By Date

June:

• Creative Cheating: The Link Between Creativity and Dishonestly (6/7/12)
• What Motivates Creativity? (6/7/12)
• Why Traveling Abroad Makes Us More Creative (6/1/12)

May:

• What Believers And Atheists Can Learn From Each Other (5/29/12)
• Environmental Cues That Boost Creativity (5/22/12)
• Original Ideas: The Last Step In The Creative Process (5/16/12)
• Thinking Laterally In A Linear World (5/10/12)
• Relaxation And Creativity: The Science of Sleeping On It (5/9/12)
• What Improv Teaches Us About Creativity (5/8/12)

April:

• The Irrationality of Irrationality: The Paradox of Popular Psychology (4/27/12)
• Blogging At Big Think (4/22/12) 
• Are Superstitions Rational? (4/17/12)
• Produce First, Sharpen Second: What Dylan’s Vomit Teaches Us About The Creative Process (4/12/12)
• The Pros and Cons of Likemindedness (4/8/12)
• Political Empathy And Moral Matrices (4/4/12)

March:

• Religion, Evolution & What The New Atheists Overlook (3/29/12)
• Getting Mired In Trivial Choices: Why More Options Doesn’t Mean More Important (3/26/12)
• Childhood & Creativity (3/24/12)
• Jonah Lehrer And The New Science of Creativity (3/20/12)
• Why I’m Optimistic About The Future (3/13/12)
• The Illusion of Understanding Success (3/8/12)
• Why The Future of Neuroscience Will Be Emotionless (3/5/12)
• The Future of Religion (3/1/12)

February:

• Do We Know What We Like? (2/26/12)
• Do Babies Know What’s Fair? (2/21/12)
• What Conspiracy Theories Teach Us About Reason (2/16/12)
• Rewire Your Brain For Love (2/12/12)
• To Speed Up The Creative Process, Slow Down (2/10/12)
• The Irrationality Of Irrationality (2/7/12)
• What Motivates A Suicide Bomber? (2/4/12)
• Why Intellectual Diversity Is Important (2/2/12)

January:

• Why Atheists Should Be Allowed To Cherry Pick From Religion (1/29/12)
• The Creativity Post (1/25/12)
• “Who’s There?” Is The Self A Convenient Fiction? (1/24/12)
• How To Generate A Good Idea (1/20/12)
• The Science Of The New Musician: How NYU Professor Gary Marcus Became A Guitar Hero (1/19/12)
• Odysseus And The Science of Willpower (1/15/12)
• What Philosophers Got Right (1/12/12)
• Passion, Reason & Moral Hypocrisy (1/9/12)
• What Popular Psychology Books Forget: The Danger of Storytelling (1/7/12)
• The Importance of Forgetting: Why a Bad Memory is a Good Memory (1/4/12)

December:

• Suffering From Decision Fatigue? The Downside of Abundance (12/28/11) 
• Does It Matter If a Painting is Fake? Why Origins Matter (12/23/11)
• What Made Christopher Hitchens Great (12/20/11)
• The Psychology of Magic (12/19/11)
• Has Pop Culture Stopped? Or Are Pop Culture Writers Getting Too Old? (12/15/11)
• The Politics of Happiness: Guest Post at Sheril Kirshenbaum’s Blog Culture of Science (12/14/11)
• The Brain as a Kluge: How We Experience and Remember (12/12/11)
• Seeing Without Knowing: How the Conscious Mind Messes with Memory (12/9/11)
• Jonathan Haidt and the Moral Matrix: Breaking Out of Our Moral Minds (12/8/11)
• What Liberals Can Learn From Emile Durkheim (12/5/11)
• Can You Trust an Atheist? (12/2/11)

November:

• Are We Inherently Good or Evil? What Babies Teach us About Morality (11/30/11)
• Why Everyone (else) is Overconfident (11/28/11)
• To Give or to Get: The Paradox of Choice and Prosocial Spending (11/25/11)
• Why Shouldn’t You Shop While Hungry? Ego-Depletion and the Brain as a Muscle (11/22/11)
• Morality & The Individual: The Role of the Passions in Moral Dilemmas (11/18/11)
• Friend of Foe in Twenty Seconds: New Research Examines Accuracy of Snap-Judgments (11/16/11)
• Cognitive Obstacles: Why Distractions Can Improve Creativity and Problem-Solving (11/14/11)
• The Availability Heuristic: Why Your Children Probably Aren’t Going to be Murdered (11/12/11)
• Drawing Out Our Better Angels: The Important Role of Moral Reminders (11/9/11)
• Happiness Around the World: Ensuring Well-Being by Remembering That Which Makes Life Worthwhile (11/7/11)
• A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Aren’t Your Brain (11/4/11)
• What is Reason Good For? The Rationality-Intuition Debate (11/2/11)

October:

• Our Modular Selves: Science and the Philosophy of Self (10/31/11)
• Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality? (10/28/11)
• Stereotype Threat: Overcoming Stereotypes One Neuron at a Time (10/26/11)
• Oliver Sacks at the American Museum of Natural History (10/24/11)
• How Science Can Inform Human Values & Morality (10/21/11)
• A Case Against Religious Moderation (10/19/11)
• Why People Believe in God: The By-Product Hypothesis (10/18/11)
• The Price of Framing & Anchoring (10/14/11)
• Does Raising Awareness About Bullying Cause More Bullying? (10/12/11)
• Psychology and Marketing: How Neuromarketers Abuse Science (10/11/11)
• Is There Anything Wrong With Incest? Emotion, Reason and Altruism in Moral Psychology (10/10/11)
• Novelty in Music and Markets: The Evolutionary Forces Behind our Appreciation of the Unfamiliar (10/7/11)
• The Aha! Moment: How Relaxation Helps the Creative Process (10/6/11)
• Misguided Incentives in Schools (10/5/11)
• Considering the Evolutionary Point of View: Why It’s Entirely Rational for Older Men to Date Younger Women (10/3/11)

September:

• The Embodiment of Height: Why You Give More To Charity When You Are Elevated (9/30/11)
• Is Character More Important Than GPA? (9/28/11)
• Are There Too Many Beautiful Women and Powerful Men In The World? (9/26/11)
• Is It Possible To Predict Black Swans?(9/26/11)
• Cognitive Biases Abound in Sports: Guest Post at Scientific American (9/22/11)
• Why Being Irrational Is Important(9/20/11)
• The Psychology of Pleasure: Interview With Paul Bloom (9/17/11)
• The Evil of Irrelevant Information: Anchoring & The Conjunction Fallacy(9/14/11)
• Happiness, Loneliness & Friendship: Why Sartre Got It Wrong (9/12/11)
• The Psychology of Marriage: Choice or Arranged? (9/10/11)
• Psychology’s Treacherous Trio: Confirmation Bias, Cognitive Dissonance, and Motivated Reasoning (9/7/11)
• Is it Possible to Not Judge A Book by Its Cover? (9/4/11)
• How Misguided Incentives Affect Our Productivity and Well-Being (9/1/11)

August:

• The Embodiment of Time, Tenderness, and Weight (8/30/11)
• Loss Aversion: The Psychology of Gaining and Losing an Aisle (8/28/11)
• Does Studying Behavioral Economics Improve Your Financial Decisions?(8/25/11)
• Ideas: What They Are & Where They Come From (8/24/11)
• The Power and Perils of Adaptation: What You Can and Can’t Do About Your Happiness (8/22/11)
• The Psychology of Purpose (8/19/11)
• Guest Post @ Scientific American: Chimpanzees and Morality (feat. Paul Bloom) (8/18/11)
• A Brief History of Popular Psychology: An Essay (8/15/11)
• Conflicts in Popular Psychology: Go With Your Guy? Or Think It Through? (8/12/11)
• The Psychology of Attraction: How To Flirt With Science (8/9/11)
• Genetics & Brokers: Why We Are Horrible at Predicting the Stock Market (8/7/11)
• The Unconscious Influence of Names: What’s Really Going On? (8/4/11)
• Matt Damon Brings Back Will Hunting(8/3/11)
• How to Explain the Disaster at Tenerife (8/2/11)

July: 

• Guest Post @ Scientific American (7/31/11)
• Why You’ll Pay For Silence: Cage’s 4:33 (7/29/11)
• Don’t Blink! What Are Behavioral Studies Really Saying? (7/27/11)
• Past & Future: Where Are Our Brains Supposed to Exist? (7/25/11)
• Explaining Joshua Bell (7/23/11)
• My $10,000 Blog (7/19/11)
• Guest Post @ Scientific American (7/17/11)
• The Future Of Psychology: Can We Know What It’s Like To Be a Bat? (7/15/11)
• Positive Psychology: Prescriptive or Descriptive? (7/13/11)
• Priming Revisited (7/11/11)
• The Evolution of Water (7/6/11)
• Exercising our Words: Stop Thinking Like Plato! (7/4/11)

June:

• Menstruation & Attraction: Why Females Shouldn’t Flirt While Menstruating and Why Bears Can Smell the Menstruation (6/29/11)
• Fooled by Randomness (6/27/11)
• The Myth of the SI Jinx (6/25/11)
• Rethinking the Scientific Method (6/23/11)
• Why We Reason (6/21/11)
• Brains, Comedy and Steve Martin 6/15/11)
• Brains, Music and The Bad Plus (6/14/11)