Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2628 )

• A Review on Transcutaneous Vagal Nerve Stimulation.

  Colzato and Beste review the literature on cognitive effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS), with a focus on studies on normal subjects... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Effects of Social Media on Well-being.

  Allcott et al. do a fascinating study examining the effects of getting a random sample of Facebook users to deactivate their accounts for 4 weeks in exchange fo... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Differential Fertility Makes Society More Conservative on Family Values

  From Vogl and Freese: Significance “Family values” conservatives in the United States have more children and more siblings than their compatriots. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Older Adults Proactively Downregulate Anticipated Negative Affect.

  Interesting work from Corbett et al. (open source): Previous studies have only investigated age-related differences in emotional processing and encoding in... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Looking at Pictures Makes Your Brain’s Visual Cortex Swell!

  Wow, talk about dynamic neuroplasticity...Mansson et al (open source) take observations of how rapidly our brains can change to a whole new level. Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Progress Toward Gender Equality in the United States Has Slowed Or Stalled

  From England et al.: Significance Social scientists have documented dramatic change in gender inequality in the last half century, sometimes called a “gender... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Gender Differences in the Brain Connections That Predict Intelligence.

  From Jiang et al: Scores on intelligence tests are strongly predictive of various important life outcomes. However, the gender discrepancy on intelligence... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Arthur Brooks Launches a Happiness Column.

  It seems a bit strange to launch a column on happiness during a pandemic, but the social isolation that has been forced on us provides us with more time to... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Two Sources on the State of America

  Like many MindBlog readers, I am reading countless articles on the current pandemic and its medical, economic, and social consequences. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Psychedelic Psychiatry's Brave New World, and a New Rapid-acting Antidepressannt

  I want to point to this open source article in Cell magazine, that provides an up to date review of resurrection of research into possible clinical uses of... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Stress Can Be Enhancing.

  Beibowitz and Crum do an Op-Ed piece that is worth a read, noting: Over a decade of research — ours and that of others — suggests that it’s not the type or... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Self Help During the COVID-19 Crisis.

  

  MindBlog is getting bombarded by emails from websites and organizations wanting to advertise their advice on how to cope with our current crisis. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Perils of Nighttime Dining

  Kelly et al. show that lipids in late evening snacks are less likely to be oxidized and most likely to be stored as fats than lipids in morning meals. Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Lockdown Turns out to NOT Be an Introvert's Paradise.

  Contra my March 28 post on our current lock down being springtime for introverts, here are some slips from a salient article by Abby Ohlheiser that resonates... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Rejuvenating Aging Human Cells.

  Nicholas Wade points to important work by Stanford researchers showing they can rejuvenate human cells by reprogramming them back to a youthful state. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Brain Regions That Predict Money Choices Also Predict Allocation of Time to...

  People currently spend over 1 billion hours every day in attention markets watching video content, and the world’s second-most popular search engine is the vide... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Prosocial Behavior Can Increase Happiness in the Short Term but Decrease It in...

  From Falk and Graeber: Significance Governments around the world increasingly acknowledge the role of happiness as a societal objective and implement policies... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Google Knows More About Me Than I Do. Further Comment on Harari Article.

  Again I have the eerie feeling that one of the phrases that sticks in my mind from reading Yuval Harari’s books, namely that “Goggle knows more about you than... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Vulnerable Robots Induce Prosocial Behavior in Groups of Humans.

  Interesting work from Traeger et al.: Significance Prior work has demonstrated that a robot’s social behavior has the ability to shape people’s trust toward,... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Springtime for Introverts...

  Thank goodness some sparks of humor are available to lighten the somber clouds of the COVID-19 pandemic. You should check out Atlantic staff writer Andrew... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE