Sсiеntifiс Аmеricаn Mind – September – October 2019 (Tablet Edition)

voluntary social strategy—for example, when their smiles and laughter punctuate ordinary conversations, even when those chats ar ...

explained. And the typical response is enjoyment of the idiocy—which “makes sense when it is your enemy or your competition that ...

A look at whether people whose minds drift away easily, such as those with the disorder, are more likely to come up with origina ...

T hose affected by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are clinically thought of as inattentive, hyperactive and imp ...

Does Psychology Have a Conflict-of- Interest Problem? Some star psychologists don’t disclose in research papers the large sums t ...

G Twenge has “spoken at several large corporations, in- cluding PepsiCo, McGraw-Hill, nGenera, Nielsen Media, and Bain Consultin ...

discussion of what constitutes a conflict of interest and when and how such conflicts should be disclosed.” SPEAKING INCOME Supp ...

when researchers have been severely criticized for their results but continue to earn money for talks on them, pointing to stati ...

ment. An APS spokesperson said that the society “has had no formal role in defining conflicts of interest for its members” and p ...

comment.) “Just because you’re being paid doesn’t mean that there’s really a conflict, just potential for one. The cornerstone o ...

Toward a New Frontier in Human Intelligence: The Person- Centered Approach New research is shedding light on how intelligence ch ...

W hen it comes to intelligence, we all have bad days. Heck, we even have many bad moments, such as when we forget our car keys, ...

working-memory tasks on smartphones three times a day in school and at home for four weeks. Those who have strong working-memory ...

I can envision a smartphone app someday that will allow you to do repeated assessments of your cognitive performance across a wi ...

BEHAVIOR & SOCIETY A Solution for Loneliness Get out and volunteer, research suggests I was riding a bus recently and notice ...

after controlling for demographics, baseline health, personality traits and other social involvement. These benefits may be espe ...

OBSERVATIONS Socrates’ Critique of 21st-Century Neuroscience The ancient thinker saw limits to what natural science can tell us ...

cell. “I thought it was a glorious thing to know the causes of everything, why each thing comes into being and why it perishes a ...

with the remedy,” Socrates explains, “and if one uttered the charm at the moment of its applica- tion, the remedy made one perfe ...

OBSERVATIONS You’ve Heard of Postpartum Depression but Probably Not Postpartum Anxiety More accurately known as perinatal anxiet ...