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Neuroeconomics Explained, Part One
Neuroeconomics Explained, Part Two
While searching the web the other day, I found two very interesting introductory articles on neuroeconomics on Psychology Today. The author is Paul J. Zak who is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. In his bio on his [...]

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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 [...]

Go get it at Encephalon 54

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]