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The Art of Deception: When Kindness is a Lure to Betrayal

Posted on December 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Over at NPR, Barbara King has a post about the mostly amusing deceptions that chimpanzee mothers sometimes engage in. It’s a nice post that includes an am...

Brains and Behavior

Fortune Favors the Bold and Anxious — in baboon learning in this one study, at least.

Posted on March 13, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

At her Zoologic blog, over at my old haunts at Wired Science Blogs, Mary Bates looks at an absolutely fascinating study of how temperament is linked to certain ...

Biology/Brains and Behavior/Genetics

Genes Aren’t Just Architects; They’re Actors

Posted on August 27, 2013 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

I’ve a feature on “The Social Life of Genes” coming out in Pacific Standard next week Tuesday 3 Sept, which I discussed yesterday on WNYC̵...

Brains and Behavior/Genetics/Published elsewhere

The Social Life of Genes

Posted on August 26, 2013 by David Dobbs / 5 Comments

Today I was on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show talking about “The Social Life of Genes,” a feature I wrote that will appear appeared in Pacific Sta...

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Your Habits Give You Away — As Companies Damn Well Know

Posted on February 16, 2012 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

There are, however, some brief periods in a person’s life when old routines fall apart and buying habits are suddenly in flux. One of those moments — the moment...

Brains and Behavior/Uncategorized

Is Sensitivity a Curse or a Blessing? My Latest on The Orchid-Dandelion Hypothesis

Posted on February 7, 2012 by David Dobbs / 11 Comments

As faithful readers know, I’m working on a book, provisionally titled The Orchid and the Dandelion and likely to be published next year, about the orchid-...

Brains and Behavior/Uncategorized

The Tight Collar: The New Science of Choking Under Pressure

Posted on September 27, 2010 by David Dobbs / 6 Comments

The Collar Late in May 2008, perched in superb seats a few rows behind home plate at Chicago’s Cellular Field, I took in a White Sox-Indians game with Sia...

Biotech/Brains and Behavior/Medicine

Depression’s wiring diagram

Posted on September 16, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The ever-excellent Neurocritic has an interesting post looking at "lesion studies" of depression. As he notes, he was hoping for real lesions, from people who'd...

Brains and Behavior

Kill Whitey. It’s the Right Thing to Do.

Posted on September 15, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

A couple years ago, David Pizarro, a young research psychologist at Cornell, brewed up a devious variation on the classic trolley problem. The trolley problem i...

Brains and Behavior/Uncategorized

For Great Apes, Addressing Inequality is Child’s Play

Posted on July 26, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Having reciprocated the attack the young bonobo I had come to know as Aaron then calmly moved away, leaving Jumanji to rub his shoulder and stare at the ground ...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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