Cognitive Psychology
Mind in the Eyes
 (1 vote)Empathy versus systemizing. Simon Baron-Cohen's recent book The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain proposes that "The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems." The book contains a couple of tests that calculate your "empathy quotient" and your "systemizing quotient", here is a web versions of them: |
DualTask.org
Website Devoted to Human Multi-tasking Research |
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BBC - Radio 4 Memory Experience - Homepage
Find out about BBC Radio 4's Memory Experience: try simple tips to improve your memory, take part in our survey of the nation's memories, listen to programmes about memory, understand what memory is |
The Transporters - Home Page 2007
The Transporters is a fun new animation series designed to help children with autism discover the world of emotions. Jane Asher, President of the National Autistic Society, said: "This is such a wonderful initiative. It's going to make a huge difference to some very vulnerable children." |
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BBC - Radio 4 Memory Experience - Homepage
Find out about BBC Radio 4's Memory Experience: try simple tips to improve your memory, take part in our survey of the nation's memories, listen to programmes about memory, understand what memory is |
The Formation of False Memories
For most of this century, experimental psychologists have been interested in how and why memory fails. As Greene2 has aptly noted, memories do not exist in a vacuum. Rather, they continually disrupt each other, through a mechanism that we call "interference." Literally thousands of studies have documented how our memories can be disrupted by things that we experienced earlier (proactive interference) or things that we experienced later (retroactive interference). |
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Anatomy of Disgust
Disgust is a powerful response that protects us from danger but also carries its own dangers. The Channel 4 series, Anatomy of Disgust, explores that response and the uses — positive and negative — to which it can be put. |
The Magical Number Seven
My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer. For seven years this number has followed me around, has intruded in my most private data, and has assaulted me from the pages of our most public journals. This number assumes a variety of disguises, being sometimes a little larger and sometimes a little smaller than usual, but never changing so much as to be unrecognizable. The persistence with which this number plagues me is far more than a random accident. There is, to quote a famous senator, a design behind it, some pattern governing its appearances. Either there really is something unusual about the number or else I am suffering from delusions of persecution. |
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