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Posts published in February 2021

Virtual Body Swapping?

This is a whole new level of walking in someone else’s shoes! Virtual Body Swapping With Friend Can Alter Your Sense of Self https://psychcentral.com/news/2020/08/31/virtual-body-swapping-with-friend-can-alter-your-sense-of-self?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned&utm_content=2021-02-24#1 Source: macmillan…

How Children's Amazing Brains Shaped Humanity

Have a few minutes? Listen to this APA podcast episode discussing why human infants have such long periods of growth and what this means for…

Privacy and Technology

Can privacy coexist with technology that reads and changes brain activity? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/technology-brain-activity-read-change-thoughts-privacy-ethics Source: macmillan psych community

Reading research articles: An assignment

At some point in college or grad school, I was given a short article that explained the different sections of a typical psychology journal article.…

How Have Your Friendships Been Affected By COVID?

While close friendships may never change, this article argues that our casual friendships have been seriously challenged – if not completely erased – by the…

Are you as happy to be wrong as Danny Kahneman is?

I just finished reading Evan Nesterak’s Behavioral Scientist interview with Wharton organizational psychologist Adam Grant about his new book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing…