Social Psych’s Replication Problem Just Got Thornier
Much ado lately about the challenges of replicating key findings in social psychology. Almost everyone agrees it’s a good idea to test these key findings ...
Tag: Brains and Behavior
Baby Blues, Sugar Grumps, Cannibal Writers, & Other Reading
T. Delene Beeland’s essay on post-baby depression is among of the best such I’ve read. I judged myself against other mothers. It seemed everyone cared fo...
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Psych Symptoms Less Biology “Than a Kind of Language”
Is mental illness a product of biology or culture? Ethan Watters, over at Pacific Standard, argues that whatever the biology involved in mental illness, ...
Whence Comes Anxiety? Scott Stossel Explains
Scott Stossel’s fine vivid account of his spectacular struggles with anxiety — an Atlantic article excerpted from his new book —carries, among other pleas...
Can A Flashy Thing Cure OCD? Sorta, In Mice.
All mice groom themselves to keep their fur clean, but some in a lab in Columbia University, New York, have started grooming to an unusual and excessive degree....
Orchids & Dandelions Abloom (Repost)
Can Genes Send You High or Low? The Orchid Hypothesis A-bloom by David Dobbs Originally posted March 2012* A few years ago, Arial Knafo, a psychologist a...
The PTSD Trap (NC Moving Party Track 4)
Below find #4 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, posted as I moved the blog her...
Kill Whitey, It’s the Right Thing to Do (NC Moving Party Track 2)
This is #2 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, as I move the blog here. In this ...
The Depression Map: Genes, Culture, Environment, and a Side of Pathogens
This post, originally published 14 September, 2010, examines how genes and culture can apparently shape one another’s development and expression — a topi...
How A Four-Year-Old Kicked My Butt at Blickets
In the clip above, filmed in the lab of University of California, Berkeley, cognitive psychologist Alison Gopnik, a particularly charming 4-year-old girl named ...