Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Here are two good lists of Cognitive Biases and human mental frailties.
Monkeymagic » Cognitive Bias
Why We do Dumb or Irrational Things: 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies
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From the Wall Street Journal:
“When children get lost in a mall, they’re supposed to find a ‘low-risk adult’ to help them. Guidelines issued by police departments and child-safety groups often encourage them to look for ‘a pregnant woman,’ ‘a mother pushing a stroller’ or ‘a grandmother.’
The implied message: Men, even dads pushing strollers, are [...]
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Saturday, October 6, 2007
From Chronicle.com:
“‘Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. He served a dark and an angry god.’ Thus begins Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece, Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a darkly comic tale of multiple murders and unwitting cannibalism. Who is this dark, angry god? And why did Todd serve him?
Set in Dickensian London, Sweeney Todd [...]
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From Mindhacks (again!)
Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman recently gave a two day masterclass on his work. It’s now been made available on Edge as transcripts and video clips.
Kahneman has done a huge amount of work on cognitive biases - the quirks of mind that make us deviate from rationality, sometimes in quite surprising and [...]
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Mind Hacks: APA military mental health special:
“The latest edition of the American Psychological Association’s monthly magazine has a special feature on military mental health.
The issue is timely, as mental illness in the US military is at an all time high and military mental health services were recently described as ‘woefully inadequate’ by a Pentagon task [...]
Monday, September 24, 2007
Ever wonder why those beaten and abused spouses stay with their abusers? Do you know why it is so hard to stop a gambling habit? It has to do with a bizarre trick of nature called variable reinforcement, and it can keep us trapped in behaviours for life.
From “Don’t Shoot the Dog!” by Karen [...]
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
From SFGAte.com comes “Femme Mentale” - San Francisco neuropsychiatrist says differences between women’s and men’s brains are very real, and the sooner we all understand it, the better
From Nature.com come Why sex matters for neuroscience by Larry Cahill
A rapidly burgeoning literature documents copious sex influences on brain anatomy, chemistry and function. This article highlights [...]
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I am referring to Inaugural Conference on Disease Mongering.
‘Disease-mongering’ is the expansion of the boundaries of disorders, the medicalisation of normal life events and the portrayal of risk factors as diseases.
It is a massive problem that is driven mostly by medical and pharmaceutical marketing.
The conference website is here: http://www.diseasemongering.org
The Public Library of Science has papers [...]
From an interview with Gabor Mate, who wrote the bestseller “When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-disease Connection“:
No personality causes disease. So there’s no cancer personality. However, there are some common traits that, if they are present in exaggerated degrees, will make you more predisposed to the disease. They don’t cause it, but make [...]
TheStar.com - The cult of the mean girl
Another addition to the Women’s Inhumanity to Women theme. Worth a read.
See also these previous posts:
“I told you that bitch was crazy” or woman’s inhumanity to women
Are Girls Really as Mean as Books Say They Are?
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