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The Village Effect

How Face-To-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier and Smarter

Career
The Brain Doesn't Lie

Susan Pinker on November 22, 2010

How can you tell if someone will really do what they say they're going to do? Only their neurologist knows for sure!

How can you tell if someone will really do what they say they're going to do? Only their neurologist knows for sure!

Trust
Reach Out and Touch Someone

Susan Pinker on November 15, 2010

Though previously considered taboo, recent research shows how physical contact increases trust between group members, and this mutual trust improves performance of the group.

Though previously considered taboo, recent research shows how physical contact increases trust between group members, and this mutual trust improves performance of the group.

Gender
Women, Computers and Engineering: It's Not All About Bias

Susan Pinker on April 19, 2010

A new report says that fewer women choose physics, technology and engineering careers due to hidden biases. But the science tells us something else entirely: most women have different interests and career preferences than men.

A new report says that fewer women choose physics, technology and engineering careers due to hidden biases. But the science tells us something else entirely: most women have different interests and career preferences than men.

Trauma
When Counseling is Dangerous

Susan Pinker on January 19, 2010

Many of us feel compelled to help after a humanitarian disaster such as Haiti's recent devastating earthquake. But  all evidence points to psychological debriefing as a risky practice that can exacerbate traumatic symptoms in adults, and is completely untested in children.

Many of us feel compelled to help after a humanitarian disaster such as Haiti's recent devastating earthquake. But  all evidence points to psychological debriefing as a risky practice that can exacerbate traumatic symptoms in adults, and is completely untested in children.

Anger
Men and Mass Killing

Susan Pinker on November 9, 2009

Who is most likely to pull out a gun in the workplace or on campus? Men, particularly extreme, socially isolated men in the prime of life, are more at risk of violence than women are at any age.

Who is most likely to pull out a gun in the workplace or on campus? Men, particularly extreme, socially isolated men in the prime of life, are more at risk of violence than women are at any age.

Highly Sensitive Person
Can Children be Shared?

Susan Pinker on October 20, 2009

It takes a special kind of open mind to speed-date an infant. This first post on the science of human attachments looks at serial parenting, and asks this provocative question: are human babies meant to be shared?

It takes a special kind of open mind to speed-date an infant. This first post on the science of human attachments looks at serial parenting, and asks this provocative question: are human babies meant to be shared?