Encefalus

The other day I was writing an article for Encefalus concerning economics and studying their relation to psychology. However, as I was writing it, I stumbled upon some problems, like what is the definition of economics. Obviously, modern economists might have different opinions among them, and I, as a psychologist, have a different view on [...]

GeorgeLoewenstein
Remember the article Lotteries, poverty and social implications? I found this article in Scientific American : Lottery Tickets and Credit Cards: The Dangers of an Irrational Brain. It’s an interview with the researcher who’s work we commented in Lotteries, poverty and social implications. He is called George Loewenstein.
What I particularly liked about this interview is [...]

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The Creation Simulation
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.
Remember what we were saying at How the Dark Knight, cartoons and video games make you smarter and what this has to do with the Flynn effect and More proof that video games make you smart ?The above links will take you to two Seed Magazine [...]

A quick guide to Free Will
I found this article the other day on BPS Research Digest. Do you remember Dr. Read Montague we spoke about at How a single neurotransmitter can provide the basis for the explanation of all social phenomena? This post provided a link to his homepage where he has an article he [...]

Near-Death Experiences: What Really Happens?
I stumbled upon this link the other day. It’s about one of the most exciting experiments I’ve ever seen in my life. Scientists will try to study what really happens with near-death experiences.

Many reports of near-death experiences sound the same: a welcoming white light and a replay of memories. But now [...]

Those of you who read this blog for sometime, already know some of my views concerning psychology. I am an avid supporter of "hard science". Science that is based on solid facts and follows the reductionist paradigm. Even though solid facts are not always the answer and reductionism could be replaced in the following decades [...]

I don’t know if you have noticed it, but there’s a site called Scholarpedia. It seems it was created in 2006, but I hadn’t found the site until recently. What is most interesting is that it’s a lot like Knol, since the articles are written by respectful authors with a scientific style. It seems that [...]

I found on Dr Robin Rosenberg’s blog, Psychablog, this post: Clarifications about the Dark Knight. Those of you who have watched the movie maybe were confused about the part where Batman tries to save Rachel, but he saves Harvey Dent. Many of us didn’t really understand what happened. Dr Rosenberg offers the following clarification based [...]

I was reading the other day on Psychology Today this article: Dropping atomic bombs on Japan was an act of utmost compassion. The author of the post is Satoshi Kanazawa who is also the co-author of the book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters. I have not read the book, so I can’t comment on [...]

The September edition of The Psychologist has two articles that deal with tales in psychology. Like all sciences, psychology has its own historical experiments. Their stories, however, have been blurred with unbased facts. This is not restricted to psychology. Physics for example has the popular tale of the apple falling on Newton’s head. However, in [...]

The grandma has freaked out!
The greek newspaper To Vima publishes once a week, a magazine along with the newspaper called Vimagazino. I was reading the other day and I found a very funny article which shows how utterly stupid sometimes psychiatrists can be.
This article was published in an one page column where the readers submit [...]