The Evolution of the God GeneSource: The New York Times
IN the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, the archaeologists Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery have gained a remarkable insight into the origin of religion.
Is your therapist a little behind the times?Source: The Washington Post
For at least 2,000-years, medicine was locked in a struggle between those who viewed it as an art and those who saw it as a science.
Until the last century, most medical practitioners were guided by intuition and tradition, not by science.
Bad Decisions May Be ContagiousSource: Science: Current Issue
Like the flu, a person's emotional state can be contagious. Watch someone cry, and you'll likely feel sad; think about the elderly, and you'll tend to walk slower. Now a study suggests that we can also catch someone else's irrational thought processes.

Over the past couple decades this great nation and the world has seen the taken of age of epoch of the internet with a plethora of avenues and means for livilyhood and communication.We have seen economic collapse of all including morals and the inevitable destruction of society …
Pig Cognition Studies...Parallels With HumansSource: The New York Times
In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.
How did the present get erased from our existential psyche?Source: Ben Atlas
Paul Carr writes in Techcrunch – After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth. Paul describes that during the Fort Hood news blackout, Twitter updates contributed to the disinformation.
Babies with an accentSource: EurekAlert!
In the first days of their lives, French infants already cry in a different way to German babies.
Helicopter Parenting Wrong for All Cultures Source: Psych Central
Parenting is an incredibly rewarding albeit frequently challenging experience.
Unfortunately issues from 'over-parenting' — where parents dominate their children's life with the meddling often extending into adolescence and continuing until college entry — transcend ge …
Thinking negatively can boost your memorySource: Yahoo! News
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad make people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.
Scientifically Haunted House Suggests You're a Sucker Source: Wired News
To test whether it's possible to artificially induce paranormal experiences — or, from a different perspective, to technologically summon a spirit — researchers at London's Goldsmith College and architect Usman Haque designed a scientifically haunted room.
Bad mood can boost memory Source: Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE
SYDNEY - BAD moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad make people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

Over the years much has been said concerning movies,television, the media in general and violence, while it has been brought to light that these things could possibly affect the workings of a so called healthy brain.First let us concider everyone has a healthy brain,nervous sys …
How to be HappySource: Psychology Today
An evolutionary look at the road to happiness.

There are many archetypes for the father figure. The most disturbing one is probably the domineering task master whose "love" comes at a cost that can never be paid.
Stanford Study Explains Internet TrollsSource: io9.com
In a study conducted at Stanford, psychologists discovered that people who hold extreme opinions are more likely to voice them loudly than those who hold moderate opinions. At last, science has explained most of what you read on the internet.
Confronting Bad Behavior: Is There A Social Payoff?Source: Science Daily
Suppose you are at a busy playground and you hear an 11-year-old using language he didn't learn on Sesame Street. There are plenty of other adults around, but, apparently, not this child's parents. Do you intervene? Does anyone?
Psychopaths are distracted, not cold-blooded Source:
AN ATTENTION deficit, rather than an inability to feel emotion, may be what makes psychopathic individuals seem fearless. It's a finding that challenges the common characterisation of such people as cold-blooded predators.

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