Pier Ferrari and his colleagues at the University of Parma in Italy just published an article titled Neonatal Imitation in Rhesus Macaques in PLOS–Biology. The authors demonstrated imitation of actions such as lip smacking and tongue protrusion on the infant monkeys’ Read more…
Thomas Z. Ramsøy, a long-time member and frequent contributor to the Evolutionary Psychology listserv, and Martin Skov have a blog called Brainethics: Consequences of Brain Science. Biological psychology faculty would be particularly interested in a page of “Readings in Neuroethics.” The Read more…
College students in the United States frequently complain about the cost of textbooks. How would you feel, however, if ONE textbook cost 20% of your annual income? That is essentially the problem in developing nations like Uganda. To combat Read more…
I really do love psychology, but on occasion, I fantasize about being a student again today and what I might choose to study. Hands down, the most fun major I’ve heard of anywhere is the University of Southern California’s Interactive Read more…
Every year, the kind people at Beloit College remind us boomer faculty that it’s time to update our classroom examples. When I first taught intro psychology, I could use John F. Kennedy’s assassination as my example of “flashbulb memories.” Then Read more…