Feeling Fear, and Acting on It, written 2 days ago, As long as a team is winning, everything is great, right? Who wants to change a system or work on player dynamics or adjust defensive assignments when the squad is rolling? But then, somehow, the team loses. Bad luck? Too cocky? Not focused? Just a...

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Dealing with Postpartum, written 1 month ago, I haven't talked much about it with most people around me but I have been back in therapy and have been put on meds for postpartum. I guess I started feeling down a couple months after I had my baby boy. I told my family doctor and she put me on Zoloft. ...

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I can't imagine it, written 1 day ago, I've always liked an epitaph supposedly used by Epicureans in ancient Greece: "I was not; I was; I am not; I do not mind." It expresses a benign resignation toward the inevitability of death as part of the natural cycle. And although it's written in t...

New Version of the Moral Sense Test, Especially Designed for Philosophers, written 2 days ago, Fiery Cushman at Harvard and I are running a new version of the "Moral Sense Test", which asks respondents to make moral judgments about hypothetical scenarios. We're especially hoping to recruit...

Using Loneliness in the Intro Psych Classroom–An Update, written 5 days ago, As you may have noticed, I am experimenting with the use of Loneliness with my introductory psychology students. We're doing a lot of out of class projects, but I also wanted to incorporate some in-class activities. Yeste...

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Escaping down an electrode, written 1 day ago, Esquire magazine (of all places) has an excellent neuroscience article that discusses the case of Erik Ramsey, a young man with locked-in syndrome whose only hope for communicating with the outside world is a prototype brain computer interface that need...

American Culture Derails Girl Math Whizzes, Study Finds, written 2 days ago, A culture of neglect and, at some age levels, outright social ostracism, is derailing a generation of students, especially girls, deemed the very best in mathematics, according to a new study.

The Scan That Didn't Scan - NYTimes.com, written 1 day ago, This is a story about M.R.I.'s, those amazing scans that can show tissue injury and bone damage, inflammation and fluid accumulation. Except when they can't and you think they can. I found out about magnetic resonance imaging tests when I i...

The Democrats are trying to steal the election, written 1 day ago, The liberal group ACORN, which has been engaging in massive voter fraud across the country, tried to register Mickey Mouse to vote in Florida.

True and False Memories - a new paper, written 3 days ago, No time to blog properly, but just wanted to draw your attention to a new paper (download via SSRN) on separating true from false memories. Here's the abstract: Many people believe that emotional memories (including those that arise in thera...

Eddie Adcock's Brain Surgery, written 1 day ago, Just ran across an amazing video of part of a surgical procedure done on the brain of a bluegrass musician (Eddie Adcock); he is playing his banjo while they are fine-tuning the placement of electrodes to reduce a tremor that he had developed; the tre...

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Parenting Winning Children - The Guidance Psychology of High Expectations, written 1 week ago, “I worried about my oldest daughter keeping her virginity while she was in high school. Now, just ten years later, I lay awake nights, anxious that my youngest girl will be ...

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Pluto in Capricorn: The Shadow Afoot in Dreams and in Life, written 2 days ago, This morning, as we do roughly every Monday or Tuesday, a friend and I got on the phone to discuss one dream each that we'd had over the weekend. Though this morning our respective dreams were quite different, they both ...

No Internet, written 2 weeks ago, Unfortunately I don't have internet access here in Nottingham. Although the Hall of Residence I am in provides internet acess, my laptop seems to be only one unable to connect to the internet, no matter what I try or how often I call the helpline. In addition, at th...