Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2661 )

• A Brief History of Risk

  Li, Hills, and Hertwig do an open access review with the title of this post. From their introductory paragraph: ...First, we examined how the frequency of the... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Getting the Rhythm to Suppress Alzheimer's

  An interesting brief open source review by Lynne Peeples in PNAS describes experiments on mice and humans showing that visual and sound stimulation in the e.e. Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Rice-farming Predicts Tigher Social Norms, Less Innovative Thinking, Worldwide

  From Talhelm and English (open source): Data recently published in PNAS mapped out regional differences in the tightness of social norms across China [R. Y. J.... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Stable Isotopes in Hair Reveal Dietary Divergence Related to Socioeconomic Statu...

  From Ehleringer et al.: Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in hair sampled from 65 communities across the central and intermountain regions of the United... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Gaze Deflection Reveals How Gaze Cueing is Tuned to Extract the Mind Behind the...

  Here is a fascinating bit from Colombatto et al.: Significance We report an empirical study of gaze deflection—a common experience in which you turn to look in ... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Effects of Lockdown on Human Sleep and Chronotype During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  An open source article in Current Biology from Leone et al., the summary: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many countries imposing a lockdown, which in turn... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Model Shows Herd Immunity to COVID Can Be Achieved at a Population-wide...

  I pass on the editor's summary and the abstract for a open source article by Britton et al.: Heterogeneity and herd immunity In response to severe acute... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Philanthropy—or Tax-exempt Lobbying?

  I pass on this piece by Brad Wible from the Editors' Choice section of the current issue of Science Magazine: Major corporations appear to fund their... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Our Default-mode Network Contains Nine Subnetworks Serving Different Cognitive...

  Our brains are organized into large networks that can be identified during brain scanning. The default mode network, which has been the subject of many... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Neurobiology of Social Distance

  Bzdok and Dunbar (open source) do a definitive review of evidence that psychosocial embedding in interpersonal relationship is crucial for survival. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Placebos Without Deception Reduce Self-report and Neural Measures of Emotional...

  Interesting work from Guevarra et al. (open source): Several recent studies suggest that placebos administered without deception (i.e. Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Personality Dimensions Are Predicted by Cell Phone Usage Data

  From Stachi et al.: Significance Smartphones are sensor-rich computers that can easily be used to collect extensive records of behaviors, posing serious... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Conversational Primes Influence Choices - a Magic Trick Example

  

  From Pailhès and Kuhn: Abstract Past research demonstrates that unconscious primes can affect people’s decisions. However, these free choice priming paradigms... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Paradoxical Role of Social Capital in the Coronavirus Pandemic

  I suggest you read an insightful article by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker with the title of this post. He begins with an interesting comparison of the King Jame... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Working Memory Capacity Predicts Individual Differences in Social-distancing...

  Xie et al. suggest that non-compliance is associated with limitations in people's mental capacity to simultaneously retain multiple pieces of information in... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Coming De Facto World Government?

  David J. Lynch does a fascinating description, which I strongly suggest that you read, of How a little-known company kept Apple products on the market — and... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Cats Associated with Early Human Farming Long Before Their Domestication

  As the herd of Abyssinian cats in my has grown, now numbering two 12 year olds and two kittens, I've become more curious about the origins of this breed and of... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Conserved Aspects of Sex-biased Brain Development in Humans and Mice

  It is a pity that in our current political environment any scientist adding to the abundant evidence of brain differences between the sexes runs the risk of... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Robust Evidence for Bisexual Orientation Among Men

  It is interesting that debate over whether genuinely bisexual men actually exist has continued for so long. In the current issue of PNAS Jabbour et al. Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Inflammaging and COVID-19

  I pass on the first paragraph from a Science Perspectives article by Akbar and Gilroy, and suggest that you have a look at the whole article. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE