ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections: Replications, Illusory Faces, High Art, and Fridge Moms


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Jason G. GoldmanJason G. Goldman is a graduate student in developmental psychology at the University of Southern California, where he studies the evolutionary and developmental origins of the mind in humans and non-human animals. Jason is also an editor at ScienceSeeker and Editor of Open Lab 2010. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Follow on Google+. Follow on Twitter @jgold85.

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--> Jason G. GoldmanJason G. Goldman is a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His research focuses on the evolution and architecture of the mind, and how different early experiences might affect innate knowledge systems. He received his B.A. in Psychology in 2007, and his M.A. in Psychology in 2009, both from USC.

In addition, Jason is a freelance science writer. His blog The Thoughtful Animal, which discusses behavior and cognition in humans and animals, has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, SEED Magazine, the National Geographic Channel, the Charlotte Observer, the Raleigh News-Observer, and USA Today. He has also contributed to Scientific American, The Guardian, and LAist.

Jason writes about psychology and neuroscience, with a special focus on animal cognition and the evolution of the mind. What does it mean for a cognitive skill or capacity to be truly innate? How can the environment take the basic building blocks of cognition and push them around in different ways? How did those building blocks evolve? How do they develop throughout the lifetime? Understanding the animal mind can help us better understand the evolution of the human mind.

Jason is also an editor at ScienceSeeker and Editor of Open Lab 2010. You can also follow him on twitter, on Google+ and on tumblr. His professional website is http://www.jasonggoldman.com

Jason's beautiful banner image, featuring a bonobo, common dolphin, and blue jay, was created by Carl Buell. - - jgold85 Contact Jason G. Goldman via email.
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Here are my Science Seeker Editor?s Selections for the past week:

This is a big deal, following a tough summer for the field: Psychological Science to publish direct replications (maybe). By Sanjay Srivastava.

At BPS Research Digest, find out why paranormal believers and religious people are more prone to seeing faces that aren?t really there in this post by Christian Jarrett.

?An artist drew dozens of self-renderings while under the influence of varying drugs, and the series has found its way to a scrollable media platform where it?s touted as ?all kinds of cool.?? Cassie Rodenberg asks, ?Does this form of art confirm or negate the seriousness of drug use and the struggles of those coping with chronic dependency and addiction??

At Mind Hacks, Vaughan Bell treats us to a brief reheating of the refrigerator mother, and offers a nuanced approach to a very complicated problem of how certain disorders can be presented by mainstream media. ?Unless you include ?starvation? under the concept or ?poor interaction with the mother? the scans really don?t represent what typically happens to children who are emotionally neglected.?

Jason G. GoldmanAbout the Author: Jason G. Goldman is a graduate student in developmental psychology at the University of Southern California, where he studies the evolutionary and developmental origins of the mind in humans and non-human animals. Jason is also an editor at ScienceSeeker and Editor of Open Lab 2010. He lives in Los Angeles, CA. Follow on Google+. Follow on Twitter @jgold85.

The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.

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