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plenty of evidence that critical thinking can be taught and improved. Is it better to be a critical thinker or to be intelligent ...
PXEL66 GETTY IMAGES An Inner Look into the Minds and Brains of People with OCD Complex computer modeling demonstrates that obses ...
A bout 10 years ago David Adam scratched his finger on a barbed wire fence. The cut was shallow, but drew blood. As a science jo ...
ment might be impaired in some way or they might lack confidence in things learned, despite their being accurate. In- spired by ...
says computational neuroscientist Nathan- iel Daw of Princeton University, who was not involved in the study. “This study sup- p ...
dysfunction. Brain imaging people with OCD doing this kind of task should help so- lidify this hypothesis. “Mental disorders are ...
BETTMANN GETTY IMAGES Including the zero honored this year, there have been just 17 in the history of the prizes. Why so terribl ...
A bout 1,600 years ago, the Egyptian mathematician and philosopher Hypatia was stoned in public—ac- cording to some accounts, by ...
in reality but has nothing to do with the ac- tual situation. For instance, even taking body size into account, women typically ...
HOMER SYKES GETTY IMAGES In 1970 a psychiatrist at Tulane University electrically stimulated the brain of a gay man while he had ...
T o help my students appreciate how science reflects cultural prejudices, I often cite examples from psychia- try. The Diagnosti ...
and quotes are from the latter paper. The experiment involved “patient B-19,” a 24-year-old man with a history of epilep- sy, de ...
electric shocks. Research on brain implants for treating mental disorders continues, but no one, as far as I know, is using im- ...
JOSIPA BASIC GETTY IMAGES A new study gives a portrait of female perpetrators By Lara Stemple, Ilan H. Meyer Sexual Victimizatio ...
T ake a moment and picture an image of a rapist. Without a doubt, you are thinking about a man. Given our per- vasive cultural u ...
which includes male perpetration and adds female perpetration, is consistent with fem- inist principles in important ways. For e ...
ual abuse, with more perpetrators and at earlier ages than those who commit other crimes. Some women commit sexual victim- izati ...
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