Tag: psychology
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January 16, 2009
Free Market Madness Hits Stores On Inauguration Day
A few of us here at bioethics.net were recently informed that something very important is happening on January 20th. Anyone know what?…
December 30, 2008
Is A New DSM Written in Secret Necessarily Unethical?
Sarah Rubenstein from the Wall Street Journal Health Blog has explained that there is a concerning development regarding the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: it’s being written in secret.…
December 10, 2008
Feeling Lonely? Blame Your Genes!
According to a recent study reported on CNN, part of the reason you may be feeling lonely this holiday season could be due to your family–but not because they left you high and dry at the holidays or because they ditched you for other relatives.…
February 1, 2008
Do nerds have a different sense of empathy?
The WHO reported today that anti-malaria efforts in Rwanda and Ethiopia have cut the number of deaths from the disease in half.…
January 14, 2008
Steven Pinker on "The Moral Instinct"
Yesterday’s NYT Mag included an article by Steven Pinker about the science of morality:
… Illusions are a favorite tool of perception scientists for exposing the workings of the five senses, and of philosophers for shaking people out of the nave belief that our minds give us a transparent window onto the world (since if our eyes can be fooled by an illusion, why should we trust them at other times?).
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September 21, 2007
Evolution and morality, continued
Olivia Judson, an evolutionary biologist and science writer, has a piece in The Atlantic this month about evolution and altruism.…
September 18, 2007
Evolution and morality
Today’s Science Times includes an interesting article about Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist who studies morality. He hypothesizes that our brains have evolved two levels of morality:
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August 19, 2007
APA: Members shouldn't be involved with abusive interrogation
Via the Washington Post comes word that the American Psychological Association ruled Sunday that its members can no longer be associated with many of the “alternative” interrogation techniques in use at US facilities around the world.…