Analyze Your Brain – Focus Pocus

National Geographic’s TV show Brain Games, hosted by Jason Silva, recently had an episode devoted to the brain and its ability to focus. It goes into depth about the human brain’s attention span and has some fun and revealing tests for its viewers “I think the ongoing evolution of human consciousness is the ongoing ability…

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Cooperation and Competition in Intercultural Interactions

Are team players more cooperative when they can relate to their teammates? New research conducted by Drs. David Matsumoto and Hyi Sung Hwang now relates the behavioral ability to cooperatively interact with people to cultural differences between the players. In this study, US born Americans played a modified Prisoner’s Dilemma game in same sex dyads…

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Past Blog: What Would Happen if Santa Didn’t Exist?

What would happen if Santa didn’t exist ?  Many people are thinking, well he doesn’t exist. True, but what if even the idea of Santa didn’t exist?  How would that holiday season compare to the current one that (technically) lies about his existence? Is it even healthy to lie to our children about a mythical…

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Our Gestures Often Betray Us

Our gestures often betray us: As much as we try to disguise our intentions or feelings, we project microexpressions: involuntary movements of our face that reveal what we hold deep and try to hide at all costs . Fractions of a second beyond the human eye, but easily caught by cameras because technology is now able…

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