Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
We should recognise just how different human minds are from non-human minds, rather than emphasising the continuity between them, as Darwin mistakenly did.
Relating to celebrities could be beneficial to some people with low self-esteem.
Mondays aren't as bad as you think.
Being happy could harm children's studies.
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: People like their bosses to have high emotional intelligence, even more than high IQ. Also: "participants favoured young, male bosses and old, female bosses over old, male bosses and young, female...
- Alison Gopnik: Parenthood
I’ve had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling. Our love for children is so unlike any other human emotion. I fell in love with my babies so quickly...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Women in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle prefer bigger pupils - the kind found in eyes, not schools. Belief in an essentialist ("ethnic") definition of nationality is linked with negative...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: If money doesn’t make us happy, why do we act as if it does? (Apologies to readers hoping to escape the non-stop financial news!). Teaching parents how to teach their children to read. Gender...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Are capacity bottlenecks in the brain's information processing pathways, at the heart of many mental conditions and disorders? Differences between monkey and human mirror-neuron systems. Ageing...
Neuroscience
Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:We should recognise just how different human minds are from non-human minds, rather than emphasising the continuity between them, as Darwin mistakenly did.
Relating to celebrities could be beneficial to some people with low self-esteem.
Mondays aren't as bad as you think.
Being happy could harm children's studies.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: People like their bosses to have high emotional intelligence, even more than high IQ. Also: "participants favoured young, male bosses and old, female bosses over old, male bosses and young, female...
- Alison Gopnik: Parenthood
I’ve had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling. Our love for children is so unlike any other human emotion. I fell in love with my babies so quickly...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Women in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle prefer bigger pupils - the kind found in eyes, not schools. Belief in an essentialist ("ethnic") definition of nationality is linked with negative...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: If money doesn’t make us happy, why do we act as if it does? (Apologies to readers hoping to escape the non-stop financial news!). Teaching parents how to teach their children to read. Gender...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Are capacity bottlenecks in the brain's information processing pathways, at the heart of many mental conditions and disorders? Differences between monkey and human mirror-neuron systems. Ageing...