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M. C Mykel's List: Irrationality
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Mar 05, 09
Review of a book on irrationality called Perfectly Irrational. Review by a Susan Weinschenk who has a book coming out called Neuro Web Design.
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Dec 26, 08
Robert Sopolsky biologist on Toxo, parasites and Baboons human and animal behavior. Stress and dopamine and totally fascinating.
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DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF: The greatest danger of this compromised and arbitrary "scientific-style" approach to economics is that it implies an equivalence of the economy with nature. The sense is that the economy is really an ecology in which the laws of physics and nature actually apply. Sure they apply, but only as much as they apply to any utterly synthetic and manufactured environment. ...
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May 11, 10
Lots of good questios about why and how we catagorize. Uses Tea Party people as example but goes beyond that.
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Oct 22, 10
Rather, such variables as genetic predisposition, parental predilection, sibling influence, peer pressure, educational experience and life impressions all shape the personality preferences that, in conjunction with numerous social and cultural influences, lead us to our beliefs. We then sort through the body of data and select those that most confirm what we already believe, and ignore or rationalize away those that do not.
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Mar 26, 11
Wikipedia page on Behavioral Economics
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Jun 28, 11
Thinking without Thinking. by Malcomb Cauldwell?
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a 2005 book by Malcolm Gladwell. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious; mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information. It considers both the strengths of the adaptive unconscious, for example in expert judgment, and its pitfalls such as stereotypes.
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Jun 28, 11
The risk for anxiety disorders is 21% higher for urbanites, who also have a 39% increase for mood disorders.
Urban stress causes crazyness.-
In response to these stresses, the amygdala and cingulate cortex – areas of the brain involved in processing emotions – were more active in students who lived or were brought up in cities.
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- The bigger the city they currently live in, the more amygdala activity exhibited during social stress.
- The more time they spent in a city as a child, the more the cingulate cortex races.
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