Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2661 )

• Can We Reverse Our Biological Age? The Usual Media Hysteria...

  I must have see at least 10 of my media inputs hyping a small study by Fahy et al. (9 white men, and lacking controls) pointed to by Abbott suggesting that the... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Training to Reduce Cognitive Biases.

  Sellier et al. show that students assigned to solve a business case exercise are less likely to choose an inferior confirmatory solution when they have... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Personal and Professional Conduct Relate to One Another.

  From Griffin et al.: Significance The relative importance of personal traits compared with context for predicting behavior is a long-standing issue in... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Training Wisdom - the Illeist (third Person) Method.

  I think my most sane moments are those when I experience myself as watching, in third-person mode, rather than “being” Deric, the immersed actor. Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Infants Expect Leaders to Right Wrongs

  From Stavans and Baillargeon: Anthropological and psychological research on direct third-party punishment suggests that adults expect the leaders of social... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Loss of Control in Aging Cells.

  Wow...experiments like those of Pereda et al. make me feel rather fatalistic and resigned to the aging process, notwithstanding all numerous pie in the sky... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Interindividual Variability - Rather Than Universality - in Facial-emotion...

  Brooks et al. do experiments suggesting that the representational structure of emotion expressions in visual face-processing regions may be shaped by... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• From "Love Your Enemies" - Arthur Brooks on Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory

  

  I have read through Arthur Brooks' new book, "Love your Enemies," which addresses the many facets of our current political polarization, with the goal of... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What We See is Biased by Ongoing Neural Activity.

  

  Rassi et al. (open source) show that ongoing neural activity in our brain, as in the fusiform face area, can influence what we perceive in an ambiguous sensory... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• More Diversity in Flow-land.

  

  I will pass on part of an email from Mr. Todd Denen occasioned by my 8/16/19 post, in which he assures me, that unlike the Flow Genome Project and Flow... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What We See is Influenced by What We Can Do About It

  Djebbara et al. do experiments that resolve an ancient debate on the relationship between cognition, movement, and environment, showing that potential actions... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Schism in Flow-land? Flow Genome Project Vs. Flow Research Collective

  In Nov. 2017 I did a scathing review of the "Stealing Fire" book by Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler - in support of expensive workshops offered by their "Flow... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Weight Training Changes the Brain.

  Gretchen Reynolds points to work by Kelty et al. showing that weight training in rats can ameliorate mild cognitive impairment in rats induced by a injecting a... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Five Myths About Consciousness

  In a perspective piece for the Washington Post Christof Koch (chief scientist and president of the Allen Institute of Brain Science) does a brief and concise... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• It’s Not Just How the Game is Played, It’s Whether You Win Or Lose

  An open source article from Molina et al.: Growing disparities of income and wealth have prompted extensive survey research to measure the effects on public... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Ingroup Vigilance in Collectivistic Cultures

  Fascinating work from Liu et al., who provide a more nuanced view of how people in more collectivist cultures are more suspicious of possible unethical... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Feeling Pleasure from Music - Brain Correlates of Why People Differ

  From Martínez-Molina et al.: SIGNIFICANCE Music is one of the most important sources of pleasure for many people, but at the same time there are important... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Can an Uprising of Decency Win the Next Presidential Election?

  

  I want to point to this massively cogent piece by David Brooks, and also pass on a video done by the democratic presidential candidate he mentions, Marianne... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What Can We Do When Facts Don't Matter?

  Some of Trump’s most ardent supporters are those whose lives are most diminished and compromised by his actions. They do not let facts cloud their beliefs. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Politics Are in Our DNA - Why Societies Evolved to Have Both Conservatives and...

  Sebastian Junger points out an evolutionary rationale for the presence of both liberals and conservatives within a group - that over our evolutionary history... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE