Scientific American MIND – July-August, 2019, Volume 30, Number 4

WHY ARE DARK TRIAD PEOPLE SO SEDUCTIVE? Why do they get all the research attention? I asked my col- league David Yaden in his of ...

dark triad. While the two are negatively related to each other, the relationship is only moderate in size (a cor- relation of ab ...

marily motivated by intimacy and self-transcendent values. Many character strengths correlated with the light triad, including c ...

The original Renaissance man died 500 years ago, but the nature of his genius continues to fascinate us By Jonathan Pevsner The ...

Across the centuries, each generation has interpreted Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), finding him to be remarkably modern. At the ...

of his authorities, he was sometimes able to liberate him- self and pioneer original discoveries. FAITH IN EXPERIENCE Leonardo w ...

OBSERVATIONS How Language Shapes the Brain The ascent of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito offers a lesson in the neuroscientific power o ...

and exercise can change our bodies, so can men- tal activity, such as learning and using language, shape the physical structures ...

guage can still have an impact well into adulthood and after relatively brief amounts of training. Fur- thermore, changes to one ...

OBSERVATIONS The Concept of Neurodiversity Is Dividing the Autism Community It remains controversial—but it doesn’t have to be A ...

Opinion minimized, allowing other differences to blossom as talents. The neurodiversity perspective reminds us that disability a ...

gesting that there may be reduced apoptosis (or pruning of of neural connections) in autism, but again this may just be evidence ...

OBSERVATIONS Psychiatry’s Inevitable Hubris Can clinicians help their patients even in the absence of certainty? I t’s 3 P.M. on ...

Opinion an’s father replies quickly, “Well, I read this essay in the Atlantic—do you read the Atlantic?” “Well, sometimes,” I sa ...

with my hands around the room. “You brought Adri- an here because you’re concerned your child may try to kill themself. Based on ...

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