The Blog

This blog is about connecting popular themes within cognitive psychology to real world events, discussing important contemporary intellectual and social topics and engaging the public with science. I write about a wide range of topics but there are four themes that run throughout most of my posts.

1. Reason and intuition and their relationship
2. Understanding the brain as a dynamic and embodied system
3. Human well-being at the individual and national level
4. The role of religion and philosophy

Some Modest Highlights: 

Mentioned in: (Also Blogs I Like)

• New York Times’ The Stone
• 3 Quarks Daily
• The Browser
• Ed Yong’s Not Exactly Rocket Science
• The Daily Beast (Andrew Sullivan’s Blog)
• Eric Barker’s Barking Up The Wrong Tree
• Simoleon Sense
• Farnamstreet Blog

Written for Scientific American on several occasions:

• Jonathan Haidt and the Moral Matrix: Breaking Out of Our Righteous Minds
• A Brief Guide To Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain
• Cognitive Biases in Sports: The Irrationality of Coaches, Commentators and Fans
• Why We Care About Chimpanzees: The Origins of Human Morality
• What Makes Us Happy: Alexander Tocqueville vs. Kanye West
• Confirmation Bias and Art

And Sheril Kirshenbaum’s Culture of Science

• The Politics of Happiness

Two time Editor’s Selection at ResearchBlogging.com: