Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2628 )

• A Third Visual Pathway Specialized for Social Perception.

  

  Fourty years after Ungerleider and Mishkin proposed our current model of the primate cortex as using two major visual pathway along its ventral and dorsal... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Endorsement of Dominant Masculinity Best Predicts 2016 and 2020 Voting and...

  Vescio and Schermerhorn carry out studies of several thousand individuals showing that men’s and women’s endorsement of hegemonic masculinity predicted support... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Oxytocin Enhances Male Sexual Activity

  

  An article by Oti et al. in Current Biology makes me want to buy an oxytocin inhaler (just google oxytocin nasal spray). I'll pass on the highlights and a... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Technology Destroys Bonding Cultural Narratives

  I am on the mailing list of Mark Manson's weekly newsletter, find myself repeatedly annoyed by its arrogant tone and obscene prose, but then appreciate some... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Mice Feel Each Other's Pain Or Fear

  

  The abstract from Smith et al, who show the brain basis of empathetic behaviors in mice that mirror those in humans: Empathy is an essential component of... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Cults, Cabals, White Power, and Trumpism

  The men of "all men are created equal" in the U.S. Declaration of Independence - white male property owners - have remained the American ruling class for more... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Environmental Noise Degrades Learning and Memory

  Sobering observations from Zhang et al on our hippocampus-related learning and memory:Significance The noise pollution accompanying industrialization is a risk... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Reality-challenged America of Echo Chambers and Cults

  Following the recent drama of a mob motivated by a fraudulent theory briefly taking over America's capitol building I want to pass on a number of interesting... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Are We the Cows of the Future?

  One of the questions posed by Yuval Harari in his writing on our possible futures is "What are we to do with all these humans who are, except for a small... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Cuttlefish Can Pass the Marshmellow Test.

  Cephalopod mullusks like octopuses or cuttlefishes show remarkable intelligence. My most engaged and soothing viewing experience during the pandemis has been... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Brains of Friends Have Similar Brain Functional Connectivities.

  From Hyhon et al.: Significance In what ways are we similar to our friends? Here, we characterized the social network of residents of a remote village, a... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Changing Geography of Social Mobility in the United States

  From Connor and Storper: New evidence shows that intergenerational social mobility—the rate at which children born into poverty climb the income ladder—varies... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Commentaries on Our Times

  I have accumulated a number of articles on our current political and social issues that I think offer interesting perspectives. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Matriliny Reverses Gender Disparities in Inflammation and Hypertension.

  Fascinating obeervations from Reynolds et al.: Significance Greater autonomy afforded to women in matrilineal societies has been hypothesized to benefit... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Generic "you" Enhances Connection Between People and Ideas

  An interesting piece from Orvell et al.: Creating resonance between people and ideas is a central goal of communication. Historically, attempts to understand th... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Sixteen Facial Expressions Occur in Similar Contexts Worldwide .

  I want to pass on this article by Cowen et al., which was the subject of a comment made on my December 2 post "Emotions are constructed, and are not universal. Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Hallucinogens at a Prehistoric Rock Art Site.

  Interesting work from Robinson et al. on stoned stone-age artists! Significance Proponents of the altered states of consciousness (ASC) model have argued that... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Musical Offering for This Day.

  

  I'm grateful to a number of MindBlog viewers for their positive feedback on the recent series of posts on Barrett's book on emotions, and I thought I would... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Plasticity of Well-being and the Cultivation of Human Flourishing

  I pass on the abstract of an open source article in PNAS contributed by my former colleague Richard Davidson and his colleages at the University of Wisconsin... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Barrett's Grand Finale... From Brain to Mind: The New Frontier

  Following our last installment on the emotions of animals, this post arrives at Barrett's final take home messages in Chapter 13 of "How Emotions are Made: The... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE