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http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/09/elizabeth_loftus_interview_false_memory_research_on_eyewitnesses_child_abuse.single.html It's scary that people have been convicted based on "repressed memories", but even other things can be misremembered, or events that...

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Maybe you have seen this already, but it was new to me. Emily Yoffe, aka "The Human Guine Pig", is taking some less than desireable jobs or activities and writing about them. In this link, she gets a job as a phone psychic. She tried a day as a mime (no training), took a visit to a plastic...

Just finished reading Steven Pinker's book. Very interesting; I'd put it on the "must read" list for any skeptic. The title refers to the notion that there is essentially no Human Nature. Begining around the turn of the century, the social sciences began to embrace this idea fully, and it...

I know there must be many of you JREFers that either read this book from Steven Pinker or read something about it. Post any reviews here.

Do you believe humans are born with a blank slate? I don't.