Neurological Correlates

Ha! AHa! Heh! Thank you, Carl Icahn (from Conde Nast Portfolio): “. . .The theory goes like this: Many college kids seek refuge in their fraternities or clubs (when Icahn tells it, “sorority” is conspicuously omitted) for a friendly face. Without fail, the president of the club, who never seems to open a book, is [...]

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Today’s Wall Street Journal (link and excerpts, after the jump) describes a neuroeconomics study people had to decide between overfeeding some African orphans at the expense of others (i.e., some overfed, some hungry), or taking everyone’s food away so everyone is the same (i.e., all hungry).Turns out most people vote for fairness — even if [...]

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Nature, nurture, nature, nurture. Nature x nurture is really the thing. If you are genetically loaded, and your mother drank while pregnant with you, or had genital herpes while pregnant with you, or if you were abused after you were born, your behavior will be more extreme than if you just had the genes or [...]

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