Gravlee et al: Race, Genetics, Social Inequality, and Health
Clarence Gravlee, Amy Non and Connie Mulligan have just published an outstanding article in PLoS ONE, Genetic Ancestry, Social Classification, and Racial Inequalities in Blood Pressure in Southeastern...
View ArticleCatching Happiness: Christakis and Fowler and the Social Contagion of Behaviors
“Is Happiness Catching?” is the feature article in this week’s New York Times Magazine. Clive Thompson writes about the Framingham Heart Study, which has followed 15,000 people starting back in 1948....
View ArticleThe Encultured Brain: Why Neuroanthropology? Why Now?
Why Neuroanthropology? Why Now? By Greg Downey and Daniel Lende Neuroanthropology places the brain and nervous system at the center of discussions about human nature, recognizing that much of what...
View ArticleExporting American mental illness
The New York Times Magazine has a great discussion of the effects of the exportation of American ideas about mental illness, titled appropriately, The Americanization of Mental Illness by Ethan...
View ArticlePsychopathy: Is It In You?
By Kevin Brandenberg & J.P. Malette When one considers crime and its relationship to society, psychopathic behavior remains one of the most mysterious and intriguing conditions of the human mind....
View ArticleProceedings from ASCS 09 Conference online
The Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science, held in Sydney last year, are now online for anyone to access. Thanks to the editors, Wayne Christensen,...
View ArticleWe agree it’s WEIRD, but is it WEIRD enough?
The most recent edition of Behavioral and Brain Sciences carries a remarkable review article by Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan, ‘The weirdest people in the world?’ The article...
View ArticleDeath Becomes Us
In Do the Right Thing, Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, highlights new research that “our decisions kill us.” He draws on the work of Ralph Keeney, whose paper (pdf) Personal Decisions Are...
View ArticleCarol Worthman: From Human Development to Habits of the Heart
Carol Worthman, a mentor of mine at Emory University and a real leader in doing neuroanthropological research (even if she might call it “biocultural”), has two recent articles out that I really want...
View ArticleYour Great x 2360 Grandpa was a Neanderthal!
Is your Dad the descendent of a Neanderthal? Visit our PLoS website to find out more. Recent evidence has shown that a small percentage of human DNA is Neanderthal. This Neanderthal DNA entered the...
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