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Is Moral Psychology About Morals Or Their Function?
Quandaries such as those involving stealing a drug to save a spouse’s life or whether or not to have an abortion have historically dominated the study of the development of moral thinking...
The Thoughtful Animal
Exploring the evolution and architecture of the mind
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Editor’s Selections: Follow the leader, Psychological Relativity, Right-Brained Nonsense, and the Science of Fatherhood
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. “The relationship between leaders and followers reflects a social contract wherein followers trust leaders to make decisions that benefit the group and leaders agree to pursue actions that are in the group’s best interests...
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Culinary Masochism: The Pain of Peppers
My contribution for the Guardian’s Science Blogging Festival has been posted! Healthy, sane humans do not stab themselves in the thighs, or bathe their eyes in lemon juice.
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Shelter Dogs: Taking the Dog’s-Eye View
At least one dog can be found in forty percent of US households, and forty percent of those owners allow their dogs to sleep on their beds.
Mind
Extra, Extra
There was A LOT of stuff this week. Was this week particularly good for blogging or am I just aware of more blogs and blog posts in recent weeks?
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Origins of Mind 101
If I had to describe the mission, the point, the raison d’etre of the entire field of psychology in just one sentence, I would say: Psychology aims to determine the relative extents to which biology and experience determine cognition and behavior.” And, as you might expect, there are widely differing schools of thought...
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Perception and Reality (and a few TEDx teaching tips)
This talk, from last spring’s TEDxUSC (for those not in the know, USC held the first ever TEDx event, in 2009), is made of awesome, and worth watching in its entirety.
Mind
Editor’s Selections: Katrina, Music, Crickets, and Artificial Movement
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: “Now, five years later, there’s new evidence of the significant, negative impact of Hurricane Katrina on children’s mental health.” Many Children Still Haven’t Recovered from Katrina...
Mind
Monday Midnight Movie – Baby Pandas!
New-born twin giant pandas made their media debut at a zoo in Japan on Friday. The twins, one male and one female, were born on August 11 to mother Rauhin and father Eimei, by artificial insemination...
Mind
Monday Pets on Scientific American!
For today’s dose of monday pet blogging, head on over to a piece that I wrote for Scientific American that went up today. I used the invitation as an opportunity to a dig a little deeper into the story of Belyaev and his domesticated silver foxes (I previously wrote about them, here and here)...
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