Scientific American Mind - USA (2020-11 & 2020-12)
based on gender, sexuality, religion, disability or person- ality, is tacitly given the extra emotional task of helping others r ...
BEHAVIOR & SOCIETY The Problem with Implicit Bias Training It’s well motivated, but there’s little evidence that it leads to ...
disparities, Michigan and California have mandated implicit bias training for some health professionals. There’s just one proble ...
BEHAVIOR & SOCIETY Were French People Born to Speak French? No. The belief that people are suited to speak particular langua ...
habit shapes our thinking in many domains. What’s more, as a reflection of this essentialist thinking, it’s not uncommon for peo ...
instructions and talked to the babies, exposing them to the language. Or maybe the story is made up. Whatever the case, Herodotu ...
Maybe the twins were exposed to this dialect early in life, and it stuck somehow. Or maybe it was transferred in utero or inheri ...
COGNITION The Weirdness of Watching Yourself on Zoom As babies, we learn that it’s ourself we see in a mirror. But online meetin ...
A key piece of recognizing yourself is being able to detect when two things are temporally dependent, or contingent. As early as ...
BEHAVIOR & SOCIETY Penis Size Has Nothing to Do with Masculinity Mocking men who tote big guns or drive fast cars as “compen ...
anger and sexist attacks—will mention something about the critic’s penis size and how his behavior suggests compensation for hav ...
Perplexing Perspectives Conflicting viewpoints coexist at the crossroads of math and art I n Plato’s allegory of the cave, chain ...
artist exploring the intersection of math, art and illusion. Influenced by Escher’s unique approach to perspective, Bakker uses ...
Editor in Chief: Laura Helmuth Managing Editor: Curtis Brainard Senior Editor, Collections: Andrea Gawrylewski Chief Features Ed ...
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