Deric Bownds
These articles, from Deric's MindBlog at http://mindblog.dericbownds.net report new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff.
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Deric Bownds' MindBlog
http://mindblog.dericbownds.net/
This blog reports new ideas and work on mind, brain, and behavior - as well as random curious stuff.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 2494 )
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Debussy La Plus Que Lente - a First Musical Offering from Austin Texas.
This is a personal post, a musical offering of the sort I have done on MindBlog in previous years. The Steinway B that I have used since 2002 recently moved wit... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Digital Mass Persuasion Via Psychological Targeting.
Sigh...we're heading full-tilt towards a plutocracy which will manipulate the masses via technologies of the sort described by Matz et al. Read more
Posted on 13 December 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Trauma is Passed Over Generations.
Bakalar points to work by Santavirta et al. showing that the daughters of women exposed to childhood trauma are at increased risk for psychiatric disorders. Read more
Posted on 12 December 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How is American (and World) Governance Evolving?
So... what is the United State to become? From the recent outpouring of Op-Ed pieces you can take your choice: Autocracy, Plutocracy, Oligarchy, Kleptocracy...... Read more
Posted on 11 December 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Dogs Can Smell Our Happiness and Fear.
From D'Aniello et al: We report a study examining interspecies emotion transfer via body odors (chemosignals). Do human body odors (chemosignals) produced... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Evil is Tech?
The title of this post is from an Op-Ed piece by David Brooks. Some clips: There are three main critiques of big tech. The first is that it is destroying the... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Trust and Cooperation Across Societies.
Romano et al. (open source) offer, in a study over 17 countries, an example of the kind of research needed to understand and enhance cooperation within and... Read more
Posted on 06 December 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Emotional Political Base Supporting the Consolidation of the U.S. Plutocracy.
I want to pass on the ending paragraphs from a piece by Fareed Zakaria: Is it that the Republican Party is cleverly and successfully hoodwinking its... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Mind Reading Machine?
Not quite, but Matthew Hutson points to work by Wen et al. using an artificial neural network to categorize fMRI signals from subjects watching different... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Bringing Big Science to Psychology
Chawla describes a new initiative dubbed the "Psychological Science Accelerator" (PSA) that: ...has so far forged alliances with more than 170 laboratories on... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Speed of Processing Training Results in Lower Risk of Dementia
While brain training exercises in general are not receiving a very good press these days, experiments testing effects of BrainHQ's speed of processing exercise... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Behavior Modification Empires.
I have to pass on this clip from a Maureen Dowd interview of Jaron Lanier Mr. Lanier believes that Facebook and Google, with their “top-down control schemes,”... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
People Who Seek Solitude Are More Creative.
Ingraham points to an article by Bowker et al. that makes me feel better about my desire for and comfort with a substantial period of solitude each day. Read more
Posted on 28 November 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How to Turn Conservatives into Liberals.
John Bargh and collaborators have done another interesting piece of work on how implicit biases can influence us. I pass on their abstract and the first part... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Common Cause of Jihad and the Alt-Right
I pass on some clips from an essay by Scott Atran, who is the director of research in anthropology at the CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, and a senior research... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain.
Thanksgiving day is an appropriate time to point to two articles from the Greater Good Magazine. Wong and Brown describe work on writing gratitude letters... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
A Debate on the Pros and Cons of Aging and Death.
I want to pass on the final comments from a debate between Allen Frances (a professor emeritus at Duke University who was the chairman of the DSM-IV task... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Building Artificial Intelligence That Can Build Artificial Intelligence
This gets scarier and scarier. Clips from an article by Cade Metz: ...perhaps a nightmare for highly skilled computer programmers: artificially intelligent... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Buddhism is More Western Than You Think.
Robert Wright does a review of Adam Gopnik’s review (in the New Yorker) of Wright’s book “Why Buddhism Is True.” The whole piece is very clearly written and... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Emotional Intelligence of One- to Four-year-olds
Interesting work from Wu et al. showing young children connect diverse positive emotional vocalizations to their probable causes, showing more sophisticated... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE