Wilhelm Wundt's Warning About Reities
I coined the word "reity" to refer to the modern social science propensity for coining abstract nouns to
Social Science
On Cargo Cult Science
South Pacific Islanders after WWII built replicas of airport objects in hopes that cargo planes would land and deliver goods again. But the planes did not land.
Paranoid Story Listening
When listening to an ambiguous social narrative, paranoids had higher activation in left TPOJ1, left TGd, and right 9mdp.
Does the ventral striatum cause BPD patients to actually enjoy being insulted?
Does neuroscience say BPD patients unconsciously enjoy being insulted? The problems with the ventral striatum-reward center paradigm.
The Justice of Theseus: Right IFSa
While right IFSa (Theseus) is usually involved in deciding to administer third-party punishment, in the present study it showed up in restraining punishment of the unfair player.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is a Statistical Artifact
No mindless robot can get less than zero or more than 100 "correct" answers. However, those robots at the top or bottom of the performance distribution will under- or over-estimate their performance simply because of the cutoff at 100% and 0%, respectively!
The Medium Is the Message
While I do not uncritically endorse everything Marshall McLuhan claimed, there are certain quotes that ironically resonate with neuromythography.
The Neural Correlates of ‘Women Empathize, Men Systematize’
The current neuromemex contains more than 225 human and animal studies demonstrating neural sexual dimorphisms, none of which are uncorrected for the larger average brain and body size of men.
Scorched Earth Eliminative Materialism
Eliminative materialism suggests that we should abandon the language of mental states entirely in favor of a vocabulary that better captures the underlying physical processes in the brain. -Patricia Churchland
Urbanization, p32d, and Some Guy Named Norm
It turns out that a neural correlate of urban living is a thicker brain area p32d.
Neuromythography: A Rationalist Prophecy?
Everybody wants a creation myth of evolution.
