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Nieman Watchdog > Commentary > Torture's attraction is not information -- it's retributionTorture's attraction is not information -- it's retribution COMMENTARY | November 06, 2008 It's not a good way to get information, so why did Bush administration officials endorse torture? A social psychologist's experiment offers evidence that those who endorse torture do so out of a desire ...Marcia Pawlowski added 13 months ago
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Physicist Offers Solution To Market MeltdownThe paralyzing fear that is driving volatile global markets to precarious lows can be effectively neutralized and stability can be restored to the U.S. and world economies through implementation of scientifically proven “technologies of consciousness,” which address the crisis at its source and ...
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Memories Are Made of ThisNew memory study records the activation of human brain cells deep inside the living brain.The mystery of what happens in our brains when we remember something is fascinating not only from a scientific perspective but also because the experience of recall can be so, well, memorable. Thinking ...
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The Attitude-Behaviour Gap: Why We Say One Thing But Do The OppositeMind-myth 4: It's only natural to think a person's attitudes and behaviours are directly related. If someone says, while truly believing it, that they're not a racist, you'd expect them to behave consistently with that statement. Despite this, psychologists have found that the link between a ...
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PsyBlog: Memories Are Made of ThisNew memory study records the activation of human brain cells deep inside the living brain. The mystery of what happens in our brains when we remember something is fascinating not only from a scientific perspective but also because the experience of recall can be so, well, memorable. Thinking ...
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BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Judging others by our own capabilitiesPsychologists in America have documented an unusual form of egocentrism that affects us all. University students who were asked to judge how high an unencumbered women would be able to jump, made lower estimates when they had weights attached to their own ankles, compared with when they ...
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Kids with older dads at higher bipolar risk: study | U.S. | ReutersChildren born to fathers older than 30 are more likely to develop bipolar disorder, a common condition sometimes known as manic depression, researchers reported on Monday.The paternal risk also grows with the age of a father, rising to 37 percent by the time a man is 55 years, said Emma Frans, ...
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Genes may make some people more prone to anxietyPhysOrg.com: Inborn differences may help explain why trauma gives some people bad memories and others the nightmare of post-traumatic stress. Scientists in Germany and the United States have reported evidence linking genes to anxious behavior. The findings appear in the August issue of ...
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Who Framed George Lakoff? - ChronicleReview.comGeorge P. Lakoff is falling asleep. It is a bright summer afternoon in San Francisco, and Lakoff is nursing a latte at a small table near the entrance of a bustling, sun-dappled cafe. "This is what happens when you are 67," he explains sheepishly after dozing off midsentence. A stocky man with a ...Twine added 16 months ago
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Discover the Science of Health | Highlight HEALTHIn the human brain, a complex network of fiber pathways link all regions of the cerebral cortex. This “brain wiring” is responsible for shaping neural activation patterns. To better understand the structural basis of functional connectivity patterns in the human brain, researchers at Indiana ...
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