The Art of Deception: When Kindness is a Lure to Betrayal
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...
Tag: Behavior
Fortune Favors the Bold and Anxious — in baboon learning in this one study, at least.
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 ...
Genes Aren’t Just Architects; They’re Actors
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...
The Social Life of Genes
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...
Your Habits Give You Away — As Companies Damn Well Know
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...
Is Sensitivity a Curse or a Blessing? My Latest on The Orchid-Dandelion Hypothesis
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-...
The Tight Collar: The New Science of Choking Under Pressure
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...
Depression’s wiring diagram
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...
Kill Whitey. It’s the Right Thing to Do.
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...
For Great Apes, Addressing Inequality is Child’s Play
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 ...