Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2661 )

• Krugman on Piketty's New Book on Inequality - "Capital and Ideology'

  Krugman's review is worth reading in it entirely, and I pass on a few clips that encapsulate his summary and option of Piketty's core points. Piketty: ... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• MindBlog Passes on a Note: on the Relief of Not Being Yourself.

  I am going to start occasionally doing MindBlog posts on ideas that I think might have the potential of developing into longer pieces of work, but that usually... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Cannabis Increases Susceptibility to False Memory.

  From Kloft et al.: Significance This unique randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial examined the susceptibility to false memories under the... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Sam Harris' "Waking Up" Wakes up Deric's MindBlog

  Over the past few months I have gone back to school by doing the entire sequence of lectures and exercises presented by two mindfulness meditation apps. Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Using Your Brain's Functional Connectivity to Track Psychiatric Symptoms and...

  Sylvester et al. propose examining the functional connectivity of the amygdala as a substrate for precision psychiatry. Their work provides a detailed... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Why Do Teenagers Frequently Behave So Unpredictably and i...

  Why do teenagers frequently behave so unpredictably and impulsively? Perhaps because their brains are undergoing disruptive changes in connectivity between... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Speech Versus Music in the Brain

  Peter Stern summarizes work of Albouy et al. in the current issue of Science Magazine: To what extent does the perception of speech and music depend on differen... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Optimism and Longevity.

  I want to point to recent articles relevant to an issue most of us mull about: "Is my glass half empty or half full?" Jane Brody describes a number of studies... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Magic Mushroom Nose Spray for Psychedelic Microdosing?

  

  Rich Haridy does an interesting article in New Atlas. A few clips: Alongside the rapidly progressing psychedelic science movement, with researchers rigorously... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Role of Memory Suppression in Resilience After Trauma.

  Mary et al. report the neural differences that control the retrieval of traumatic memories in 102 individuals who were affected by the Paris terror attacks but... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Imposter Syndrome Threatens Diversity

  I have experienced the 'Imposter Syndrome' since childhood, which motivates me to pass on this open source letter to Science Magazine in its entirety (click... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Winner of Dance Your PhD 2019 Contest - Social Experiences in Larval Zebrafish...

  

  The videos of several of the contestants can be see at this link, where you will also find a description of the work and people behind the winner, a very... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• MindBlog is Starting Its 15th Year...

  I’ve just realized that MindBlog, whose first post was on February 8, 2006, has just entered its 15th year. That first post, “Dangerous Ideas” looks like it... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Mindfulness as an Antidote to the Intrusions of Artificial Intelligence?

  I want to point to a very interesting New Yorker Magazine article by Ian Parker describing the life and ideas of Yuval Harari, whose work has been the subject o... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Amazing Technology - a Total Body PET Scanner with 100ms Resolution.

  

  From Zhang et al. at UC Davis (check out the video, showing injection of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose into a vein in the right leg): A 194-cm-long total-body... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Economic Inequality Increases Desire for a Strong Leader.

  From Sprong et al., studies very relevant to the current political climate in the U.S., and worldwide: Societal inequality has been found to harm the mental... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Resilient Misinformation in a Crisis

  From Carey et al.: Disease epidemics and outbreaks often generate conspiracy theories and misperceptions that mislead people about the risks they face and how... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Much Are We Misled by Inauthentic Internet Content? Perhaps Not Much...

  Bail et al. analyze data describing attitudes and online behaviors of Republican and Democratic Twitter users from late 2017 and find no evidence that... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Universality and Diversity in Human Song

  In the same vein as the previous post on cultural variation and universal structures in music, another massive research collective reports on their study of... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What Music Makes Us Feel - 13 Cross Cultural Categories

  From Cowen et al.: (Be sure to check out their striking visualization of the data. By moving the cursor about the screen you can listen to the different... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2020 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE