Remission of Major Depression Under Deep Brain Stimulation of the Lateral Habenula in a Therapy-Refractory Patient « EMERGING IDEAS IN NEURAL SCIENCE. The Poetry of Science: Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Daniel Dennett - Free Will Determinism and Evolution. Science | Human Stupidity: Irrationality, Self Deception.
We have always been baffled about "victimization". The teenage sexuality, child porn, irrational drug prohibition witch hunts are based on victimization theories. These victimization theories are so outlandish, they make the medieval "theory that witches cause hail storm" look like sound science. First come our preconceived moral judgments. Then we find justifications and victims. In deciding what other people shouldn’t do, people don’t necessarily start with some principle and go from there. All quotes from: Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind * (Robert Kurzban) (p. 188 ff | Kindle Loc. 2322-64) first comes a moral judgment, like "promiscuity is bad", "creeps who possess child porn photos need to be punished", "having sex with adolescents is disgusting" (or "smoking marijuana is bad").
Tiger Woods, hypocrisy, moral condemnation of promiscuity: where are the victims of a billionaire’s secret dalliances? Who are you calling a victim? Kurzban is a scientist. Offsetting Behaviour: Kanazawa [updated] I've been a fan of Satoshi Kanazawa; I've long had regrets that I didn't know he was at Canterbury for the couple of months we overlapped there. Not entirely unsurprisingly, he's gone and annoyed some folks. This time it's looking serious. The Add Health data series interviews high schoolers in three waves, making a nice panel data set.
One question asks the interviewer to rate the respondent's attractiveness on a five point scale. Satoshi ran some regressions on attractiveness and found racial differences in means after correcting for possible confounds like weight; black women, but not men, were found less attractive in the surveys. The pile-on has been pretty brutal. Here's Huffington calling him a racist. Lindsay Beyerstein is less than charitable in her interpretation of Kanazawa's stats.
Hank Campbell is no more generous, with lots of snarky scare quotes about what factor analysis is. Here's Linda Gottfredson on IQ and health; here's Garrett Jones on IQ and economic outcomes. Scientia est Potentia - Plus. Onde são salvos meus melhores artigos, os mais formais, de qualidade diria humildemente acadêmica, especialmente do agora em extinção , sobre temas de Filosofia, Engenharia, Tecnologia e Ciências.
Chemical Engineer - PUCRS - RS - Brazil (1989). Nascido em Passo Fundo - RS - Brasil, em 1965. Estudo Química, especialmente, desde meus 9 anos de idade, iniciando em 1974, descobrindo tal vocação com a série Os Cientistas, da Editora Abril e FUNBEC (Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento de Ensino de Ciências). Participante do Congresso Jovens Cientistas e Concurso Cientistas do Amanhã, em 1977. Projeto de Iniciação Científica em Síntese de Corantes, iniciado em 1985, encerrado em 1988. Entrei para o mercado de trabalho como técnico químico em 1986, na área de aplicações de corantes. Engenheiro Químico, formado na PUCRS em 1989.
De 1994 até a atualidade, atuando como consultor para empresas em dificuldades financeiras e ocasionalmente, em Química e Tecnologia. Uma frase: Pascal Boyer: Why ritualized behaviour in humans? Freaks of Nature: book review by Paul R. Gross. The original meanings of “monster” implied no disparagement: our word derives from the Latin monstrum – an unusual, unexpected occurrence that carries – for that reason – a message from the gods. Of course the term has evolved; it has acquired additional meanings including some that express revulsion. The latter reflect the common human responses to departures from the ordinary. Still, we may well object to the disparaging uses of “monster,” surely in speaking of humans; and so to object is probably humane. The plea to resist ignorant derogation of freaks, stated or implied, is ubiquitous in Freaks of Nature. And who can deny it? The book has, however, a purpose more important than that display of humane sensitivity.
What were those flaws? To take the reader down the path of this argument, updated and rationalized, the author presents with enthusiasm, documentation, and fascinating details what he describes, justifiably, as “a parliament” of monsters. Does anyone argue with this? Antimatter: Violating the rules. 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies. Ten of the most influential social psychology experiments explain why we sometimes do dumb or irrational things. “I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures.Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?” –Philip Zimbardo Like famous social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo (author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil), I’m also obsessed with why we do dumb or irrational things.
The answer quite often is because of other people — something social psychologists have comprehensively shown. Each of the 10 brilliant social psychology experiments below tells a unique, insightful story relevant to all our lives, every day. Click the link in each social psychology experiment to get the full description and explanation of each phenomenon. 1. The halo effect is a finding from a famous social psychology experiment. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. CFI-NYC | Michael Shermer: The Believing Brain. CFI-NYC | The Science and Philosophy of Consciousness. Darwin Day 2012: The Evolution of Altruism and Social Intelligence. Lawrence Krauss: Life, the Universe and Nothing.