Scientific American Mind - USA (2022-01 & 2022-02)

January–

February

2022

Volume 33 • Number 1

WHAT’S

INSIDE

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FEATURES

16.A Change to the Sound of the Voice

Can Change Your Very Self-Identity

A French physician explains what happened

to some of his patients

19.Discrimination Persists in Society—

But Who Discriminates?

Is discriminatory behavior widely dispersed or

highly concentrated in a small number of people?

22.COVID Expanded the Boundaries

of Personal Space —Maybe for Good

Our physical safety perimeters have widened,

a study suggests

OPINION

26.Other People Don’t

Think You’re a Mess

Individuals often

overestimate how

harshly others judge

them. But self-

compassion can help

build a more balanced,

healthy perspective

29.Coming Out

Autistic

Transgender or

gender-fluid people

are more likely

to be neurodivergent,

and vice versa.

Here’s what that’s like

33.Remote Work

Can Be Better for

Innovation Than

In-Person Meetings

Seven steps for more

inclusive and productive

virtual brainstorming

ILLUSIONS

36.The Allure

of Mirages

Our centuries-long

fascination with

optical phenomena

NEWS

4.Suicide Rates

Rise in a Generation

of Black Youth

Multiple causes

underlie a disturbing

trend. The increase

for girls is more than

double that for boys

6.The Brain Guesses

What Word Comes Ne-

Like some AI systems,

the organ of thought

appears to predict

what word follows

another to coax meaning

from language

8.Experimental

Brain Implant

Could Personalize

Depression Therapy

Symptoms subsided

for one woman after a

carefully targeted neural

circuit was stimulated

10.An Inventory

of All the Brain Cells

That Let You Run,

Jump and Roll

A project to map the

motor cortex used the

widest range of tools

for probing brain cells

ever deployed in a

single, coordinated effort

14.Pandemic Year One

Saw a Dramatic

Global Rise in Anxiety

and Depression

In hindsight, 2020

witnessed a dispro por-

tionate mental health

burden on women and

young people

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