Author: Mary

This news story is related to some comments in response to the review of the Richard Dawkins book that I posted the other day. The comments have turned to the q...

It’s been a long week and right now I feel like large portions of my brain have shorted out or maybe simply evaporated. It seems like what I heard while I...

The Los Angeles Times recently ran a story about evolutionary psychology as it relates to depression. (Thanks to Cashew for pointing this out!) The article disc...

In honor of Valentine’s Day, here’s one more article about love, specifically about the psychology of romantic relationships. For 25 years, a group ...

Well, the header is a little frivolous, but it has been a long hard slog on the day job today, and I have been beset with domestic ills (e.g., the mice that cam...

Sometimes I think even I don’t know what I’m planning to do next. But a team of researchers has figured out a way to look at brain activity and pred...

There was a news story recently about smokers who suffered damage to a part of the brain called the insula; some of them totally lost their craving for cigarett...

Well, you can tell Valentine’s Day is coming up; after blogging a couple of stories that came out last week about mating and sex, I now find that the Amer...

A couple of researchers at Harvard have investigated people’s perceptions of other people’s minds. Volunteers had to consider 13 different entities:...