2008-06-19 21:46
Ever wonder why you cling to your “stuff” so tightly? The “endowment effect” states that we all tend to prefer the items we own when compared to similar items that we… Read More
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2008-05-16 01:33
Things feel fair or unfair. Our emotions play a central role in our perceptions of fairness and how we respond to injustice. fMRI imaging studies of individuals making decisions involving… Read More
2008-05-02 02:05
An interesting link on the nature, expression and fostering of altruism and related is www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org. Per its mission statement –
The unique mission of the Institute f… Read More
2008-04-21 01:05
Fairness is a feeling. Something feels fair or unfair at a fundamental level. It’s only later that we tend to think it through. That is somewhat the gist of yesterday… Read More
2008-04-19 23:04
If I am treated fairly I tend to feel good. It’s a proportional situation rather than something so hard and fast as a particular amount. Given the situation in which I find… Read More
2008-04-15 00:54
The debate around free will ebbs and flows with each new study. We certainly like to think that we have the ability to freely make and follow the decisions that we make. Most of… Read More
2008-04-01 17:48
Why do we behave? Janneke Joly, Ph.D., the University of Groningen, suggests that we are prompted by others to do so and that we do it under three distinct influences – … Read More
2008-03-15 22:33
An interesting book review highlights the relationship between experience and brain chemistry among its other items. On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail suggests that on… Read More
2008-03-14 14:44
Take six jazz musicians and put them in MRI scanners. Add special plastic keyboards so that they can jam together (itself a feat in these confines) and see what happens. When thi… Read More
2008-03-05 17:35
A very small and experimental study among adolescents in Australia suggests that the size of the amygdala plays a part in the expression of anger – at least among teenagers (which sugg… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Have moved to the brevity of Twitter for a bit until time constraints improve. You can catch at @run810 for now Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
But monitoring the site only for the moment. Am busy completing a contracted book project which will be followed by creation of an exhibition around it. Will check in and out, bu… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Been a crazy summer and not enough time. But the blog has stayed niggling away at the back of my mind behind all the pressing clutter, so stay tuned. I’ve not gone away. … Read More
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