April 28, 2008
Encephalon 44 wants you!:
The 44th edition of the psychology and neuroscience writing carnival Encephalon has just been released by the ever-excellent Cognitive Daily.
What with the flurry of recent interest in neuroscience studies predicting the imminent death of our concept of free will, this edition has a slyly satirical slant on your ability to resist.
A couple of my favourites include a post by Cognitive Daily on a remarkable study that found that priming students to believe that free will doesn't exist increases levels of cheating (!), and a provocative article from The Mouse Trap on whether God is just the result of humans making a Type I error - i.e. detecting a false positive.
Of course, another alternative is that God is significant but just has a very small effect size. Epicurus is that you?
Link to Encephalon 44.
