Scientific American Mind - USA (2020-03 & 2020-04)

MARCH /APRIL 2020 | MIND.SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM A CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE? INCLUDING PSYCHEDELIC RESEARCH GETS SERIOUS CLEAR SEX DIFF ...

One of my advisers in graduate school used to say that what we humans know about the universe and our existence is a paltry frac ...

March-April 2020 WHAT’S Volume 31 • Number^2 INSIDE MOHA EL-JAW GETTY IMAGES FEATURES 13. Does Consciousness Pervade the Univers ...

CECILE ARCURS GETTY IMAGES Americans Are Fast to Judge Social Class Judgments about the way people talk happen quickly and affec ...

Reproduction of Social Class in Brief Speech.” The paper lays out evidence from five studies demonstrating that people can accur ...

The Brain Senses Touch beyond the Body You detect a tool’s contact with an object as if you placed your own finger on it Luke Mi ...

sensory brain regions are presented with the same stimulus repeatedly, the responses of the underlying neural population gets su ...

according to the study, published in Science Translational Medicine. Essentially, beta-amyloid hijacks the norepinephrine pathwa ...

Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I. “I’d be shocked if it works.” Such a drug might, however, be part of a “therapeutic package” ...

Scientists have long questioned whether human emotions share universal roots or vary across cul- tures. Early evidence suggested ...

grouped with those for fear, while in others, the same concept was paired with more pleasant states, such as happiness. Through ...

N EWS problems such as addiction and eating disorders. Researchers led by neuroscien- tist Shelly Flagel of the University of Mi ...

Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about “panpsychism” By Gareth Cook Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe? GETTY IMAG ...

One of science’s most challenging problems is a question that can be stated easily: Where does conscious- ness come from? In his ...

we had done that, everything else could be captured in mathematics. This is really important because although the problem of con ...

MOHA EL-JAW GETTY IMAGES Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are testing whether the potent psychedelic in psilocybin mushro ...

Tanya Lewis is an associate editor at Scientific American who covers health and medicine. P SYCHEDELIC DRUGS— once promising res ...

ment. Some even said they had lost their fear of death. Armed with these promising results, Griffiths and his colleagues turned ...

New approaches are shedding light on the magnitude of sex differences in personality, and the results are so strong and pervasiv ...

F ew topics in psychology are more controversial than sex differences^1. Debates can be classified into two main types: (a) The ...