Deric Bownds

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• Real World Demonstration of How Tribes Determine Opinions.

  From Satherley et al.: Real-world tests of the impact of partisan cues on voters are scarce because they require assessing how citizens’ attitudes changed towar... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• People Use Less Information Than They Think to Make up Their Minds

  Klein and O'Brien (open access, ) note another of our psychological biases or shortcomings. We perform Manichean good or bad characterizations with much less... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Stimulating Creativity with Alternating Current Transcranial Brain Stimulation

  So... the actual title of the article by Di Bernardi et al. is "Right temporal alpha oscillations as a neural mechanism for inhibiting obvious associations" -... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Return of Paganism

  Continuing in the thread of the previous post, I want to point to a piece by Ross Douthat that suggests the return (or emergence) of a new spirituality that... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Yuval Harari - "21 Lessons..." Abstracted - Part 5 - Resilience

  This is the fifth installment of clips taken from "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," Harari, Yuval Noah. Kindle Edition, Random House Publishing Group. Part V. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Yuval Harari - "21 Lessons..." Abstracted - Part 4 - Truth

  This is the fourth installment of clips taken from "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," Harari, Yuval Noah. Kindle Edition, Random House Publishing Group. Part IV. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Yuval Harari - "21 Lessons..." - Abstracted - Part 3 - Despair and Hope

  This is the third installment of clips taken from "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," Harari, Yuval Noah. Kindle Edition, Random House Publishing Group. Part III. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Yuval Harari - "21 Lessons..." - Abstracted - Part 2 - The Political Challenge

  This is my second installment of clips taken from "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," Harari, Yuval Noah. Kindle Edition, Random House Publishing Group. Part II. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2019 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Yuval Harari - "21 Lessons.." Abstracted - Part 1 - The Technological Challenge

  In this and the next four posts I'm passing on the result of something I do for myself when reading an interesting book - attempt to get the essence of the... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Reimagining the Human

  Eileen Crist does a perspective essay in Science Magazine. Some clips: Earth is in the throes of a mass extinction event and climate change upheaval, risking a... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Brain Biomarkers for Resilience - Executive Frontal Lobe Activity

  Friedman points to several articles demonstrating brain correlates of resilience to social adversity: -higher connectivity within the brain’s frontoparietal... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Blood Proteins Are Different in People Who Exercise.

  There is abundant documentation of the positive effects of exercise: lengthening life spans, reducing disease risks, improving heart health, bolstering immune... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Seasonal Offering...

  

  The cellist in a piano trio that I am playing with invited me (as a sight reading pianist who is always on the prowl for string players) to attend a gathering... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• "Meaningful Life" Science - a Tonic for Our Times?

  I am a rye crisp empathy challenged old fart, but I try sometimes to kind, generous, and nice. And, I sometimes wonder what planet the Greater Good Magazine... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Brain Correlates of Successful Cognitive Aging.

  From Wang et al. (open access to text and figures): Prevention of age-related cognitive decline is an increasingly important topic. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Corruption of Online Social Systems by Bots

  From Stella et al.: Societies are complex systems, which tend to polarize into subgroups of individuals with dramatically opposite perspectives. Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• More on Slowing Down Aging.

  Some recent articles: Gretchen Reynolds points to work showing that vigorous aerobic exercise causes an increase in the length of telomeres, pieces of DNA at th... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Can We Really Inherit Trauma?

  MindBlog has mentioned a number of studies that claim that the effects of trauma can be passed through generations. Carey does a review that notes that human... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Bad News on Human Nature - a Listicle

  I pass on clips from an Aeon piece by Jarrett that notes some of the darker and less impressive aspects of human behavior. Each of the points is accompanied by... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Septuagenarians with the Bodies of 25-year-olds

  This septuagenarian (76 year old) author of this MindBlog always enjoys coming across reports of research, such as the work of Trappe and collaborators, which i... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2018 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE