For some reason i had not stumbled upon, or just didnt read, this article before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psychology It sums up the common criticisms. As someone who is very well read in…
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-brazil-prisonreadingl2e8hp75l-20120625,0,7694158.story This is an interesting idea. - http://news.yahoo.com/math-anxiety-school-scientists-too-190128180--abc-news-tech.html http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/22/1205259109 Not surprised. Surely, there is a similar aversion among filosofy students at my university to logic, since its the formal near-equivalent…
I had all these open in my tabs, and decided to share them. I also note that apparently Satoshi Kanazawa was fired from writing at Psychology Today. Reading the…
Why night owls are more intelligent, Personality and Individual Differences 47 (2009) 685–690. Abstract: The origin of values and preferences is an unresolved theoretical problem in social and behavioral sci-…
Since hearing about the five factor model (FFM), i have had an interest in personality psychology. I'm very happy that someone has invented a proper test so that we can…
A friend of mine mentioned this topic to me. He got it from The Young Turks a youtube news commentary channel. The video is shown below: Actually, i normally kinda…
GeneExpression has brought some interesting data to my knowledge. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/05/h-allen-orr-most-influential-evolutionary-biologist-of-all-time/ http://www.epjournal.net/blog/2011/05/are-creationists-more-receptive-to-evolutionary-psychology-2/ It seems that people who reject evolution are more likely to accept claims made by evo psych (even…
http://racialreality.blogspot.com/2010/03/richard-lynn-on-italian-iq.html Apparently sometimes either a sloppy or an intellectually dishonest writer. Check the links about manipulating data, and the cases of choice with samples seems doubtful. Still, there is no…
I think i may have posted about this before, even so it is worth repeating. I want to showcase the extraordinary power of sexual selection on women's behavior using a…
THE ACCURACY OF INFERENCES ABOUT CRIMINALITY But they didnt control for IQ which is strange. They even mention it that one can spot intelligent people: “As far as empirical findings…