As Under the Cortex enters its second year, we decided to comb through the archive and revisit three exciting stories from our early days.
Our first story explores why groups can look on the “good old days” as a guide for curing the woes of today.
Next we discuss why we’re drawn to villains, monstrous characters from fiction, especially if they remind us of ourselves in some way.
And finally on this look back, we “resurrect” our creepy look at haunted houses and why they’re so fun!
Wendy Wood: It’s Time We Trained Students for Diverse Careers in Psychological Science
Best Of: Revisiting Episodes on the Myers-Briggs Test, the Grieving Brain, and More
Understanding Childhood Adversity Across Time and Cultures
Nobody’s Fool: How to Avoid Getting Taken In
Carl Hart on Clinicians’ Bias Toward Drug Use
Bringing Contexts In, Taking Racism Out: How to Improve Cognitive Psychology
Endless Love: You’ve Got Ideas About Consensual Nonmonogamy. They’re Probably Wrong
Psychology’s Role in the Criminalization of Blackness
Silver Linings in the Demographic Revolution
Industrialized Cheating in Academic Publishing: How to Fight “Paper Mills”
Exploration vs. Exploitation: Adults Are Learning (Once Again) From Children
Lived Experiences Can Be a Strength. So Why the Bias Against “Me-Search”?
Special Episode II: APS 2023 Spence Awardees on Sharing Minds, the Development of Learning, and Implicit Bias
Special Episode I: APS 2023 Spence Awardees on Fresh Starts, Time Perception, and the Well-being of Black Families
Is Cheating Just a Symptom (and Not the Cause) of Declining Relationships?
Stop Oversimplifying Mental Health Diagnoses
A Very Human Answer to One of AI’s Deepest Dilemmas
Top 10 Articles of 2022: Opinionated Fetuses! Cheating Spouses! And Much More
What You Know Changes What and How You See
Children, Creativity, and the Real Key to Intelligence
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