We have begun a subscription to a new quarterly magazine, Scientific American Mind. The first issue arrived last week and I read it cover to cover. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in how the mind works.
Some of the feature articles in the first issue include:
- Natural-Born Liars
Why do we lie, and why are we so good at it? Because it works - Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
What are dreams? Why do we have them? The answers are as intriguing as dreams themselves - True Crimes, False Confessions
How innocent people end up confessing to crimes they did not commit - The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis
Though often denigrated as fakery, hypnosis is a real phenomenon with therapeutic uses - Signing Gets a Scientific Voice
Sign language is as rich and complex as spoken communication, probably because the brain creates and deciphers it in the same way - Buy This
Companies spend billions on marketing campaigns, but neuroscientists could someday determine which ads best capture consumers' attention
Interesting reading.
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