The happiness set point reconsidered
The positive psychology movement, which studies happiness, is not really all that old, but it’s old enough for some of its findings to have become so wide...
Author: Mary
Modeling the evolution of communication
This press release from EurekAlert describes some research into how communication strategies evolve among social creatures. This is a difficult area to study by...
Religion and aggression
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...
Book review: The God Delusion
A number of books on the theme of faith and reason have been published lately. I just finished one of them, The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins. This book give...
Evidence of adult neurogenesis
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...
Possible evolutionary roots of depression
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...
Childhood attachment and adult relationships
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 ...
Yes, but did they have a wiki?
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...
Brain activity used to predict mental action
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...
The insula and addiction
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...