trusting people make better lie detectors! “Trusting others may not make you necessarily a fool or a Pollyanna, according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE). Instead it can be a sign that you’re smart.” video quality less important if you are enjoying Read more…
Here are some of my readings for today: looks can deceive “That there should be a match between perception and reality is not surprising, because evolution ruthlessly eliminates the unfit. If you routinely misperceive or even hallucinate and act on those misapprehensions, you won’t survive long in a world filled Read more…
Here’s what I am reading today: mice regain movement after spinal chord injury “The removed enzyme PTEN, a phosphatase and tensin homolog, helps to dictate activity in the mTOR pathway, which plays a role in cell growth. During maturation, PTEN is activated, halting cell regeneration, but after removing it from Read more…
artificial life forms evolve intelligence “FOR generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They’re not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed. Then something remarkable happens. One steps forward, and that changes everything. Tens of thousands of generations down the line, some of its descendents Read more…
Here is what I am reading about today: what influences psychopathic traits ‘The study, the first to identify a specific gene associated with psychopathic tendencies in youth, appears this month in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. People with psychopathic traits generally are more callous and unemotional than their peers, said Read more…