the past, but today I'm blogging about the best... paper... ever. It's by Arina K. Bones, of the University of Darache in Monte Carlo, and Navin R. Johnson of Opti Corp, was published...
Posted by Chris at 12:51 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Cognition
Recently, several social psychologists have posited a "Whodunit" system in the brain that's always looking to assign authorship -- either our own or somebody else's -- to actions. Most of the time, it's pretty easy to tell when we've done...
Posted by Chris at 9:27 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Cognition
The uproar surrounding Larry Summers' remarks on women in science and engineering, made almost three years ago (man, I'm getting old!) has died down, but the literature on social/environmental factors responsible, at least in part, for the large gender disparities...
Posted by Chris at 12:09 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Cognition
Offered without comment (and sorry, only available with subscription; maybe I'll say something more about it later), except to say, why the hell am I not doing stuff with video games? Bartlett, C.P., Harrisa, R.J., & Brueya, C. (In Press)....
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