Blog

Recent theoretical and empirical work on predictive processing and brain plasticity may help explain both the onset of and ending of Charles Bonnet hallucinations. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

We are more visible than ever, but many people still feel unseen. The difference between attention and recognition may explain why. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Gen X inherited a relationship model built for a different era. Here’s why their struggles were never personal, and what to do about it. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Simply “grinding harder” isn’t grit. It’s a start, but true grit requires something more to make it effective. Here’s why passion is the missing piece that makes all the difference. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Your child may not be refusing food, but may instead be avoiding fear. Explore the connection between anxiety and picky eating. Share this… Linkedin Facebook Twitter

Where the hard edge of physics meets the vulnerable metaphysics of the human heart. Few people have enchanted the popular imagination with science more powerfully and lastingly than physicist Richard Feynman (May 11, 1918–February 15, 1988) — the “Great Explainer” with the uncommon gift for bridging the essence of science with the most human and…

“They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things.” Here…

While I like being a professor, with each passing year I am less likely to recommend this career path. This is not because I fear competition (I am a tenured full professor). It is not because I have turned against my profession to embrace anti-intellectualism or some delusional ideology about “woke” professors. It is not…

DJ Homunculus Devin Sanchez Curry The first aim of Josh Mugg’s From Human Reasoning to Belief is to propose a new, empirically viable theory of central cognition (and especially belief fixation and revision): the Soundboard Account of Human Reasoning. The book achieves this aim admirably, both detailing how extant evidence … Share this… Linkedin Facebook…