1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology

The Dunning–Kruger Effect: On Being Ignorant of One's Own Ignorance JavaScript is disabled on your browser. Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. Abstract In this chapter, I provide argument and evidence that the scope of people's ignorance is often invisible to them. This meta-ignorance (or ignorance of ignorance) arises because lack of expertise and knowledge often hides in the realm of the “unknown unknowns” or is disguised by erroneous beliefs and background knowledge that only appear to be sufficient to conclude a right answer. As empirical evidence of meta-ignorance, I describe the Dunning–Kruger effect, in which poor performers in many social and intellectual domains seem largely unaware of just how deficient their expertise is.

Study documents music’s 13 universal emotions Over 2,500 people from the U.S. and China listened to the same music and were similarly affected by it. The study identifies a specific set of feelings that music can evoke, which you can experience in this incredible interactive map. Further research can use these findings to figure out how music stirs emotion in us. "Music is a universal language, but we don't always pay enough attention to what it's saying and how it's being understood," says neuroscience doctoral student Alan Cowen of UC Berkeley and the lead author of a new study aimed at identifying the feelings music conveys. He and senior author psychologist Dacher Keltner, also of UC Berkeley, surveyed thousands of American and Chinese listeners to derive a list of 13 of music's emotional languages, along with the types of music that evoke them. The purpose of the study

How to Use Carl Jung's Shadow Work Process for Rapid Personal Growth We live in a world of duality. Here and there. Hot and cold. Yin and yang. We asked teenagers what adults are missing about technology. This was the best response. “What do adults not know about my generation and technology?” MIT Technology Review posed this question in an essay contest open to anyone 18 or younger. We received 376 submissions from young people in 28 different countries. Many were angry; some were despondent. The War on Kids (2009 THE WAR ON KIDS is a 95 minute documentary that shows how American public schools continue to become more dangerously authoritarian. In addition to failing in their mission to educate effectively, they erode the country's democratic foundation and often resemble prisons. School children are interviewed as are high school teachers and administrators, as well as prison security guards, plus renowned educators and authors including: Henry Giroux: Author of Stealing Innocence Corporate Culture's War on Children Mike A.

Reading Jung: Symbols of Transformation – Self-realization Carl Jung’s Volume 5 titled Symbols of Transformation (SoT) is one of Jung’s more difficult texts to read and understand. Many years after writing the text, Jung looked back and said: “I have never felt happy about this book… It was written at top speed… There was no opportunity to let my thoughts mature. The whole thing came to me like a landslide that could not be stopped. The urgency that lay behind it became clear to me only later: it was an explosion of all those psychic contents which could find no room, no breathing-space, in the constricting atmosphere of Freudian psychology.”

This 10-Year Time Lapse of the Solar Cycle Is Breathtaking This weekend, you should probably go stare at the sun. While this would normally be an ill-advised thing to do, thanks to a recently released time-lapse depicting the sun's solar cycle, you could do this safely while social-distancing from the comfort of your home. In February 2010, NASA launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a first-of-its-kind spacecraft with one job to do: study the sun. Now, using some of the 425 million photos the SDO has collected so far, NASA has created a stunning time-lapse depicting the sun's solar cycle, an 11-year-long period bookended by the flipping of the star's magnetic poles. The Solar Cycle The hour-long video begins at a point in the sun's solar cycle called the "solar minimum."

8 Studies Demonstrating the Power of Simplicity Psychological research on cognitive fluency shows why easy to understand = more profitable, more pleasurable, more intelligent and safer. Which of these would you say sounds like the more dangerous food additive: Hnegripitrom or Magnalroxate? The majority of people say Hnegripitrom sounds more dangerous. It turns out that the word ‘Magnalroxate’ is easier to think about than ‘Hnegripitrom’, probably because it’s more pronounceable, and people equate simplicity with safety (actually both words are made up). This is one example of psychological research on meta-cognition: thoughts about other thoughts. About The concept of the Archetype and it significance in spiritual alchemy. The concept of the archetype is central to spirituality in general because it is the inherent, transpersonal nature of the archetypal components of the psyche that act as the motivator and guiding force in the Adept. The archetypes, therefore, can be seen as spiritual instincts.

This French tech school has no teachers, no books, no tuition PARIS — École 42 might be one of the most ambitious experiments in engineering education. It has no teachers. No books. No MOOCs. No dorms, gyms, labs, or student centers. No tuition.