Preception

Source: OpPapers.com

Perception of Facial Expressions Differs Across Cultures ScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2011) — Facial expressions have been called the "universal language of emotion," but people from different cultures perceive happy, sad or angry ...
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Out of Office Autoreply: Where Are You, Dammit?!

Source: The Epicurean Dealmaker

Elizabeth Gilbert wants you to fool yourself. Of course this is a psychological dodge. A trick an artist can use on him- or herself to externalize the mysterious, elusive creative spark which offers and even more rarely delivers true tran ...
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Genetic Traits Likely to Predispose Voters to Elect a Specific Candidate

Source: Medindia Health News

A populations genetic traits could be a better indicator of predicting the outcome of general elections after a new study conducted by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine revealed that the traits could make people predisposed tow ...
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The Self Illusion: An Interview With Bruce Hood

Source: 3 Quarks Daily

LEHRER: The title of The Self Illusion is literal. You argue that the self – this entity at the center of our personal universe – is actually just a story, a “constructed narrative.” Could you explain what you mean? HOOD: ...
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Why Everyone Turns into a Child at Family Gatherings, and What You Can Do About It

Source: Psychology Today

Recent neuropsychological research has given us greater understanding of this phenomenon. According to neuropsychologist Daniel Siegel, our brains tend to respond to familiar situations and people with habitual patterns. In his book The Developin ...
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Bird brains

Source: Buffalo News

Why wasn’t this intruder getting the message? The lord of the manor had warned him repeatedly to back off, with threatening gestures and loud admonitions. But the trespasser just sat there, singing. The time for detente was past. In a flurry o ...
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Patients are more than multiple choice questions

Source: Kevin, M.D.

It felt good to stuff the stethoscope back into my pocket and slip into the emergency department last night. The constant ringing of phones, beeping of cardiac monitors, and distant wail of inbound EMS units wa ...
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Music: It's in your head, changing your brain

Source: WTAE Pittsburgh

Michael Jackson was on to something when he sang that "A-B-C" is "simple as 'Do Re Mi.'" Music helps kids remember basic facts such as the order of letters in the alphabet, partly because songs tap into fundamental ...
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The trouble with fMRI

Source: Mind Hacks

Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. I’ve written a piece for The Observer about ‘the trouble with brain scans’ that discusses how past fMRI studies may have been based on proble ...
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