Neuropsychology
Healthy Thoughts Create Healthy Hormones
In case you’ve forgotten, a hormone is a chemical released by one or more cells that affects cells in other parts of the organism. ‘What determines which of the chemicals that are released by the brain? Your thoughts, your beliefs, and your perceptions – your mind interpreting the world. My perception of someone I love […]
New School of Thought Divides Social Psychologists
Failure to replicate intelligence-priming effects ignites row in research community ‘…In their paper, Shanks and his colleagues tried to obtain an intelligence-priming effect, following protocols in Dijksterhuis’s papers or refining them to amplify any theoretical effect (for example, by using a test of analytical thinking instead of general knowledge). They also repeated intelligence-priming studies from […]
Putin’s Take on the Boston Bombing
‘…It’s a new take on the “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” and one that’s not entirely without merit, since not everyone in America was willing to connect the Chechnyan war to the larger “global war on the terror” of the last decade. Though incidents like the Moscow subway bombing and the Beslan […]
The Dirty and Dangerous Side of Tech
Many lives are being saved with hi-tech. But we can never be sure how many are dying because of it ‘…I want the lightest yet fastest laptop, the coolest smartphone, the biggest HDTV, and a professional sound system. But I can’t remain ignorant to the inconvenient fact that there is poison in our tech. Our […]
How Ancient Greece Managed Serial Killers
Media Should Treat Killers Like Ancient Greece Did There was a death penalty law for anyone who mentions a mass killer’s name For mass killers, no name, no fame — forever ‘…To keep him from profiting by his crime in the way he most ardently desired — and to discourage imitators — the Ephesians passed […]
“Health” Companies to Avoid in 2013
‘Recently California had the opportunity to force GM foods to be labelled under Proposition 37. Thanks to a massive campaign on the part of corporations using GM foods, the bill was shot down. Based on the research of The Cornucopia Institute, here are some of the companies who opposed this important legislation. In other words, […]
America’s Gun Economy
By the Numbers ‘The shooting in Newtown, Conn., that killed six adults and 20 children on Friday has once again refocused the nation’s attention on guns and gun control. Below are numbers to give some sense of the size and scope of the gun industry in America, the federal government’s involvement in regulating that industry, […]
How Powerful is Willpower?
Seven Productivity Myths, Debunked by Science During the mid 70s, Honda made the Japanese word ‘mugen’ (means ‘unlimited’ (power)) popular in motocross sport. Of course the meaning is figurative. Does unlimited power exist in human mind too? I say that’s against logic. If our minds have unlimited power, that would mean we can control nature, […]
Weird Things People Do During Sleep
Texting now included in list ‘More than 30% of the UK population currently suffers from insomnia or another sleep disorder, according to the Mental Health Foundation. This can have serious mental and physical consequences. ‘Clinics say they are getting up to 50 new referrals a week. It’s a fivefold increase in just a decade for […]
New Test for Psychopaths
Are You a Psychopath? Take the Test You are standing behind a very large stranger on a footbridge above the tracks. The only way to save the five people is to heave the stranger over. He will fall to a certain death. But his considerable girth will block the trolley, saving five lives. Should you […]
