The Genetics Of Mental Health

A major new genome wide association study published in the journal Science has significant new findings related to mental health. The core f...

Environmental Factors Influence IQ

There has been a great deal of skepticism expressed that education has any impact on IQ, but a large meta-analysis of research studies sugge...

Are Suicide and Violent Crime Rates Inversely Related?

Suicide rates have increased across the United States — and in dozens of states by more than 30 percent , according to a new report from the...

Personality, Japanese and the Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis attaches importance to the importance of language, and especially vocabulary, to what people can and do think ab...

Bayesian Statistical Reasoning and Race In The Criminal Justice System

Bayesian Reasoning Is Discouraged In Guilt-Innocence Trials. The legal system, especially the criminal justice system, in the United States ...

Quick Hits On Economics, Marriage and Education

Economics Retail and Tourism * There are lots of businesses that are in trouble:  Claire's  cheap earring stores are bankrupt,  JC Penne...

Unsurprising But Still Worth Mentioning Causes Of High School Non-Completion

Behavior is more strongly tied to dropping out of high school than IQ. And, the kids who will drop out of high school are largely foreseeabl...

Kesha v. Taylor Swift On Dealing With Mistreatment

Pop stars Kesha and Taylor Swift both have hit songs about being horribly wronged by men in their lives. Kesha's hit song, " Prayin...

Stranger Things As Evolutionary Psychology Realized

Humanity spend hundreds of thousands of years of its evolutionary history fighting and defeating large, creepy, dangerous animals that threa...

MBAs v. Lawyers Quote Of The Day

Amazon.com Inc. is hiring 1,000 MBAs a year :  Tech companies, once averse to hiring PowerPoint-loving B-school grads, have embraced them in...