Malleable Mind

Education

The Geography of Learning: How Culture Shapes Memory

Daniel Casasanto Ph.D. on May 8, 2012

Study shows cultural attitudes can shape what people learn. Asians remember the forest, Americans and Europeans remember the trees.

Study shows cultural attitudes can shape what people learn. Asians remember the forest, Americans and Europeans remember the trees.

Motivation

Emotion Is Reversed in Left-Handers' Brains

Daniel Casasanto Ph.D. on May 3, 2012

The way we use our hands may determine how emotions are organized in our brains. Discovery that approach motivation reverses hemispheres between right-and left-handers may lead to safer neural therapies for depression.

The way we use our hands may determine how emotions are organized in our brains. Discovery that approach motivation reverses hemispheres between right-and left-handers may lead to safer neural therapies for depression.

Cognition

Our Malleable Minds

Daniel Casasanto Ph.D. on April 30, 2012

How is the diversity of the human experience reflected in the mind? What is universal about the concepts we form, and what depends on the particulars of our physical and social experiences? Malleable Mind will explore emerging answers to these questions.

How is the diversity of the human experience reflected in the mind? What is universal about the concepts we form, and what depends on the particulars of our physical and social experiences? Malleable Mind will explore emerging answers to these questions.