Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the r...

There are dozens of competing theories about the causes of crime. But only one fits perfectly with the data, claims a bold new investigati...

Accepting the award. Photo credit: Michael Donner I am pleased to report that I have been awarded the 2012 Distinguished Scientific Cont...

Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco Bay On May 22, 2002, the body of Juliette Williamson was found washed up on Yerba Buena Island in the ...

Click on a title to read the article abstract; click on a highlighted author's name to request the full article. Perceptions of wrongf...

Of Florence Nightingale, free will, psychopath-hunters and -- yes -- even octopuses It’s my turn to host the neuroscience and psychology bl...

The dominant theme of this month's Encephalon blog carnival is that no matter how straightforward something may appear, it is not alway...

The Encephalon carnival is back! Blog carnivals are an effort to streamline the blogosphere's massive resources through timely and t...

A special section of the Association for Psychological Science's journal, Perspectives on Psychological Science , is dedicated to contr...

Mind Hacks I have been checking out Mind Hacks since it featured a really nice review of my blog . The blog evolved out of the 2004 book b...

Remember my post back in Marc h on the critique of "voodoo" brain science? That article has generated a tremendous amount of buzz,...

The current (December) issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law has a slew of interesting articles on sex off...

Defense may use emerging science of adolescent brain development Greg Herek, a prominent scholar in the field of prejudice studies, wrote a ...

Flexible wins epic Battle of the Batteries The Democrats have Obama versus Clinton. American Idol has the battle of the two Davids. But whoe...