NPR Launches New Podcast Exploring the ‘Hidden Brain’
This is one of the questions NPR’s Shankar Vedantam takes up in an episode of his new podcast Hidden Brain, set to launch next week on September 22.
September 14th, 2015
the psych report
September 07th, 2015
Show Me the Meaning! A Review of Barry Schwartz’s Why We Work
The television show Mad Men gets much of its insight from holding up a bygone work era to spotlight just how much societal views have changed in a short time and how unenlightened those notions seem today in retrospect.
September 03rd, 2015
How Incentives Hinder Innovation
Imagine you are a CEO intent on increasing your employees’ creativity so that your company can be more innovative.
September 02nd, 2015
Psychology’s Largest Replication Effort Reveals Low Rates of Reproducibility
During the past three years, 270 researchers from around the world recreated 98 psychology studies from three top journals to see if they could produce the same results.
September 01st, 2015
Searching For Suicide: Can Google Predict Suicide?
In graduate school, I had an engineering friend named Steve who proposed that he and I, a psychologist, team up to create a machine to predict the future.
August 18th, 2015
The Emotions That Make Us More Creative
Artists and scientists throughout history have remarked on the bliss that accompanies a sudden creative insight.
August 04th, 2015
Three Ways Behavioral Science Can Help End Poverty
Can behavioral science help end poverty? We think so, and we have a few ideas.
July 29th, 2015
Rethinking Consciousness: A Q&A with Michael Graziano
Most theories of consciousness, says Neuroscientist Michael Graziano, rely on magic. They point to a feature of the brain—vibrating neurons for instance—and claim that feature to be the source of consciousness.
July 10th, 2015
The End of Nature Versus Nurture
How do we become who we are? Traditionally, people’s answers have placed them in one of two camps: nature or nurture. The one says genes determine an individual while the other claims the environment is the linchpin for development.
June 24th, 2015
Google’s Psychedelic Art: This Is Your Computer Brain on Drugs
In the past week, a set of trippy images revealed on Google’s research blog brought the complexity of the human visual system—as simulated by an artificial neural network called GoogLeNet, developed by Google software engineers—to widespread attention.
