March 04, 2005
2005-03-04 Spike activity:
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Judges are likely to rate people who perform last in a competition more highly, regardless of their ability.
Boston authorities are investigating an ex-stripper to see if she has been pretending to be a psychologist.
An excellent article on the burgeoning field of 'neurotheology' - V.S. Ramachandran's experiments on religion and temporal lobe epilepsy suggests they people with the condition may react more strongly to religious concepts.
Members of Mensa are to be DNA tested to study the link between high intelligence and dementia.
Article on Harvard psychologists' studies of people who claim to have been abducted by aliens.
