Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2562 )

• Carbs and Self Control.

  From Molden et al. suggest the increase in self control that some studies have correlated with carbohydrate consumption is caused not by a metabolic energy... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Self Awarenss and Our "spider Jar"

  Margit Hesthammer writes a lovely piece for the opinionator section of the NYTimes that has me thinking "I wish I had written that. Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Giving Time Gives You Time.

  In the same vein as Monday's post, Mogilner et al. note another activity that expands our subjective sense of time: Results of four experiments reveal a... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mental Time Travel and Our Brain's Default Network.

  Here is some interesting material from Østby et al. on the brain basis of the quality of our remembering the past or imagining the future: A core brain... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Awe is Good for You…

  What could most of us could do to chill out and expand our subjective sense of time? Feel a sense of awe more often! Rudd et. al. Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Decreased Amygdala Neuroplasticity Linked to Early-life Anxious Temperament.

  Some interesting work from the research groups of my University of Wisconsin colleagues Ned Kalin and Richard Davidson that suggests that altered amygdala... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Biology of Social Adversity.

  PNAS has done a special issue on the biology of adversity. I mention only a few of the articles here: Ziol-Guest et al. show that low income, particularly in... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa.

  

  Jack et al. have performed a study (online in accepted articles in the journal Neuroimage) observing brain activity in subjects while they were engaged in socia... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Physiological Benefits of Leadership - Importance of a Sense of Control

  An edited paste-up from Sapolsky's brief review pointing to work of Sherman et al. showing that leaders feeling a sense of control have lower stress levels. Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2012 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Oxytocin Facilitates Protective Responses to Aversive Social Stimuli in Men..

  More in the thread from last Friday's post, in this case on how our brain biases responses to positive and negative social stimuli. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Selective Magnetic Zap Can Alter Belief Formation in Our Brains.

  Dolan and collaborators continue the thread of work I mentioned first in a post last year, on our brain's rose colored glasses, how we are more likely to... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• I R’ Us - a Waking Mashup

  When I am going through the daily transition from the last bit of REM sleep to having an awake self I frequently find articles I have recently noted appear in... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mouse Song: Features Similar to Human and Bird Song.

  A MindBlog reader has pointed out to me an interesting article by Arriaga et al. that notes that mice courtship ultrasonic sound has some anatomical features an... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Brain Correlates of Switching Consciousness on and off Again

  

  Kock points in Scientific American Mind to work byLångsjö et al. (open access), who image the neural core of consciousness. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A New Study on Implicit Attitudes and Voting..

  Following my post on implicit attitudes and voting I have received an email from a group of collaborators doing further studies on the same issue. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Gender Bias is Alive and Well in Academic Science.

  Handelsman and collaborators do a rather clear study on how the academy works, showing that science faculties favor male students: Despite efforts to recruit an... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Resilience to Stress Replacing Happiness as Fashionable Research Topic

  Nature has published a special supplement on Stress and Relilience, a topic also of major emphasis in Richard Davidson's new book. Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mechanism of Unconscious Internal Bias in Our Choices

  

  What's actually happening when we make choices that do not seem to be justifiable on purely economic or logical grounds? Wimmer and Shohamy do some interesting... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Learning New Information During Sleep.

  Arzi et al. do an ingenious experiment to show that we can do associative learning during our sleep. We can associate a sound with a pleasant or unpleasant... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Neurochemistry of Storytelling.

  Having in the previous post just made an ill-tempered dump on one kind of popularization, I decide to be inconsistent and now pass on this nice piece with a... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2012 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE