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Tag Archives: psychology
http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP07398441_c.pdf
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP07398441_c.pdf It's Fun To Be A Fundamentalist CC© Curtis Gregory Perry This study's uniquely broad based comparison of socioeconomic conditions in the most prosperous democracies confirms that they vary widely among these nations, and that the … Continue reading
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http://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/articles/greengross%20h…
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/articles/greengross humor 2008.pdf From the PDF: "Dissing Oneself versus Dissing Rivals: Effects of Status, Personality, and Sex on the Short-Term and Long-Term Attractiveness of Self-Deprecating and Other-Deprecating Humor" Thank goodness I lack the wit to engage … Continue reading
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Ethics Text page
Stumbleupon Review of : http://pirate.shu.edu/~mckenndo/ethics-Groupthink-Janus%20article.htm The origin of the term ‘groupthink’, essential reading for a party political age. Given the series of cautionary examples and the constant reaffirmation of norms, every dissenter is likely to feel under strong pressure to … Continue reading
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http://www.humphrey.org.uk/papers/1973IllusionOfBeauty.pdf
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.humphrey.org.uk/papers/1973IllusionOfBeauty.pdf The illusion of beauty “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” to the poet. But a biologist is bound, I think, to regard beauty–at least man-made beauty–as something closer to a lie. A lie, admittedly, of a … Continue reading
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Do You Mind?
Stumbleupon Review of : http://somethingincredible.blogspot.com/ “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” ~ Carl Sagan Why do people kill? Why do we sacrifice ourselves to save others from dying? Why do we close our eyes and try to ignore … Continue reading
Do You Mind?: How bout them apples?
Stumbleupon Review of : http://somethingincredible.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-bout-them-apples.html I guess what I’m trying to say is that you can’t change bad human behavior without changing the bad situation. But at the same time, changing the situation won’t fix everything. There will always be … Continue reading
Do You Mind?: Aggressive Personalities, or, The Magic of Testosterone
Stumbleupon Review of : http://somethingincredible.blogspot.com/2007/01/aggressive-personalities-or-magic-of.html In response to these studies, a new physiological model was made, to distinguish between controlled and impulsive aggression. This model drew upon a body of work showing that low serotonin levels led to general impulsive … Continue reading
SLS & Colloquia & The Obvious, R.D. Laing
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.laingsociety.org/biblio/theobvious.rdlaing.htm I started to try to see through the dense opacity of social events from the study of certain people who were labelled psychotic or neurotic, as seen in mental hospitals, psychiatric units and out-patient clinics. … Continue reading
Shimon Edelmans Experimental Epistemology Project
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Co-evolution of neocortex size, group size and language in humans
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/05/65/bbs00000565-00/bbs.dunbar.html From the page: “Group size is a function of relative neocortical volume in nonhuman primates. Extrapolation from this regression equation yields a predicted group size for modern humans very similar to that of certain hunter-gatherer … Continue reading