Deric Bownds

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• The Limits of Empathy

  I thought I would follow up the Monday's post on well being, kindness, happiness and all that good stuff by noting a piece on how feel-good energy can lead us... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Transferring from Google Reader to Feedly

  I've just finished editing and culling the "Other Mind Blogs" list in the right column of this blog. If you are now getting the feeds of any of these or... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• On Well-being - An Orgy of Good Energy Last Week in Madison, Wisconsin.

  In spite of slightly flippant title for this post, I really do believe this is good stuff. The Dali Lama paid a two day visit to Madison Wisconsin last week,... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• On Continuing MindBlog - Drawing Personal Structure from Sampling the Digital...

  The responses in comments and emails to my ‘scratching my head about mindblog’ post are telling me that my small contributions are valued, with some making it... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Deric’s MindBlog Spends Time in the Past...in the Future?

  

  The past: I’ve been spending the past two weeks in a former life. I was in Seattle last week to attend the annual meeting of ARVO (Assoc. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• MindBlog in Seattle This Week - Hiatus in Posts

  There will be a hiatus in MindBlog posts for awhile. I'm spending this week at an ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology) meeting where a... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Riding Other People's Coattails.

  Another interesting bit from Psychological Science: Two laboratory experiments and one dyadic study of ongoing relationships of romantic partners examined how... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Willpower and Abundance - The Case for Less.

  I wanted to pass on some clips from Tim Wu's sane commentary in The New Republic on the recent Diamandis and Kotler book "Abundance: The Future Is Better Than... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Overearning

  HHere is an interesting study from Hsee et al on our tendency to keeping working to earn more than we need for happiness, at the expense of that happiness. Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Slippery Slope of Fear

  LeDoux makes some useful comments on confusion one encounters in studies of fear, especially involving the amygdala, a clip: ‘Fear’ is used scientifically in tw... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Lessons Learned from a Chaos and Comlexity Seminar.

  For ~ 15 years I have participated in the weekly Chaos and Complexity seminar at the Univ. of Wisconsin organized by physics professor Clint Sprott, and have... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Teleological Reasoning About Nature: Intentional Design Or Relational...

  Ojalehto et al. offer an interesting analysis of assumptions about our reasoning about natural phenomena. Some slightly edited clips from the abstract and paper... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Brain Activity Correlating with Future Antisocial Activity.

  From Aharoni et al.: Identification of factors that predict recurrent antisocial behavior is integral to the social sciences, criminal justice procedures, and... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Body Posture Modulates Action Perception.

  From Zimmermann et al: Recent studies have highlighted cognitive and neural similarities between planning and perceiving actions. Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Quiet - the World of Introverts.

  I recently visited my year old grandson in Austin, TX., who turns out to be my opposite on Jerome Kagan's scale of temperamental introversion/extraversion. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• To Reader THW, Who Commented on the Free Will, Continued... Post, Please Read

  I hope I correctly recall THW as the blogger name of the person who submitted a comment on the previous post. On the road between Austin Tx. Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Free Will, Continued - Prior Unconscious Brain Activity Predicts Choices for...

  I've been running a thread on free will and neuroscience in this blog, recently noting comments by Nahmias: ...As long as people understand that discoveries... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Showing Where Moral Intent is Determined in Our Brains.

  Interesting work from Koster-Hale et al: Intentional harms are typically judged to be morally worse than accidental harms. Distinguishing between intentional... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Brain Training Games Don't Actually Make You Smarter.

  Wow...after having done several posts uncritically passing on studies by Jaeggi and others claiming that games to improve working memory, such as the n-Back... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Older Brains - Just as Much Nerve Firing, but Scrambled Connections?

  A group of colleagues at Imperial College London and Tsinghua University in Beijing have fitted glass windows on the skulls of old and young mice. Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE