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Awesome Animal Video of the Week: Struggling to Mate
From the new National Geographic Great Migrations mini-series. Open comment thread: Did you watch it last night? What did you think?
Stories by Jason G. Goldman
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What Is Psychopathology? Examining the Changing Status of ADHD
Despite the fact that my research lies at the intersection between cognitive, comparative, and developmental psychology, I am also quite interested in the evolution of our understanding of psychopathology...
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What Is Mental Illness? A Mini-Carnival
Welcome to the mental illness mini-carnival! Mental illness, or psychopathology, is a field riddled with controversy and it can be sometimes confusing to wade through all the uncertainty and conflicting data and opinions...
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Vaccination, Confirmation Bias, and Knowing Your Audience
“When men wish to construct or support a theory, how they torture facts into their service!” Even in 1852, psychologists like Charles Mackay, who wrote those words in his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, were well aware of the dangers of confirmation bias...
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Remembering Yitzchak Rabin
I don’t often get too personal on this blog, but today is an important day. Fifteen years ago, Israeli Prime Minster Yitzchak Rabin was assassinated after speaking at a peace rally in Tel Aviv in Kikar Malchei Yisrael (now called Kikar Rabin)...
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Open Lab 2010: Only One Month Left to Submit!
There is only one month left for submissions! Dig through your archives, through other people’s archives and submit! I’ve already started to contact potential reviewers for this year’s anthology...
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Carnival of Evolution #29
Carnival of Evolution #29 is being hosted this month at Byte Size Biology. Click on the big green button for lots of evolutionary wonderfulness.
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Editor’s Selections: Enrichment, Ballerinas, Salmon, and Telepathy
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: Another week of top-notch psychology and neuroscience blogging! Should captive cephalopods be kept in “enriched” environments?...
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Real Life Werewolves? Happy Halloween!
Shortly after the publication of this paper, Chapman received a short note from a local farmer: "Have you university types ever looked at whether dog bites happen more around the full moon?...
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Forget Elephants; Sea Lions Never Forget!
Meet Rio. Rio is a California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus). She was born in captivity at Marine World in Northern California, and due to insufficient maternal care from her biological mother, she was transferred to the Long Marine Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz when she was just a few days old...
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Editor’s Selections: Scary Things and Classic Experiments
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. This was an awesome week for psychology and neuroscience blogging! I had a hard time picking just three or four, so here are six: Korsakoff’s Syndrome is a fascinating neuropsychiatric disorder marked by fantastic stories, told by patients, about things that have happened to them...
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Robot Lizard Push-ups
Have you ever been walking through the forest and thought to yourself, “Damn, its loud here…it’s really, really hard to hear anything anybody else is saying”?
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TV Review: National Geographic Great Migrations
Last night, I was a guest of the National Geographic Channel at the historic Saban Theater in Beverly Hills for the United States premiere of Great Migrations, which airs internationally on Sunday, November 7...
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Elephant Seals and Donors Choose Update
Check out this awesome David Attenborough video: So far the readers of this fair blog have managed to fully fund two Donors Choose science education requests.
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Editor’s Selections: Babies, Balls, Altruism, and Smoking
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: “Amazingly, babies as small as 12 months old show some understanding of the difference between the deliberate and goal-directed “agents” that can cause order, such as a person, and those randomly acting inanimate objects that cannot, such as a bouncing ball.” Daniel Daza of the [...]..
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Ed Tronick and the “Still Face Experiment”
In 1975, Edward Tronick and colleagues first presented the “still face experiment” to colleagues at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
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Learn to Speak Primate
Non-human primate, that is, Ape actor Peter Elliott shares his knowledge of chimpanzee and gorilla vocabulary and facial expressions. via IMDb: Peter Elliott is the film industry's primary primate...
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Pessimistic Pooches? Depressed Doggies? Not So Fast!
Does Fido see the cup as half full? Is your dog pessimistic? Last time we saw headlines like these they were about a certain barnyard animal.
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Editor’s Selections: Kid Scientists, Blogging, Election Orgasms, and Digital Literacy
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: “Young children are little scientists. They instinctively stretch, prod, observe and categorise the world’s offerings.” Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest discusses how early children can be exposed to scientific ideas...
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I’ve been interviewed…
…by DeLene Beeland, for the Raleigh News Observer and the Charlotte Observer (same interview, two papers).
