Monday, February 27, 2023

Pigeons can helps us model gambling behavior; they too choose suboptimally, especially when they are hungry or isolated

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An Animal Model of Human Gambling Behavior. Thomas R. Zentall. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, February 26 2023, 100101. https://do...

The belief in repressed memories of trauma (and multiple personality syndrome) has become a zombie idea, so seductive that it lives on despite long since being discredited

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The Memory Wars Then and Now: The Contributions of Scott O. Lilienfeld. Steven Jay Lynn, Richard J. McNally, and Elizabeth F. Loftus. Clinic...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Black-White Differences in Parental Happiness

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Black-White Differences in Parental Happiness. Jennifer Augustine, Mia Brantley. Socius, February 23, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231...

Miscitation in Psychology: About 19% of citing claims either failed to include important nuances of results (9.3%) or completely mischaracterized findings from prior research altogether (9.5%)

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Cobb, C. L., Crumly, B., Montero-Zamora, P., Schwartz, S. J., & Martínez, C. R., Jr. (2023). The problem of miscitation in psychological...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

The human appetite for recreational drugs could be a heritage of the Stone Age switch to a meat-based diet and the need to protect an ever-expanding brain from zoonotic infections

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Homo medicus: The transition to meat eating increased pathogen pressure and the use of pharmacological plants in Homo. Edward H. Hagen, Aaro...