The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
I spent this last summer rolling across America in a pickup driven by my unflappable hubby Phil, who I met twenty-five years ago at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. (This means I can’t resist quipping that I had to go to the end of the earth to meet that man.) Obviously, Phil is an adventuresome type, always game (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
A friend of mine calls them "The Toothpaste Tube Wars." In some households, it's the "Battle of the Toilet Seat" or the "Why-on-Earth-Do-You-Load-the-Dishwasher-Like-That Police Action." They start with a small skirmish over something minor, and quickly escalate into a heated battle.Over. And. Over. Again.We can get so caug (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
A neurological disorder that affects men as much as four times as much as women, Tourette's syndrome causes patients to have uncontrollable, involuntary tics and movements. These can sometimes manifest as uncontrolled shouts or vocalization. (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder, is a condition wherein a person's identity is fragmented into two or more distinct personalities. Sufferers of this rare condition are usually victims of severe abuse. (Read More)
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(Cell Press) According to a new review of neuroscientific research, coercive interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration to extract information from terrorist suspects are likely to have been unsuccessful and may have had many unintended negative effects on the suspect's memory and brain functions. (Read More)
The Scientific Fundamentalist - Psychology Today Blogs:
In an earlier post, I discuss Finkel and Eastwick's fascinating finding that, under some circumstances, women can be just as indiscriminate in mate choice as men are, and, in the followup post, suggest one possible evolutionary psychological explanation for it by my colleague. Now a very insightful reader offers another po (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
Women today behave very much more like men than their grandmothers. After all, they attend college to compete in careers (rather than to find a husband). They are interested in sex. They drink alcohol and do drugs. They are active in competitive sports, including as professionals.Social scientists often attribute such profo (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
In my last post, I pointed out that testosterone fuels the reckless sexual and aggressive behavior of young men and other male vertebrates. Recent research is closing in on sex hormones (androgens as well as estrogens) playing a very similar role for women.The female hormone estradiol (a key estrogen) plays a role in domina (Read More)
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The Scientific Fundamentalist - Psychology Today Blogs:
I like the Back to the Future trilogy for many reasons. Along with Jaws II and Die Hard II, Back to the Future II and III are among the very few sequels that are as good as or even better than the original. And unlike Jurassic Park III or The Core, the Back to the Future storyline is also scientifically credible. Once yo (Read More)
The Human Beast - Psychology Today Blogs:
Scientific discovery has a way of shattering our preconceptions whether we are scientists or not. That is certainly true of homosexuality. Biologists, who long ago concluded that homosexuality could not have been favored by natural selection are being forced to revise their views from two perspectives: evidence of gay genes (Read More)