The Neuropolitics of Hillary: Stay at home moms penalize successful women
Thursday, March 6th, 2008[I'm reposting this post from 01.26.08 in view of the democratic elections - see what you think - Swivelchair]
One of my litmus tests for people is to see how they react to Senator Clinton: if there is irrational hostility and negative attributional bias (not based on any knowledge of the substance of her positions), I [...]
A Few of My Favorite Things - Select Posts from Research Blogging Members
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Raindrops on Roses by leobaby 727 on Flickr
Some selected posts from others in Research Blogging that I found of particular interest (thank you fellow bloggers):
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If men did equal housework employers wouldn’t have this problem.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Professor Henry Higgins:
Noted Wonderer of “Why Can’t A Woman Be More Like A Man?”Whereas the More Economically Efficient Question Would Be “Why Can’t A Man Be More Like A Woman?”
Selmi, M.L. (2008). The Work-Family Conflict: An Essay on Employers, Men and Responsibility. University of St. Thomas Law Journal, 1(1), 1-24.
SSRN suggested citation: Selmi, [...]
Failure to enforce domestic violence restraining order may be a human rights violation
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008Superbowl Sunday has a bad reputation, true or not, for being one of the busiest days for people who practice domestic violence. Domestic violence — and any violence — scars not only the direct victims, but also the witnesses. That would be children watching from the stairs. Or shot in the head by the perpetrator spouse to get even with the target spouse.
E harmony is so wrong on so many levels where do I start
Thursday, January 31st, 2008I think internet dating can be terrific (read this, though), but the whole thing about personality testing — like human resources personality testing — is just wrong.
Findings: Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love
By JOHN TIERNEY
NYT Published: January 29, 2008
As online matchmakers compete for customers using algorithms in the search for love, the battle [...]
Superbowl Sunday: Why do men kill their wives?
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008Superbowl Sunday coming up — so I’m focusing on domestic violence. (There is no rigorous study that domestic violence increases after the Superbowl).
“ Suspected, convicted and charged”, graphic from Boston Globe, 07.22.07 ( Keith O’brian, “Why do men kill their wives?”visited 01.28.08)
Domestic violence has always been implicitly given a “diminished capacity” sort of [...]
The Neuropolitics of women: Stay at home moms penalize successful women
Saturday, January 26th, 2008One of my litmus tests for people is to see how they react to Senator Clinton: if there is irrational hostility and negative attributional bias (not based on any knowledge of the substance of her positions), I figure that person has a whole bunch of hostility somewhere, and tend to avoid them. And I’m [...]
Power trips powered by dopamine
Monday, January 21st, 2008The rewarding effect of aggression is reduced by nucleus accumbens dopamine receptor antagonism in mice.Couppis MH, Kennedy CH.Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2008 Jan 8 [Epub ahead of print]
I sat next to someone the other day wearing a t-shirt that said:
Of course, I had to sit and do the full analysis of that one for a while. I [...]
Reasons why not to marry your cousin
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Scene from “Arrested Development,” episode, “Fakin’ It”, George Michael (Michael Cera, L) and Maeby (Alia Shawkat, R) participate in a mock wedding to entertain Alzheimer’s patients
Human fertility increases the further away your mate’s hometown. Labouriau, Rodrigo, Amorim, Antonio, “Human Fertility Increases With Marital Radius,” Genetics 2008 178: 601-603
Marry a foreigner. A stranger. [...]
Neuropolitics: Campaign advice for Hillary Clinton and Fred Thompson
Monday, November 12th, 2007
The Clinton Neurons, Quian Quiroga et al., “Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain,” Nature 435: 1102-1107 (2005)
Neurodemocracy, you gotta love it. Branding, celebrity and politics — all evoke neurological responses in primitive brain areas. How can the candidates best position themselves to have the best neurological response in swing [...]