McGurk Prostitutes Debate Secret Emotions Spotters
Five Emotions You Never Knew You Had by Jessica Griggs (New Scientist): Elevation, interest, gratitude, pride, and confusion; a nice summary of what psychologists know about these feelings. Though, what you call an emotion depends on how you define emotion, and the article doesn’t define emotion. [via]
Debate Over Cognitive, Traditional Mental Health Therapy by Eric Jaffe (LA Times): Clinical psychology struggles with the strengths and limitations of the scientific method when it comes to choosing what the best therapy is. [via]
Synesthesia And The McGurk Effect by Dave Munger (Cognitive Daily): Word-colour synaesthesia is affected by a visual illusion called the McGurk effect; this suggests that synaesthesia works with more refined perceptual/cognitive processing rather than simply sensory processing.
Why Men Use Prostitutes by Julie Bindel (The Guardian): The impression I get from the interviews in this article is that the men who use prostitutes are a varied bunch, some of whom seem mysogynistic, some of whom seem a bit confused, and some of whom seem to enjoy transgression.
Storm Spotters by Ashley Hay (The Monthly): Weather bureaus work better when helped by ‘storm spotters’, who supplement satellite images and temperature readings with personal, on the ground experience.
The Other Secret Jews by Adam Kirsch (Tablet): The story of the Dönme, Jews who followed the 17th century messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Given the choice between being beheaded and conversion to Islam, Zevi chose Islam, and though this sort of ended his Messiahship, some of his followers joined him. [via]
