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Quantum physicist, social psychologist among this year’s Killam Prize winners
The Globe and Mail: The Canada Council for the Arts calls it this country’s Nobel Prize. And today, the Killam Prize recognized five more of Canada’s finest academics for their devoted work to scientific and
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Eighty Years Along, a Longevity Study Still Has Ground to Cover
The New York Times: After reading “The Longevity Project,” I took an unscientific survey of friends and relatives asking them what personality characteristic they thought was most associated with long life. Several said “optimism,” followed
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Neuroscience in the Courtroom
Scientific American: By a strange coincidence, I was called to jury duty for my very first time shortly after I started as director of a new MacArthur Foundation project exploring the issues that neuroscience raises
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Psychologists link spatial perception to claustrophobic fear
Daily News & Analysis: People who project their personal space too far beyond their bodies, or the norm of arm’s reach, are more likely to experience claustrophobic fear, according to psychologists. “We’ve found that people
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Heartache or headache, pain process is similar, studies find
Los Angeles Times: The brain’s shared pain network illustrates the link between body and mind, and it may help explain how emotional ups or downs affect health too. Across cultures and language divides, people talk
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Beauty is in the Mind of the Beholder
There’s no getting around it. In this world, you’re better off being good-looking. At all ages and in all walks of life, attractive people are judged more favorably, treated better, and cut more slack. Mothers