Why We Lie - 0 views
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Adam Clark on 11 Oct 12Nice look at non-intuitive findings
What Galileo has to do with the economy, or how Wall Street is moulding your taste in art.
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Your brain sees things you don't - 0 views
The Psychology of Cheating - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The Psychology of Cheating - http://nyti.ms/exyLSP #edchat #schoolcounseling
Attachment to cellphones more about entertainment, less about communication - 0 views
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"That panicked feeling we get when the family pet goes missing is the same when we misplace our mobile phone" http://j.mp/mJ4VZH #tech
US courts see rise in defendants blaming their brains for criminal acts | World news | ... - 0 views
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"Criminal courts in the United States are facing a surge in the number of defendants arguing that their brains were to blame for their crimes and relying on questionable scans and other controversial, unproven neuroscience, a legal expert who has advised the president has warned."
Psychological impact of Japan disaster will be felt 'for some time to come' - 0 views
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Psychological impact of #Japan disaster will be felt 'for some time to come' http://j.mp/i03n18
No such thing as 'right-brained' or 'left-brained,' new research finds - 0 views
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"The terms "left-brained" and "right-brained" have come to refer to personality types in popular culture, with an assumption that people who use the right side of their brains more are more creative, thoughtful and subjective, while those who tap the left side more are more logical, detail-oriented and analytical."
Happier in a crowd? New study may explain why - Medical News Today - 0 views
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"For many of us, being in a large crowd can be a stressful experience. But for some, this type of environment can make a person feel at their happiest. Now, a new study published in the journal PLOS One suggests reasons behind these different feelings about busy environments."
Cure for love: Should we take anti-love drugs? - opinion - 13 February 2014 - New Scien... - 0 views
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"Recent brain studies show extensive parallels between the effects of certain addictive drugs and experiences of being in love. Both activate the brain's reward system, can overwhelm us so that we forget about other things and can inspire withdrawal when they are no longer available. It seems it isn't just a cliché that love is like a drug: in terms of effects on the brain, they may be neurochemically equivalent."
Monoculture: How Our Era's Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives | Brain Pickings - 1 views
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The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” poet Muriel Rukeyser famously proclaimed.
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During the Middle Ages, the dominant monoculture was one of religion and superstition. When Galileo challenged the Catholic Church’s geocentricity with his heliocentric model of the universe, he was accused of heresy and punished accordingly, but he did spark the drawn of the next monoculture, which reached a tipping point in the seventeenth century as humanity came to believe the world was fully knowable and discoverable through science, machines and mathematics — the scientific monoculture was born.
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Could be a great jumping off point for a presentation.
New study says Internet could be why Americans are losing their religion - Salon.com - 0 views
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"New research from Allen Downey, a computer scientist at Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, shows a startling correlation between the rise of the Internet and the decline of religious affiliation in the United States. According to MIT Technology Review, back in 1990 only eight percent of the U.S. population did not have a religious affiliation. Twenty years later in 2010 that number was up to 18 percent. That is a jump of 25 million people. Americans seem to be losing their religion, and from Downey's research we may have an answer."
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