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Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentricNew research compares religious people's beliefs to their estimates of God's beliefs and the beliefs of other people. The research was led by Nicholas Epley, Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Religious people tend to use their own beliefs ...
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Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America - Politics and BusinessBright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
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BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Anticipating an interaction with an obese person provokes feelings of social powerHumans are obsessed with status. Beneath every social interaction, there's an implicit power play. This is made stark by a North American study showing that the anticipation of a conversation with an obese person provokes in normal-weight people feelings of increased power and dominance, ...
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Out of darkness, sight: How the brain learns to seeCases of restored vision after a lifetime of blindness, though exceedingly rare, provide a unique opportunity to address several fundamental questions regarding brain function. After being deprived of visual input, the brain needs to learn to make sense of the new flood of visual information. ...
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Epiphenom: How normal is WEIRD?It's a pretty shocking fact, but pretty much everything we think we know about human behaviour derives from studies of US undergraduates - the psychologists' 'lab rat'! These people are, WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) in more ways than one. A paper from three ...
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Depression's Evolutionary Roots: Scientific AmericanDepression seems to pose an evolutionary paradox. Research in the US and other countries estimates that between 30 to 50 percent of people have met current psychiatric diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder sometime in their lives. But the brain plays crucial roles in promoting ...
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Time is free… | ThotspotTime is free… THURSDAY , AUGUST 13th, 2009 “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it ...
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The Multiverse According to Ben: Will China Build AGI First?One of the reasons I spent 4 weeks in China this summer, organizing the First AGI Summer School and collaborating on research with my friend Hugo de Garis's Artificial Brain Lab at Xiamen University, was to qualitatively investigate Hugo's stories about the great potential for AGI R&D allegedly ...
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In pursuit of a happiness geneThe pursuit of happiness characterizes the human condition. But for those suffering from stress, money trouble or chronic illness, a positive outlook on life can be difficult to find. Now, a Tel Aviv University researcher says we should look to our genes.Initial research findings have made Prof. ...
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On Breeding: Eremozoic Humanity-Biological Wasteland Earth..."If any other species behaves like Man we call it a plague." "All measures to thwart the degradation and destruction of our ecosystem will be useless if we do not cut population growth. By 2050, if we continue to reproduce at the current rate, the planet will have between 8 billion and 10 ...
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