October 22, 2008 – 03:02 am
From the Atlantic’s First Person Plural: “We used to think that the hard part of the question ‘How can I be happy?’ had to do with nailing down the definition of happy. But it may have more to do with the definition of I.”
October 14, 2008 – 12:56 pm
From Slate’s Extremism at McCain Rallies Comes Naturally: “Social psychologists have conducted scores of these ‘group polarization’ experiments since the ’60s, and they all come to the same finding: Like-minded people in a group grow more extreme in the way they are like-minded.”
December 13, 2007 – 12:00 pm
From the Right Brain vs Left Brain Creativity Test at The Art Institute of Vancouver: “Being creative or artistic doesn’t mean you know how to draw or play an instrument. Being creative is a way of thinking, a way of viewing the world.” [Find out how your brain works by taking the test.]
September 10, 2006 – 12:50 pm
In Hello, My Name is Unique, which I swear I only found after naming Oonagh MacCoul, Psychology Today looks at the psychological implications of first names, trying to find out whether an idiosyncratic name has a positive or negative effect on its owner.
April 17, 2006 – 11:27 am
In I’m O.K., You’re Biased, a Harvard professor of psychology tries to demonstrate that “doctors, judges, consultants and vice presidents strive for truth more often than we realize, and miss that mark more often than they realize. Because the brain cannot see itself fooling itself, the only reliable method for avoiding bias is to avoid [...]
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