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...
Category: Thinking Meat Project
Posts from my blog the Thinking Meat Project (2006–2018)
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...
Love, love, love
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...
How do we know someone’s in there?
A couple of researchers at Harvard have investigated people’s perceptions of other people’s minds. Volunteers had to consider 13 different entities:...
Judging a book by its cover
It’s tempting to guess personality traits from a person’s face, and novelists sometimes will give a character facial features that supposedly indica...