This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Caffeine boost — … Though some folk choose to roast, brew and drink coffee, innovative scientists use the bean and its byproducts to make cosmetics. Fernanda Maria Pinto Vilela and her colleagues at Brazil’s Federal University of […]
Here is an essay for use by evolutionary psychologists. Written by Alice Shirell Kaswell, its title is “Maybe—Evolutionary Psychology.” Maybe—Evolutionary Psychology by Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Improbable Research staff Maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe? Maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe […]
Amanda Hess pays tribute, in Slate, to certain researchers [pictured here] and their research. Her tribute begins thus: College Men and Women Express Different Sexual Regrets. Could Cave People Be to Blame? In a new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, a team of evolutionary psychologists queried 200 American college students on their greatest romantic and […]
Simple explanations simply don’t cut it, sometimes for some people. Especially for some professional psychologists. This essay explores that strange fact: “Clever Animals and Killjoy Explanations in Comparative Psychology,” Sara J. Shettleworth, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 14, no. 11, November 2010, pp. 477-81. The author, at the University of Toronto, explains: From the process […]