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Mind and Brain

“Brain as a Computer” Metaphor Rebooted
June 3, 2026
...forced to borrow heavily from phenomenological psychology. They speak of “embodied information” and “virtual action” – describing a brain that does not abstractly categorize objects, but rather perceives a world...
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Health

Family Wellbeing Enhanced by Biblical Standards
May 22, 2026
...A Comprehensive Review of Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors, (V. C. Megha and N. Annalakshmi, Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, 2026 March). The authors found that: “Studies showed an increased...
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Mammals

A Bonobo “Tea Party”
February 18, 2026
Once again in the popular science press, the data are modest, but the headlines … are pure evolutionary IMAGINATION “Imagination,” or Just Apeing Humans? by John D. Wise, PhD Headlines...
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Human Body

Our Multiple Senses Cooperate
February 17, 2026
...sounds is often used for dramatic effects. However, studies in psychology and cognitive science demonstrate that people across diverse languages and cultures consistently associate brighter stimuli with higher-pitched sounds and...
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Mind and Brain

Eternity in Their Near-Death Experiences
October 3, 2025
As reports rise, scientists are taking NDE’s more seriously. But is it a scientific question?   Doctors and scientists have no doubt that people with near-death experiences (NDEs), who recover...
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Philosophy of Science

Statistical Significance: An Abused Standard
August 8, 2025
...superfood (2020), condemned as cancer-linked (2022), exonerated from diabetes risk (2018), and then accused of causing it again (2020). These contradictions aren’t confined to breakfast. Across medicine, biology, psychology, and...
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Education

Evolutionary Psychology Fails; Biblical Parenting Is Best
August 5, 2025
Drawing lessons from Jamaican and global social science research, we explore the value of parental investment, contrasting conventional paradigms in evolutionary psychology   Evolutionary Psychology Gets It Wrong: How the...
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Politics and Ethics

Did Fundamentalists Lose at the Scopes Trial?
July 21, 2025
Did fundamentalists win the trial but lose in the court of public opinion?   Editor Note: Today marks 100 years since the end of the Scopes Trial, when John T....
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Politics and Ethics

Scientism Fails Counseling 101
February 24, 2025
...in life and understanding about godliness far longer than human “psychology” has existed. Who should an honest seeker follow? the opinions of mortals who weren’t there at the beginning and...
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Media

Archive: Fall Colors, Goby Fish, Virus Motor, Planets, Hiking, St Luke, More
October 19, 2024
...in the Journal of Experimental Psychology performed experiments in which, after thousands of tries, baboons were able to associate like things with rewards. Big deal. I had a horse once...
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Mind and Brain

Beware of Mindfulness
July 23, 2024
...health problems worse (The Conversation, 19 July 2024). Miguel Farias is an associate professor of clinical psychology at Coventry University near London, UK. There has been a surge of interest...
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Mind and Brain

Evolutionary Psychology Refutes Itself
July 11, 2024
...of us will ever be. Peter W. Halligan is an honorary professor of neuropsychology at Cardiff University. David A. Oakley is an emeritus professor of psychology at University College London...
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Early Man

How to Be a Sapiens, Not Just a Homo
June 10, 2024
...2024, The Conversation). Darwin Party psychology guru Jose Yong says we hominids are in a bind. Our brains didn’t evolve to be changing so quickly. Notice how he compares us...
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Media

Archive: Ape Archaeology, Cat Psychology, Old DNA, and a Bridge
May 24, 2024
...what it wants, claims Nicholas Nicastro, a graduate student in evolutionary psychology at Cornell University. The BBC News reports that Nicastro played 100 different recorded cat calls to a group...
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Media

Archive: Wood, Gratitude, and Space Aliens
March 22, 2024
These stories from 2003 are still fun to read after 21 years. Note: some links may no longer work. How a Plant Would Evolve Wood if It Could 03/25/2003 Lignin...
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