Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2661 )

• You're Less Likely to Check Facts in a Social Media Crowd Than When Alone.

  Jun et al. (open source) make a stab at characterizing the societal problem of "fake" news: Significance The dissemination of unverified content (e.g. Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Cracking the Brain's Code for Facial Identity.

  Chang and Tsao appear to have figured out how facial identity is represented in the brain: Highlights •Facial images can be linearly reconstructed using... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Trust and the Poverty Trap.

  from Jachimowicz et al: Significance More than 1.5 billion people worldwide live in poverty. Even in the United States, 14% live below the poverty line. Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Heart Trumps the Head : Desirability Bias in Political Belief Revision.

  From Tappin et al. Understanding how individuals revise their political beliefs has important implications for society. In a pre-registered study (N=900) we... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Opioids Regulate Oxytocin Enhancement of Social Attention.

  From Monte et al. work suggesting that the effectiveness of oxytocin in treating social dysfunction might be enhanced by the simultaneous administration of... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Visual Category Selectivity is Innate.

  Interesting work from Hurk et al., who find that the brains of people blind since birth show category specific activity patterns for faces, scenes, body parts,... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Preferences for Group Dominance Underlie Social Inequality and Violence Across...

  Work of Kunst et al. provided in open source text whose findings suggest that societal inequality is reflected in people’s minds as dominance motives that... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Wisdom of Crowds for Visual Search.

  Juni and Eckstein show that perceptual decisions about large image data sets (as from medical and geospatial imaging) that are made by a group are more likely t... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Listener Evaluations of New and Old Italian Violins

  From Fritz et al.: Old Italian violins are routinely credited with playing qualities supposedly unobtainable in new instruments. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Detecting Both Facial and Olfactory Cues of Sickness in Others

  From Regenbogen et al.: Significance In the perpetual race between evolving organisms and pathogens, the human immune system has evolved to reduce the harm of... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Optimal Incentives for Collective Intelligence

  Mann and Helbing devise a game-theoretic model of collective prediction showing that an antidote to groupthink and conformity is to reward those who have shown... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Solitary Discourse Yields Deeper Understanding Than Solitary Description.

  Zavals and Kuhn show that imagining a discourse between advocates of two political candidates yields a richer representation than solitary evaluation of the... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Poor Human Olfaction is a 19th-century Myth

  A review from McGann noting work that shows no anatomical basis for supposing human olfaction to be inferior to animals, although variation in the olfactory... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Moralistic Bias in Our Default Representation of What is Possible.

  From Phillips and Cushman: Significance As humans, we think not only about what is, but also what could be. These representations of alternative possibilities... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Osteoarthritis Attenuated by Removing Senescent Cells.

  Jeon et al. use a model of anterior cruciate ligament surgery to show that senescent cells assemble in the traumatized knee joint and trigger development of... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Science of Consciousness

  In 1994 I went to the first of what has become an annual gathering, sponsored by the Center for Consciousness Studies of the University of Arizona, of... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Our Brains Have an Innate Knowledge of Tools.

  From Striem-Amit et al.: Significance To what extent is brain organization driven by innate genetic constraints, and how dependent is it on individual experienc... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Invisibility Cloak Illusion - You're Too Focused on What You're Focused On.

  Boothy does a summary of her work with Clark and Bargh. Some slightly edited clips: That coffee stain on your shirt, those mismatched earrings you... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Increasing Honesty in Humans with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation

  Maréchal et al. show that a bit of electricity applied to your right prefrontal cortex makes you half as likely to be dishonest. Hmmm..... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Fading American Dream in a Nutshell...

  From Chetty et al.: We estimated rates of “absolute income mobility”—the fraction of children who earn more than their parents—by combining data from U.S. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2017 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE