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Hearts & Minds | The Boston GlobeSince Plato, scholars have drawn a clear distinction between thinking and feeling. Now science suggests that our emotions are what make thought possible. Just over 50 years ago, a group of brash young scholars at an MIT symposium introduced a series of ideas that would forever alter the way we ...
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Steven Pinker - Articles | Department of Psychology Harvard UniversityLinks to selected Articles in Academic Journals and Books
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Computing The CostTEXT SIZE The Sun Interview Computing The Cost Nicholas Carr On How The Internet Is Rewiring Our Brains by Arnie Cooper This page contains a photograph which requires the Flash plug-in to be viewed. You can download it for free, here ARNIE COOPER is a freelancer based in Santa ...
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Rapid Thinking Makes People Happy: Scientific AmericanLousy day? Don’t try to think happy thoughts—just think fast. A new study shows that accelerated thinking can improve your mood. In six experiments, researchers at Princeton and Harvard universities made research participants think quickly by having them generate as many problem-solving ideas ...
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Book TV - In Depth: Steven PinkerCognitive scientist Steven Pinker will be our guest on In Depth on Sunday, November 2nd (LIVE Noon-3pm ET; re-airs at midnight). Steven Pinker currently teaches at Harvard University where he holds the positions of Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department ...
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Seven Words You Can't Say on TV: Is Swearing the Oldest Form of Language?"I told him to be fruitful and multiply, but not in those words."Woody AllenIs the gap between objective and inner reality the reason we have difficulty understanding large numbers, the way statistics works, scientific theories like quantum physics or how to navigate the complexities of modern ...
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Should Racially Fair Juries Be Picked by Mind-Reading? | Wired Science from Wired.comRather than asking prospective jurors if they are racist, the legal system could use established behavioral tests to determine racial bias -- and these tests, though imperfect, would almost certainly be more accurate.So why not do this? Because people shouldn't be held responsible for their ...
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Would You Change Your Mental Identity? Brain Enhancement ArchivesWhen drugs, gene therapies, and cell therapies become available that will allow you to change your personality will you opt to do so? Most people in a recent study indicated they don't want to change cognitive traits that they think are fundamental to their identity. So which traits do you think ...
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Superstitions evolved to help us survive - being-human - 10 September 2008 - New ScientistDarwin never warned against crossing black cats, walking under ladders or stepping on cracks in the pavement, but his theory of natural selection explains why people believe in such nonsense.The tendency to falsely link cause to effect – a superstition – is occasionally beneficial, says Kevin ...
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EDGE 3rd Culture: Marc Hauser: Animal MindsHarvard evolutionary psychologist, Marc D. Hauser, argues that to understand what animals think and what they feel, we must ask about the kinds of selection pressures which shaped their minds and see the creature for what it is, no more, no less. Using the tools of evolutionary biology, ...
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