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Most of all, the amygdala loathes unpredictability of the kind we are currently enduring. Lab experiments with rats and humans show that both species prefer predictable electric shocks over unpredictable shocks. That's because, on a normal day, the brain works by following shortcuts. We recognize patterns in order to make split-second judgments about what we are seeing. Shortcuts are ruthlessly efficient, which is important for an organ that only uses about 40 watts of power per operation. But the more uncertainty we face, the more shortcuts our brains use. And the shortcuts lead to a slew of predictable...
...global conflict research non-profit organization is planning to create a joint Southeast Asian Peace lab with Paramadina University in Indonesia with the aid of the Harvard School of Public Health, according to officials at the universities. The Peace Lab—sponsored by the International Association for Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research—will seek to educate individuals involved in conflict management by studying Indonesia’s history of conflict resolution, according to Claude Bruderlein, who directs the School of Public Health’s Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. Though Harvard has been intimately...
...army men. In spite of his severe and progressing condition, Friedman remained committed to being a normal college student. On top of his regular course load during his freshman year (his illness forced him to scale back slightly on his classes this fall), Friedman worked at a cancer research lab at the Medical School, wrote for the Harvard Science review, and, on a whim, joined the Hapkido club with Schaaf. Friedman also maintained a close relationship with a girlfriend who goes to school in his home state of Connecticut. “I didn’t know until afterwards...
...tech guts on the ground, high-tech snooping in the sky. As Ferris lays his life on the line for another scam out in the desert, Hoffman gets a remote overhead view through the Predator surveillance system. He might be God watching his creatures, or a lab technician staring down at the rats in his maze...
...1990s, psychologist and social scientist Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard University co-created what's known as the implicit-association test (IAT), a way of exploring the instant connections the brain draws between races and traits. Previously administered only in the lab but now available online (at implicit.harvard.edu) the IAT asks people to pair pictures of white or black faces with positive words like joy, love, peace and happy or negative ones like agony, evil, hurt and failure. Speed is everything, since the survey tests automatic associations. When respondents are told to link the desirable traits to whites and the undesirable...