Deric Bownds

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• A Few Anti-technology Screeds:

  

  German artist, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl writes an impassioned diatribe titled "Technology Has Destroyed Reality": In this new age of artificial... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Successes of Advantaged Group Members Get More Attention.

  Kteily et al. show how political ideology shapes the amplification of the accomplishments of disadvantaged vs. advantaged group members: Significance... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Decay of Cognitive Diversity - Global WEIRDing is Upon Us

  I recommend that you read this brief piece by Kensy Cooperrider, a cognitive scientist in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Facial Masculinity Does Not Indicate Immunocompetence

  From Zeidi et al.: Significance Facial masculinity has been considered a sexual ornament in humans, akin to peacock trains and stag antlers. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Oligarchia - the Rise of Autonomous Analog Computing

  I want to pass on the final paragraphs of a piece done by George Dyson for Edge.org: We assume that a search engine company builds a model of human knowledge an... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Feedspot: MindBlog in Top 100 Psychology Blogs

  I am clueless about monitoring traffic on MindBlog, have been puzzled why I get 3-5 emails a week wanting to contribute content, share content, sell me some... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Fake News: The Misinformation Machine.

  I want to pass on the abstract of a Science article by Grinberg et al. and parts of a commentary on it, work on what misinformation is and how it operates that... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Default Mode Network as Seat of Our Ego - The Entropic Brain Hypothesis

  

  I want to recommend Chapter 5 of Michael Pollan's recent book "How to change your mind," on the neuroscience of the psychedelic experience, as an excellent... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Homo Prospectus - the Brain as a Time Traveler - Augmentation by A.I.?

  Steve Johnson does an engaging article on the discovery and significance of the default mode network of our brains, which has been the subject of numerous... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Emotional Dimension of Pain.

  Corder et al. examine the unpleasant percept that dominates the affective dimension of pain, which is coupled with but distinct from the motivational drive to... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Social Networks Explain Academic Success and Failure.

  Interesting work from Stadtfeld et al.: Significance Understanding the factors that explain academic failure and success of university students is a core... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Exercise Protects Memory.

  Gretchen Reynolds points to an interesting study on a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease by Lourenco et al. showing that exercise causes an increase in the... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Can Psychological Scientists Make the World a Better Place?

  I want to point to the January 2019 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science that addresses the question asked in the title of this post. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Passing of Governance to Corporate Oligarchies Serving the Top 10%?

  Three recent articles suggest to me a direction for our future. Bret Stephens' article describes the U.S. and Great Britain as rudderless and scarcely able to... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Bacteria in Your Gut Reveal Your True Age.

  Galkin et al. find that the composition of our gut microbiota can approximately reveal our age. Some microbes become more abundant with aging while others... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Upstairs/ Downstairs in Our Brain - Who (or What) is Running Our Show?

  I want to pass on to MindBlog readers the lecture notes and slides from a talk I gave yesterday to "NOVA" - one of five senior learning programs hosted by the... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Why 2018 Was the Best Year in Human History.

  Nicholas Kristof provides an antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding national and international politics in his Op-Ed piece, which is essentially an update o... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Different Meditation Practices Differently Buffer from Stress.

  A group at the University of Wisconsin lead by my colleague Richard Davidson looks a the effects of different styles of brief contemplative practices:... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Does Meditation Provide the Only Way to Survive Our Brain-dissolving...

  Both the last chapter of Harari's "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" (abstracted in MindBlog here) and a recent Op-Ed piece by NYTimes tech columnist Farhad... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Illusion of Multitasking Improves Performance.

  From Srna et al.: With technological advancements, the desire, ability, and often necessity to multitask are pervasive. Although multitasking refers to the... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE