Deric Bownds

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2628 )

• Are Electric Vehicles Really Better for the Planet?

  Some time ago I read a careful analysis of the energy required to manufacture a Toyota Prius, which reported that more energy was expended over the life cycle o... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Model for Aggression and Violence Around the World.

  I want to pass on the abstract of a forthcoming article in Brain and Behavioral Science for which reviewer's comments are being solicited. (I'm on the mailing... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Dalai Lama’s Atlas of Emotions

  

  You might have a look at this curious website pointed to by Kevin Randall, an atlas of emotions developed by Paul Ekman and collaborators commissioned by the... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• When Philosophy Lost Its Way.

  Frodeman and Briggle offer a lament over the irreversible passing of the practice of philosophy as a moral endeavor, one that might offer a view of the good... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Brain Modules That Process Human Consensus Decision-making

  Suzuki et al. offer a study noting brain areas important in consensus decision-making, with different decision variables being associated with activity in... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Aerobic Fitness: One Minute of All out Effort = 45 Min. of Moderate Effort

  Reynolds has written a series of articles describing experiments showing the benefits of high-intensity interval training. She now points to a study by Gillen e... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• America in Decline?

  I pass on a few clips from Easterbrook's article, on the prevailing negative depiction (especially by Republican candidates) of America's current state and... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Downsides of Diversity.

  I want to thank the anonymous commentator on the " Diversity makes you brighter" post, who sent links to interesting articles by Jonas and by Dinesena and... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Two Ways to Be Satisfied.

  Anna North points to an article by Helzer and Jayawickreme that examines two different control strategies for obtaining short and long term life satisfaction,... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Diversity Makes You Brighter.

  Providing some data relevant to debates over affirmative action, Levine et al. show that ethnic diversity can increase intelligent behaviors. Misfits between... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Key to Political Persuasion

  I pass on clips from this interesting piece, that has been languishing in my queue of potential posts for some time, in which Willer and Feinberg give a more... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Our Perception of Our Body Shape is Very Malleable - Making Your Finger Feel...

  

  Here is a neat trick. It works! (I tried it). Ekroll et al. show that illusory visual completion of an object's invisible backside can make you finger feel... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• What Happens If We All Live to 100?

  I want to mention an interesting article by Easterbrook that has been languishing in my queue of potential posts for more than a year. It notes numerous... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Semantic Maps in Our Brains - and Some Interactive Graphics

  

  Huth et al. have performed functional MRI on subjects listening to hours of narrative stories to find semantic domains that seem to be consistent across... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Video Games for Neuro-Cognitive Optimization

  

  Continuing the MindBlog thread on brain games (cf. here), I pass on the introduction to a brief review by Mishra, Anguera, and Gazzaley on designing the next... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Embodied Prediction - Perception and Mind Turned Upside Down

  Andy Clark does a fascinating discussion and analysis of predictive processing, which turns the traditional picture of perception on its head. The embodied... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Privileged Fifth.

  I tweeted this well researched OpEd piece by Thomas Edsall the first time I read it, and after my third reading, want to urge you to read it. I pass on two ... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Sleep Deprivation, Brain Structure, and Learning

  Saletin et al. find that individual differences in the anatomy of the human hippocampus explain many of the differences in learning impairment after sleep... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Grandiose Narcissism and the U.S. Presidency

  Many of us are scratching our heads about what a Trump presidency might be like, particularly in regard to his outstanding personality trait: grandiose... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Essential Role of Default Mode Network in Higher Cognitive Processing.

  

  The respective roles of attentional and default mode networks in our brains has been the subject of numerous MindBlog posts (enter 'default mode' in the search... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2016 PSYCHOLOGY, SCIENCE