Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
The economics of MILF! Slate explores how economics and game theory explain the shortage of available, appealing men in the 30s and beyond.
Has a selection bias found in the ‘Monty Hall problem’ affected findings in certain types of cognitive dissonance research? NYT’s TierneyLab blog investigates.
Some old school video footage of B.F. Skinner is discovered by Channel N.
PsychCentral looks at a new study on farm animal therapy. No, really.
I don’t smoke that heavy shit. Terra Sigillata on recent poisoning caused by dealers adulterating marijuana with lead.
While we’re on the subject of strange trips, Neurophilosophy celebrates the 65th anniversary of LSD.
MIT’s TechReview on how new genetic mapping tools are helping understand the neuroscience of autism.
BBC News reports on a nice two way interaction as the anaesthetic sevoflurane gas selectively reduces memory for high-emotion images.
The ‘I know I know it but can’t bring it to mind’ tip-of-the-tongue state gives an insight into the psychology of language, as detailed in an article from American Scientist.
The NYT considers the possibility of having silicon memory chips implanted into our brain to boost our memory capacity.
To the bunkers! The Guardian discusses the future of robots with personalities for everyday tasks. Call-Me-Kenneth is that you?
Treatment Online looks at recent research linking brain size to the chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
Forensic psychology or medicalisation of a super-villain? You decide as psychologist Tim Stevens looks into the mind of the Green Goblin for Marvel News.
The Boston Herald looks at the behavioural economics of banking and long-term finance.
Better living through neurological self-tampering. The NYT looks at the history of altering our brain chemistry.
The Guardian has a first-person account of one writer’s experience of group therapy for depression.
This is your brain on free choice. Mixing Memory has a good retrospective on studies that use brain scanning to ‘mind read’.
A couple more good articles on emerging technologies from MIT’s Tech Review: one on modelling surprise and another on connectomics.
The BPS Research Digest has a piece on a fascinating but difficult-to-explain finding: fold your arms to boost your performance.
To the bunkers! The Washington Post on artificial intelligence technology being deployed for population monitoring and control.
The Neurocritic has a great roundup of studies that have looked at the effect of sexy pictures of male reasoning.
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