mind

September-

October

2019

Volume 30 • No. 5

WHAT’S

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FEATURES

15.

Authenticity under Fire

Researchers are calling into question authenticity

as a scientifically viable concept

18.

What’s So Funny? The Science of Why We Laugh

Psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers

are trying to understand humor

23.

Are People with ADHD More Creative?

A look at whether people whose minds drift away

easily, such as those with the disorder, are more

likely to come up with original ideas

25.

Does Psychology Have

a Conflict-of-Interest Problem?

Some star psychologists don’t disclose in

research papers the large sums they earn for

talking about their work. Is that a concern?

31.

Toward a New Frontier in Human Intelligence:

The Person-Centered Approach

New research is shedding light on how intelligence

changes and develops over time

OPINION

35.

A Solution

for Loneliness

Get out and volunteer,

research suggests

37.

Socrates’ Critique

of 21st-Century

Neuroscience

The ancient thinker

saw limits to what

natural science can tell

us about ourselves

40.

You’ve Heard

of Postpartum

Depression

but Probably

Not Postpartum

Anxiety

More accurately known

as perinatal anxiety,

and like most people,

I had no idea it existed

until it struck me

ILLUSIONS

44.

Help, I’m Stuck

in a Painting!

When the real world

looks like Flatland

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NEWS

4.

Our Brain Uses

a Not So Instant

Replay to Make

Decisions

Neural-processing

centers repeat recent

sequences of events

to lay down new

memories used for

abstract thought

6.

“Missing” Wallets

with More Cash

Are More Likely

to Be Returned

A massive global

study with 17,

planted wallets found

similar patterns among

most of the 40

countries involved

8.

Decoding the

Language of Neurons

A new study reveals

surprising variations

in the neural code

10.

Creative Types Reserve

a Special Corner of the

Brain for Dreaming Big

Artists, novelists,

actors and directors

excel at tapping into

“imagination” circuits

11.

Better Memory through

Electrical Brain Ripples

A study in mice

shows improved

cognitive performance

when these bursting

signals move around

memory circuits

MAX MUNN AUTREY

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