Tag: Mind and Psychology

Articles in science & nature tagged with mind-and-psychology

Marco Ramos

Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head

Decades of biological research haven’t improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

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John Summers

The Shocking School

The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?

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Greg Eghigian

UFOs and the Boundaries of Science

This summer, an intelligence report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither is likely to change many minds.

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Merve Emre Deborah Chasman

Who’s Got Personality?

The Myers-Briggs Bias: An Interview with Merve Emre

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David Auerbach

Programming My Child

Through the experience of parenting his daughter, a software developer came to see Google and Facebook as the first digital children. 

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F. M. Kamm

Talking about Death

What constitutes a good death? On end-of-life care and assisted suicide.

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Claude S. Fischer

The Neighborhood Effect

A bad environment can worsen the life chances not only of a child, but that of the child’s child.

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Claude S. Fischer

Do Ideas Matter?

Do they affect individuals and societies more or less than do material circumstances such as economic incentives, physical constraints, and military force?

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Claude S. Fischer

The Flip Side of Individualism

How egoism can also lead to self-defeating self-blame.

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Anne Fausto-Sterling

Of Maggots and Brain Scans

Brain images are ubiquitous and compelling, but the science behind them is not.

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