Bastiaan T Rutjensis an assistant professor at the psychology department of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people – including politicians and, yes, even presidents – publicly express doubts about the validity of scientific findings. Meanwhile, scientific institutions and journals express their concerns aboutContinue reading “What makes people distrust science? Surprisingly, not politics”
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Can you be mentally tough, but still depressed
By Kirsten van Heerden DAILY MAVERICK 22/05/2018 The stigma of mental health issues in elite athletes continues. Being mentally tough and mental illness are two concepts which are often confused when suffered in elite sport. Do you want to know what a panic attack in the middle of an NBA game feels like? Kevin LoveContinue reading “Can you be mentally tough, but still depressed”
Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now – Gloria Origgi
There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the greater the amount of information that circulates, the more we rely on so-called reputational devices to evaluate it. What makes this paradoxical is that the vastly increased access to information and knowledge we have today doesContinue reading “Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now – Gloria Origgi”
Meet your second brain – February 2018
MEET YOUR SECOND BRAIN Frederik B O Nel (February 2018) In the magazine, Very Interesting (issue 39, Jan/Feb 2018), an article titled “Meet your second brain” by Robert Matthews, is based on a book called The Mind-Gut Connection (2016, by gastroenterologist Dr Emeran Mayer. This so-called “second brain” is a reference to our enteric nervousContinue reading “Meet your second brain – February 2018”
Our Brains sometimes create ‘false memories’ – Lindsay Dodgson
Lindsay Dodgson; Reporter Business Insider, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, 21-12-2017 Research has proven that memories can easily be distorted to make people believe false information.Have you ever had an argument because you disagree about the way something happened?You were both there, you saw the same thing, but you remember it differenly.This happens quite a lot, becauseContinue reading “Our Brains sometimes create ‘false memories’ – Lindsay Dodgson”