Congrats to last year’s APS student research group for getting some nice recognition in this quarter’s issue (Jan/Feb) of Scientific American Mind. Writer David DiSalvo incorporated our results into his article “Are Social Networks Messing With Your Head?” We found that in contrast with previous reports of people “being somebody Read more…
Needless to say, the holiday season poses some special challenges to those of us who are either trying to lose weight or maintain a weight loss. Some of the most challenging choices face us when we are looking at temptations with a time frame. If you’re thinking that eating holiday Read more…
This quarter, I was asked by the Honors Program to teach a one-unit credit-no credit honors seminar to accompany Intro Psych. This immediately raised a question in my mind–what do you do with a group of very bright students in a one unit credit/no credit course that does not waste Read more…
Researchers at UCSD are in the process of dissecting famous Patient H.M.’s brain on the first anniversary of his death. H.M., of course, is the anterograde amnesia patient all of us rely on so much in our discussions of the hippocampus. Many thanks to Joe Schroeder of FUN (Faculty for Read more…
Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday. It reminds us to take a moment out of our busy lives to think about how many blessings we truly enjoy. However, Robert Emmons of UC Davis and Michael McCullough of the University of Miami believe that being grateful on a regular basis is important Read more…