Two Main Types Of Consciousness Research
from "Returning from Oblivion: Imaging the Neural Core of Consciousness"
Dopamine, Creativity And Schizophrenia
from "Dopamine System in Highly Creative People Similar to That Seen in Schizophrenics, Study Finds"
Bonobo Cannibalism: Bonobos Observed Eating Their Young
from "Hippy apes caught cannibalising their young"
Bonobos Hunt And Kill Monkeys And Duikers
from "Loving bonobos have a carnivorous dark side"
Why Many Left-Liberals Belong To The Cult Of The Bonobo?
from "A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain"
Chimpanzees Have Many Building Blocks Of Human Moral Systems
from "A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain"
Feelings Of Disgust Influence Moral Judgements In Some
from "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion"
Hypnosis Can Have Measurable Effect On The Brain
from "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion"
Cognitive Load And Moral Judgements
from "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion"
Ingroups, Outgroups, Group Cohesion And The Ilongot
from "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion"
Honour, Jealousy And Egalitarianism
from "A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain"
Social Norms, The Brain And Morality
from "A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain"
Curiousity, Conscientiousness And Intelligence Important or Academic Performance
from "Curiosity Is Critical to Academic Performance"
David Hume And Albert Michotte On Causation
from "Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us"
For Laplace, Institutions Of Science Were Not A Meritocracy
from "The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy"
Brain Training Improves Intelligence In Some (But Not All) Children?
from "Memory training improves intelligence in some children, report says"
Notions Of Fairness And Justice Among The Machiguenga
from "A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain"
How Most People React To The Trolley Problem
from "A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain"
Gene-Culture Feedback Loop
from "A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain"
Women Worse At Conflict Resolution?
from "A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain"
Most People Are Delusional
from "Positive Illusions and Well-Being Revisited: Separating Fact From Fiction"
Intelligent People Tend To Have More Efficient Brains
from "Could Brain Imaging Replace The SAT?"
Adaptation: Usually Something Done To Us
from "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure"
A Moral Sense In Humans
from "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature"
Sex Ratio And Gender Roles
from "Sex ratio dynamics and fluctuating selection on personality"
On The Increasing Diagnoses Of Autism
from "The Autism Controversy Revisited"
Consciousness And The Claustrum
from "2012 : WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP, ELEGANT, OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION? : Genes , Claustrum, and Consciousness"
MacKinnon: Briefcase Syndrome Of Creativity
from "Genius and Eminence"
Briefcase Syndrome Of Creativity
from "Creativity: Asset of Burden in the Classroom?"
Consciousness And The Brain Stem
from "Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness"
Mental Illness/Disorder: Culturally Derived
from "Do some cultures have their own ways of going mad?"
Critical Period For Mammalian Vision
from "Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex"
Auto-Associative Memories
from "On Intelligence"
What Does "Understanding" Really Mean: The Chinese Room
from "On Intelligence"
The Brain: Self-Organized Criticality: Neuronal Avalanches
from "Disorderly Genius: How Chaos Drives The Brain"
The Brain Is Not A Feed Forward Neural Network
from "On Intelligence"
Taking Things Apart And Examining The Pieces
from "Growing up with Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps"
Tinbergen’s Four Questions
from "Evolutionary Aspects of Aggression: The Importance of Sexual Selection"
Proximate Explanations Versus Ultimate Explanations
from "Evolutionary Aspects of Aggression: The Importance of Sexual Selection"
Discovery Of General Intelligence
from "The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence"
We Don't Have A Clue How The Brain Works
from "On Intelligence"
Risk: Academia Versus Entrepreneurship
from "On Intelligence"
Skin Conductance And The Intense World
from "Skin Conductance Responses to Another Person’s Gaze in Children with Autism"
The Intense World
from "Why autism has nothing to do with 'broken mirrors'"
Artificial General Intelligence Requires Artificial Emotions?
from "Growing up with Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps"
Why Is Back-Propagation Learning So Slow?
from "The Cascade-Correlation Learning Architecutre "
Optic Tectum In Amphibians, Superior Colliculus In Mammals
from "Growing up with Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps"
Four Temperaments View Of Time, Place, Past, Present And Future
from "Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence"
How To Frame Facts To Cause Irrational Fear Of Water: Dihydrogen Monoxide
from "Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!"
Interests Of The Four Temperaments
from "Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence"
Eyes Evolved Multiple Times But Have Common Origin
from "How many genes does it take to make a squid eye?"
Uniform Non-Random Random Numbers
from "Advanced Algorithms for Neural Networks: A C++ Sourcebook"
Evolution Before Darwin
from "The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution"
Quick History Of Evolutionary Algorithms
from "Soft Computing: Integrating Evolutionary, Neural, and Fuzzy"
Guardians, Artisans, Ants And Grasshoppers
from "Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence"
Von Neumann Bottleneck
from "The Connection Machine"
Physicists, Engineers And Mathematicians Often From Autistic Families
from "Autism occurs more often in families of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians."
AQ Test, With Scoring
from "The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ): Evidence from Asperger Syndrome/High-Functioning Autism, Males and Females, Scientists and Mathematicians"
Aspie Children Have Superior Fluid Intelligence
from "Superior fluid intelligence in children with Asperger’s disorder"
The Many Definitions: "Liberal" And "Conservative"
from "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature"
Left-Liberal And Conservative Attitudes Are Heritable
from "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature"
Keirsey Personality Test, With Scoring
from "Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence"
Problematic Child Births And Domestication
from "A Darwinian View of Obstructed Labor"
Large Headed Inuit And Easy Child Birth
from "A Darwinian View of Obstructed Labor"
Expertise Capacity And Hunter-Gatherers
from "Human evolution expanded brains to increase expertise capacity, not IQ"
Adaptations And Spandrels: Internal Combustion Engine Analogy
from "The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution"
Assortative Mating And General Intelligence
from "IQ and Human Intelligence."
What Many Artificial Neural Networks Are Like
from "Fundamentals of Artificial Neural Networks"
Some Uses Of Artificial Neural Networks
from "Fundamentals of Artificial Neural Networks"
Artificial Neural Networks: Seeing The Forest For The Trees
from "Neural Networks Made Simple"
Fundamentally Unidentified Questions
from "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure"
A Big 5 Personality Test, With Scoring
from "The Big-Five Trait Taxonomy: History, Measurement, and Theoretical Perspectives"
Cognitive Style: Left-Liberals Most Feminine, Libertarians Most Masculine
from "Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Roots of an Individualist Ideology"
Connection Between Persian Martial Art Zoor Khane And Indian Wrestling
from "Zoor Khane: History and Techniques of the Ancient Martial Art of Iran"
Corollary To Orgel's Second Rule: Evolution Will Likely Find Unforeseen Loopholes
from "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure"
Connection Between Persian Martial Art Zoor Khane And Turkish Wrestling
from "Zoor Khane: History and Techniques of the Ancient Martial Art of Iran"
The Evolutionary Approach: Small Steps And Occasional Wild Gambles
from "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure"
Peer Review Versus Reproducibility
from "What's Wrong With Research Communication"
Find A Woman Who You Value More Than The Going “Market” Rate
from "The rules of attraction: the not so golden mean"
A Conformity Effect: Agreeing With A Unanimous (But Wrong) Group Verdict
from "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure"
A Human Atavism: An Innate Ability To Recognize Animals
from "Animal-sensitive cells discovered in the human brain"
Easterlin Paradox Is Not True: Richer Countries Tend To Be Happier
from "Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth"
Palchinsky Principles
from "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure"
Many Great Leaps Forward?
from "Non-zero sum transitions in the human past"
Evolution Definition
from "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure"
B Chromosome and Sex Determination in the Cichlid Fish
from "B Chromosomes Affect Sex Determination in Cichlid Fishes"
Limitations Of Those Called "Experts"
from "Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure"
Intelligence is correlated with semen quality; but why?
from "Why is intelligence correlated with semen quality?"
Glia Brain Cells Broadcast Messages
from "The Other Brain"
Micro Brain Waves: It's Not Just About The Connections Between Neurons, But Their Locations Too
from "Are brain waves epiphenomena?"
Human Hearing, Music and Logarithmic Scales
from "Vehicles: Experiments In Synthetic Psychology"
A Pigeon Atavism: An Innate Fear-Response To Snake-Like Things?
from "The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution"
Non-Human Art: The Male Bowerbird of New Guinea
from "The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution"
The Economy Is Not A Machine, It Is An Ecosystem
from "The Economy: Metaphors We (Shouldn't) Live By"
Fluoride, Arsenic and Lead Are Bad For IQ
from "National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia"
The Hungry Human Brain
from "A Body Fit for a Freaky-Big Brain"
High IQ Brains and Reaction to Stimuli
from "National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia"
IQ and Brain Size
from "National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia"
Economics, Utility and Evolution
from "Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World"
Sex and Natural Selection
from "Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World"
Cultural Evolution and Memetics
from "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves"
Matt Ridley on Collective Intelligence
from "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves"
Women (Also) Find Familiarity Attractive -- There Is More To Being Good Looking Than Looking Good
from "How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like"
Disgust Kicks In At Roughly The Age Of Three Or Four
from "How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like"
Garett Jones: What Is Intelligence?
from "National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia"
Some Of What Some Noncoding DNA Might Do?
from "MicroRNAs in the Songbird Brain Respond to New Songs"
Understanding The Nationalism of Modal People
from "7/5/2010 Open Thread"
An Emergent Approach To Artificial General Intelligence
from "Growing up with Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps"
The Four Waves Of English Speaking Immigration To America from 1629 to 1775
from "Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America"
Is she just shy? Or is it Social Anxiety Disorder?
from "Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?"
Aspies are to Neurotypicals, as Neurotypicals are to people with Williams Syndrome
from "On empathy: psychopaths, sociopaths and aspies"
A Secondary Pathway Of Pleasure From Eating Is From Brute Intake Of Energy
from "Why Do We Like the Taste Of Protein?"
A Short Short History Of Our Understanding Of Taste
from "Why Do We Like the Taste Of Protein?"
Reason Used To Seek Truth Is A Spandrel?
from "Reason Seen More as Weapon Than Path to Truth"
Libertarians Pursuading Left-Liberals, On Social Security
from "Grievance and politics"
Some Advantages Of Hybrid Vigor (Heterosis)
from "Population admixture, biological invasions and the balance between local adaptation and inbreeding depression"
Modal Pleasure?
from "How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like"
Essentialist Theory Of Pleasure
from "How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like"
Recognizing Facial Expressions, Motion Helps
from "Facial Expression Is Worth a Thousand Words"
In Canada The Quality Of State Run Medical Service You Receive Depends On Your Age
from "What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us"
Infant Mortality Not Measured The Same All Over The World
from "What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us"
Removal Of "Higher Religion" Does Not Produce Atheism Because Of People's Innate Inclinations Towards Supernatural Beliefs
from "Who believes in the evil eye?"
Effect Of Organized "Higher Religion" On People's Innate Dispositions Towards Supernatural Beliefs
from "Who believes in the evil eye?"
Modal Person Has Innate Inclinations Towards Supernatural Beliefs?
from "Who believes in the evil eye?"
Women Tend To Exhibit Increased Ingroup Behavior During Their Menstrual Cycle
from "Prejudice linked to women's menstrual cycle"
The Cause Of The Cambrian Explosion?
from "Box jellyfish stable-eyes vision to hunt prey"
Non-Objectivity In Diagnosing Autism and Asperger
from "Autism diagnosis and hyper-systemizing parents: Nottingham vs. Eindhoven"
How Humans Remember So Many Faces: Face Space Model?
from "The Intriguing Case of Chuck Close"
IQ and Height
from "Fashionable bipedalism"
The Failure Rate of Scientific Breakthrough Research
from "The Manhattan Project Considered as a Fluke"
IQ and Expertise Capacity
from "@harpersnotes"
The Ugly Side Of Scientific Breakthroughs
from "The Manhattan Project Considered as a Fluke"
Brain Growth, Cortical Columns, IQ And An Unknown Enhancement Of Mental Capacity?
from "The eternal infant"
Thinking Conceptually Versus Thinking In Abstract Mathematical Symbols
from "But It Worked in the Computer Simulation!"
The Learning Brain Gets Bigger, Then Smaller
from "The Learning Brain Gets Bigger--Then Smaller"
Spandrels and Psychology
from "How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like"
In The Fossil Record, A Species Is A Hypothesis
from "Why didn't they let Kenyanthropus save them?"
Researcher Can't Find Men Who Have Not Seen Porn
from "Researcher Can't Find Men Who Have Not Seen Porn"
Moral Fashions
from "What You Can't Say"
Modal Morality?
from "The Moral Instinct"
Objective Moral Truths?
from "The Moral Instinct"
Steven Pinker on Will Smith and Hitler
from "The Moral Instinct"
The Golden Rule and Moral Psychology
from "The Moral Instinct"
Selfish Gene and Morality
from "The Moral Instinct"
Genes for Morality?
from "The Moral Instinct"
Genetic Link Between Reptile And Human Heart Evolution
from "First Genetic Link Between Reptile And Human Heart Evolution Found"
Finland, The Baltic and Testosterone
from "Re: Where the Sexy Ones Are"
Unselfish Altruism in Nature
from "Acting for the survival of the species (a falsehood)"
Altruism in Nature
from "Acting for the survival of the species (a falsehood)"
Wolves, Dogs and Neoteny
from "The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution"
Tame Silver Fox
from "The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution"
Will Smith on Adolf Hitler
from "Will Smith Explains Hitler Quote"
DNA "Evidence" Can Be Faked
from "DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show"