Psychology

Literary Minds

关于小说、诗歌和戏剧,神经科学能告诉我们什么?小说能帮助我们发展现实世界中的认知技能吗?作家们能为了我们自己的利益利用我们精神上的弱点吗?这是我们在本周的节目“你的文学大脑”中要问的一些问题。

Replacing Freud

关于无意识的信念、欲望和动机,最新的科学见解是什么?当代实验心理学家比弗洛伊德做得更好吗?还有比这更糟的吗?在本周的节目中,我们要问:是什么取代了弗洛伊德?

Say it Enough, They’ll Believe It

如果你经常重复一件事,人们更有可能相信它。这就是所谓的虚幻真相效应。这种情况可能发生在聪明人身上,甚至当人们已经知道这种说法是错误的时候。那么,为什么重复某件事会让人们更容易相信它呢?

谜题2:什么是身份?

Continuing my series of puzzles to distract you from the current crisis, this month I'm asking: What is an identity? I mean the kind of identity that makes you a member of a certain social group (call these collective identities, social identities, or group identities), though that’s a rough characterization.

Self Knowledge on Trial

Most people seem think that knowing themselves is a good idea, or at least say that that’s what they think. “Know thyself,” is uttered reverently—as though it’s self-evidently a wonderful goal. I’m going to put self-knowledge on trial, and I’ll say up front that the case for the defence looks pretty thin.