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• in Technology
  Think Deeper About Using Colors on the Web - A Fruitful Explanation
  Evolutionary look at why we may prefer colorful web designs over those in black and white.
  by cbcaliff / on Sep 29, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “evolutionary psychology”

 

• Who Am I?

  
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  Unlike the relatively stable genome, the menome is always changing. read more
  1 week ago

• Sexual Wiring of Womens Breasts

  
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  If men have sex on the brain, they are not alone. Recent research found that women’s sensory cortex has three distinct areas corresponding to stimulation of the clitoris, vagina, and cervix (1). To their surprise, researchers found that self stimulation of the nipples lights up the same areas. This sheds further ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Arrogance of Prayer

  
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  What’s at stake in the science/religion is as practical as the difference between having a thousand dollars in the bank or a billion, or between having no connections or ear of the most power leaders on earth—indeed more powerful: Can God Override nature on your behalf? Here we explore how we can, do, and should ...
  2 weeks ago

• Evolutionary Psychology, Proximate Causation, & Ultimate Causation

  
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  Evolutionary psychology has always been somewhat controversial in the media for reasons that generally confuse me (Wikipedia has a nice rundown of the usual complaints ). For instance, the good folks at Slate are particularly hostile ( here , here and here ), which is odd because they are also generally hostile ...
  2 weeks ago

• Basketball, Fraud, and the Broken University Incentive System

  
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  So, in 2005, Nature published a study by a group of researchers at Rutgers University showing that Jamaican teenagers who exhibited a high degree of body symmetry were judged (by other teenagers) to be better dancers than those with less symmetrical bodies. The study was an exploration of the idea that physical ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bill Gates and Better Condoms: Error 404?

  
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  A new condom could boost penile sensation, but the majority of todays safe-sex challenge may well lie in the software of the brain. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Move over, Pop Ev Psych, you may have a new bedfellow

  
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  The "replication" phenomena in social psychology, and first cousin behavioral psychology, depending on your phrase of choice, is getting to be bigger and bigger. The latest problem, or casualty? Research claiming to have demonstrated the priming effect . Nearly as big a problem? The way supporters claim theres no ...
  2 weeks ago

• Highlights: April 28-May 4

  
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  [IMG: http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/collections/2013/04/123634-122145.jpg?1367841348]
  2 weeks ago

• Where Your Personality Comes From

  
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  Freud suggested that personality traits, like symptoms of mental illness, are about the management of unconscious conflicts. In my new ebook, The Reiss Motivation Profile, I show that personality traits are really about the management of experiences with universally reinforcing stimuli. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Fifty Shades of Penis Size

  
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  Do women want a big one? Not according to Fifty Shades of Gray. read more
  3 weeks ago

• The Most Basic Freedom Is Freedom to Quit

  
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  Freedom to quit is essential to peaceful societies, happy marriages, and satisfying employment. It could also turn schools into places where children learn joyfully. read more
  3 weeks ago

• From Matter to Mattering: The Origin of Lifes Meaning

  
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  Contrary to popular scientific opinion, information isnt just physical changes. Information means something to someone. Heres a theory about how meaning and someones originated in a universe that didnt start with any, an explanation for how the matter of physics and chemistry could ever become the mattering you ...
  3 weeks ago

• Changing perspectives on the history of violence

  
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  One shouldnt, perhaps, take such things too seriously, but I was interested to see the results of Prospect magazines World Thinkers list last week. More specifically, I was pleased to find a few of my own favourite authors placing highly and equally glad to have some potential new favourites brought to my ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scientists Are Wrong About the Meaning of Life

  
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  There is no God, and from what we can tell nothing means anything to the universe. Still, that doesnt mean that your life is meaningless. Scientists today treat all behavior as things bumping into things and changing them. Here we expose popular scientific misconceptions about what information is and point toward a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Being Nice Doesnt Always Work Out

  
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  In an earlier post, I argued that nature is not really red in tooth and claw. Most animals spend far more time cooperating than they do tearing each other apart. Yet, there are settings in which being nice can be a losing proposition. A gangster who cares about other people’s feelings might as well shoot himself – ...
  3 weeks ago

• Have We Evolved To Be Nasty Or Nice?

  
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  Most evolutionists now accept that kindness might be just as ancient and innate as selfishness. But its also clearly conditional: People tend to cooperate with relatives and frequently encountered acquaintances, not indiscriminately.  It is futile to ask whether people are naturally cooperative or selfish. They can ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Big Why of Boston Bombings

  
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  The big question on everyone’s mind is motive. Why would two accomplished young men launch horrifying sadistic attacks on civilians in a city that had provided them a safe haven from war? As athletes, why target an athletic event? Why attack the Boston Marathon, a symbol of international friendship in a city that ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Love Paradox

  
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  The love paradox in current society arises from a combination of the following two seemingly opposing claims: (a) a greater percentage of intimate relationships are based on love; (b) a greater percentage of intimate relationships involve romantic compromises. Since romantic compromises are considered to run counter ...
  4 weeks ago

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