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Show us a collection of bouncing balls and we hallucinate agency; a glance at a stuffed animal and we endow it with a mood; I\u2019m convinced Siri doesn\u2019t like me. The point is that we are constantly translating our visual perceptions into a theory of mind, as we attempt to imagine the internal states of teddy bears, microchips and perfect strangers.","authors":"Jonah Lehrer","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Wired","framebuster":false,"id":"wired","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"1","title":"Stockbrokers More Competitive, Willing To Take Risks Than Psychopaths","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/26/stockbroker-psychopath_n_981950.html","date":"2011/09/27","id":7921337,"story_type":"Research","quote":"Various studies have suggested that a certain kind of psychological profile gravitates toward the fast-paced, high-pressure environment of the trading floor -- and that this profile probably has more than a little in common with psychopathic personality, a clinical condition marked by gregariousness, impulsiveness, dishonesty and lack of empathy.","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Huffington Post","framebuster":false,"id":"huffington_post","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.3","num_reviews":"2","title":"With great graphs comes great responsibility","url":"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/with-great-graphs-comes-great-responsibility/2011/08/25/gIQAxKdZNK_blog.html?referrer=newstrust","date":"2011/09/13","id":7749644,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Want to convince someone of something? Show them a graph. At least, that\u2019s what political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler found in a series of experiments testing the best ways to correct factual misinformation. 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While the American people overwhelmingly support a solution to the debt ceiling impasse that includes a mix of tax hikes on the rich and cuts to the federal budget, the Tea Party GOP is deaf to their concerns.","authors":"Chauncey DeVega","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"AlterNet","framebuster":false,"id":"alternet","ownership":"ind","type":"online","is_public":true}},{"rating":"2.0","num_reviews":"0","title":"Teaching Empathy to the \u2018Me\u2019 Generation","url":"http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture/teaching-the-me-generation-to-care-33824/","date":"2011/07/18","id":7064146,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"A Midwestern university experiments in teaching empathy not merely through classroom curriculum, but by having students live the lives of the working poor. The six participating students and their community partners are introduced in turn. Diana Crandall, a first-year psychology major in a smart black jacket and tie, talks about the children she worked with through the Children\u2019s Hunger Alliance.\n\u201cI know that I can\u2019t walk away from this and be the same person I was before.\u201d","authors":"Eric Leake","source":{"rating":"3.9","name":"Miller-McCune","framebuster":false,"id":"miller_mccune","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.7","num_reviews":"1","title":"Mass Psychosis in the US","url":"http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/20117313948379987.html","date":"2011/07/13","id":7008089,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux.","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"Aljazeera","framebuster":false,"id":"aljazeera","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"4","title":"The Optimism Bias","url":"http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2074067,00.html?xid=fbshare","date":"2011/07/02","id":6878114,"story_type":"Special Report","quote":"We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds, pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic. On average, we expect things to turn out better than they wind up being. People hugely underestimate their chances of getting divorced, losing their job or being diagnosed with cancer; expect their children to be extraordinarily gifted; envision themselves achieving more than their peers; and overestimate their likely life span (sometimes by 20 years or more).\r\nThe belief that the future will be much better than the past and present is known as the optimism bias. It abides in every race, region and socioeconomic bracket. Schoolchildren playing when-I-grow-up are rampant optimists, but so are grownups: a 2005 study found that adults over 60 are just as likely to see the glass half full as young adults.","authors":"Ali Sharot","source":{"rating":"3.5","name":"Time","framebuster":false,"id":"time","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.5","num_reviews":"3","title":"PTSD Affecting U.S. Soldiers More Than British","url":"http://www.miller-mccune.com/health/ptsd-affecting-more-american-soldiers-than-british-32096/?UA-3354517-1","date":"2011/06/23","id":6762784,"story_type":"Research","quote":"Combat stress is still a murky and sometimes taboo element of soldiering, but one of the strangest discoveries is that the strain isn\u2019t evenly spread among vets from different countries. 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