General Psychology
Saving Dogs, Pigs, or Humans
As much as we love our pets, we also view human life as being in a special category. Is this always the case? Or do we gradually learn to think this way? Matti Wilks, a post doc in the Mind Read more…
As much as we love our pets, we also view human life as being in a special category. Is this always the case? Or do we gradually learn to think this way? Matti Wilks, a post doc in the Mind Read more…
Back in the day when I was in grad school, I worked with Ron Siegel on hallucinations in rhesus monkeys. Ron had a gadget called a parabolic mirror that made an object at the bottom of the mirror look like Read more…
In the midst of copy editing a 53-page, three-column, single-spaced pdf of references for our intro psych textbook, it occurred to me that I honestly didn’t know how much faculty or students actually use the reference list in textbooks, or Read more…
One of my favorite websites is Our World in Data. This week, they posted a really interesting analysis of the people with whom we interact on a daily basis over our lifespans. In adolescence, our time is split between friends Read more…
I am no stranger to diets, having lost basically the same pounds on a number of occasions until finally, Jenny Craig fixed me. But I have to confess to feeling baffled when I realized something needed to be done for Read more…