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The Misleading Headline of the Week…and What to Do About...
Scientific American Mind has entitled this brief piece “Too Much Emotional Intelligence is a Bad…

Political Affiliation and Trust in Science
Over at the Cultural Cognition Project, Dan Kahan has offered a fascinating post about the relationship…

Book Review: the Promise and Perils of fMRI
Russell Poldrack reviews Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: How fMRI Reveals What Really Goes on…

A Skeptic Meditates
Scott Barry Kaufman meditates — rebelliously — for eight weeks, and learns a lot about himself,…

“Neuro-Prediction”
The invaluable Neuroskeptic debunks yet another example of neuro-prediction. Let the brain science consumer beware…

Does Internet Use “Rewire Adolescent Brains”?
Our very own Kathryn Mills says: we’ve got a lot of anecdotes, but not a…