Click Here to Read: Skepticism, Experience, and Science by Glenn Ellmers and J. Eric Wise on the American Mind Website.
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Why Do You Keep Dreaming You Forgot Your Pants? It’s Science
Click Here to Read: Why Do You Keep Dreaming You Forgot Your Pants? It’s Science: Where your brain goes when you’re asleep helps you when you’re awake By Alice Robb in The New York Times on November 10, 2018.
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Is There a Science to Psychotherapy? Neuroscience findings suggest that psychotherapy alters the brain
Click Here to Read: Is There a Science to Psychotherapy? Neuroscience findings suggest that psychotherapy alters the brain by Sara Gorman, Ph.D., MPH, and Jack M. Gorman, MD on their Denying to the Grave blog on the Psychology Todays blogs on November 9, 2018.
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What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
Click Here to Read: What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine By Gary Greenberg in The New York Times Magazine on November 7, 2018.
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Your native languages and affects what you can and can’t see
The Biological Roots of Intelligence
Science Confirms It: People Are Not Pets
Click Here to Read: Science Confirms It: People Are Not Pets: Research on the efficacy of rewards tells us that we can’t bribe others into doing what we want By Alfie Kohn in The New York Times on October 27, 2018.
Goats at the zoo of the bois d’Attilly (Seine-et-Marne, France). Photo: Tangopaso. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
