The Facebook science experiment
A slightly different angle.
The Facebook science experiment
A slightly different angle.
What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?
Alice Dreger is a professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Altered gray matter – cannabis and teens
This article describes a recent study on the neural effects of casual cannabis use among young adults.
What accent is your facial expression?
Really interesting article on cultural information that is transmitted via our physical – non verbal – cues. Your ‘non verbal accent’. Love this intersection of SOC & PSY!
“People can judge cultural background through nonverbal accents, just as they can judge the geographic backgrounds of people speaking a common language — for example, a Texan versus a Scot — through verbal accents.”
“physiological underpinnings of political ideology”
The genetic basis for the differences in the way people think…which leads to differences in such things as political affiliation. We don’t so much think a certain way because we have a particular political affiliation, rather, we have a particular political affiliation because we think a certain way…and…that thinking is not just a matter of socialization.
Love this article – it’s the intersection of psychology, neurology, sociology, and political science…almost all of my favorite things!
Didn’t do your math homework? Blame it on genetics
Apparently it’s more than just learning to fear math…
Gender reveal party more aptly titled “genital reveal party”?
Interesting article by by Elizabeth Meyer, Ph.D. on the socialization of gender.
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