PSYCO258 Lecture 1: 1
11 Feb 2019
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The tone of the original paper was tongue-in-cheek" (i. e. the authors weren"t being completely serious), which the popular press interpretation (by forbes) more or less picks up on. That said, although this example stands out as being particularly outlandish, it is very common for interpretations of psychological research covered by the popular press to get distorted in various ways, usually for the sake of sensationalism. The researchers found differences in 5 regions of the brain associated with spirituality, somatic senses, and the ability to recognize emotions based on facial expressions. Those in the brain image condition agreed more strongly that the scientific reasoning in the article made sense", as compared to those in the other two conditions. What does this tell us about neuroimaging and critical thinking: jan. 9. Early psychological researchers initially embraced studying the mind. However, the rise of behaviorism led to the study of the mind being largely discredited as a pursuit.
