Jews Asians Whites and Blacks… I.Q myths and racism.

The “racial intelligence” bulldozer that James Watson set rolling a couple of weeks back is still whirring in our backyards as the new row over superior Jewish IQ scores is begging media attention.
This time the perpetrator is the Bell Curve fame Charles Murray and his American Enterprise Institute. I am not going into [...]

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Sex differences in behaviour not always controlled by sex hormones

Sex differences in cognition and behavior–such as increased aggression in males–are usually thought to involve hormones, which can “masculinize” or “feminize” a brain temporarily or permanently. But now, a mouse study shows that some sex-linked genes don’t need hormones to shape male and female behavior.
 
The Y chromosome in males have been identified to contain the [...]

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Can’t Take My Eyes Off You !

A recently published Florida State University study is pointing at the evolutionary psychology of attractive faces.
The paper, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You: Attentional Adhesion to Mates and Rivals,” by Jon Maner, an assistant professor of psychology at FSU, is one of the first to show how strongly, quickly and automatically we are attuned to [...]

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Déjà vu : Is it your past that is replayed?

The sudden feeling of vague familiarity about certain scenes or things of life is a common phenomenon we might all have experienced one time or the other. Many of them were dream-like experiences, while some were so vivid; we almost thought it was a replay of the past.
The term “déjà vu” is believed to have [...]

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Intelligence : Myths and reality

We have always referred to people with exceptional abilities as “smart”, “clever” or “bright”. By doing so, we unconsciously recognize the existence of a number of different intelligence-subtypes. It has now become a commonsense notion that there exist certain types of intelligence like “arithmetic” intelligence, an “artistic” intelligence, a “commonsense” intelligence, a “cognitive” intelligence, “semantic” [...]

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