October 06, 2006
2006-10-06 Spike activity:
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
ABC Radio's All in the Mind tackles the mind-body problem in an engaging debate.
Wired Magazine with an appallingly-titled article on the neuropsychology of pathopaths: 'Psychos Need a Little Sympathy'.
On the irony! US Government funded study concludes that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
The 'BBC Prison study', a re-run of Milgram's Zimbardo's famous Stanford Prison experiment (doh! thanks Pedro), is written up in The Psychologist: Tyranny revisited.
Developing Intelligence looks at the nature / nurture interaction in language learning theories.
The New York Times has an article on 'compulsive shopping disorder'.
There is a God: curry may be neuroprotective - reports The Neurophilosopher.
