The Suspicion System: How the social world shapes delusions Not so long ago, any decent-sized psychiatric hospital had at least two or t...

Debate: Moral justice versus risk forecasting After Kevin had brain surgery for his epilepsy, he developed an uncontrollable urge to do...

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...

Study finds problems with real-world reliability of Static-99 Evaluators differ almost half of the time in their scoring of the most widely...

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...