17-03-2010, 09:29 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:My emphasis in bold:
Medical knowledge of the brain, at the physical, neuronal level, is still incredibly basic.
I agree entirely, though some advances are being made and some "centers" are getting themselves more organized in their pursuit. I try to scan and survey the world to glean these things. I watch at least three or four web sites. I have recently purchased a raft of books on multiple intelligences and their development in children, one on parapsychology and spirituality by a well-known 9/11 researcher, two relatively new ones by Howard Gardner, Ellen Langer's new book "Conterclockwise", and three on psychosomatics and movement. "Our" task is not only to survey and watch what is being said, done, developed and used by the unspeakable gang, but to make every effort in our limited circumstances to understand and develop the antidotes and inject them into the culture.
Of particular note are Howard Gardner's books "Changing Minds" and "Five Minds for the Future".
Further leads from "Mind Hacks", a UK-based pyschiatry blog:
The Culture and Cognition blog covers the territory where culture and psychology meet, and they've just released their 'reader' which has a list of essential books and papers to cover the interface between anthropology and the cognitive sciences.
Many of the articles are available in full online and the list is a fantastic guide to the area.
It includes both popular and academic texts but the list works best as a reference, so bookmark it as I'm sure you'll be returning to it time and again if you're like me and interested in the cross over between culture and psychology.
Link to Cognition and Culture Reader:
http://cognitionandculture.net/index.php...&Itemid=78
Link to to Cognition and Culture home page:
http://cognitionandculture.net/index.php...e&Itemid=1
Sample:
Does power increase hypocrisy?
News - Publications
09 January 2010
An article entitled "Power Increases Hypocrisy: Moralizing in Reasoning, Immorality in Behavior" by Joris Lammers, Diederik A. Stapel, and Adam D. Galinsky coming out in Psychological Science and available here illustrates how insights into 'power', a notion central in the standard social sciences, can be gained through a cognitive and experimental approach. Abstract under the fold. Read more...
The International Cognition and Culture Institute (Institut Jean Nicod and LSE) and the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program at the University of Pennsylvania organize a virtual seminar Decision Making for a Social World.
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The aim of this seminar is to bring together threads of research in decision making and related areas of psychology that show how deeply our decisions are influenced by our social context. Some of this research even takes the stronger stance that some of the mechanisms that are typically thought of as being within the purview of individual cognition actually have a social function.
It will begin in February 2011. Every two weeks a new paper will be posted and a moderated discussion will take place online among invited discussants and the public one the one hand, and the author on the other hand.
See also:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/03/go...ide_t.html
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"