The Ignorance of Voters – “Why does more education lead to less accurate beliefs? The answer returns us to the difference between rational voters (what we think we are) and rationalizing voters (what we really are). It turns out that the human mind is a marvelous information filter, adept at blocking out those facts that contradict what we’d like to believe.”
Single Out-of-Africa origin of humans: more trouble for the theory – from dienekes
Our own status affects the way our brains respond to others – “People of higher subjective socioeconomic status show greater brain activity in response to other high-ranked individuals, while those with lower status have a greater response to other low-status individuals.”
Code rage: The “warrior gene” makes me mad! (Whether I have it or not) – behavioral genetics on dr. phil! whoa.
Predictors of closeness to whites among whites – from inductivist: “What predicts greater closeness to whites is: being female, being younger, having more income, being less intelligent, and more church attendance.”
Animals have personalities, too – duh.
Alcohol, Mood and Me (Not You) – “Adolescents with behavioral problems drink more in general, irrespective of mood, but only adolescents without behavioral problems drink more often when feeling depressed.”
Prejudice and the president – white people are soooo waaaaaaycist
The Rewards of Doing “Something” – “People don’t really care what they’re doing — just as long as they are doing something.”
Like father (country), like son – from the audacious
Monkeys, too, can recollect what they’ve seen – “The researchers say that the ability of rhesus monkeys to recall what they’ve seen in the past suggests that the ability to recollect does not depend on language and may have been present in our common ancestor 30 million years ago.”
Fat, race and vitamin D – @diversity is chaos
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