Word: rationale
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Man is a rational animal, Aristotle declared, but experiments have demonstrated that reason is not a gift of our species alone. Last December, researchers reported that monkeys were almost as good as college students at arithmetic (at least when the arithmetic involved adding dots on a screen). And our rationality...
The last time you had sex, there was arguably not a thought in your head. O.K., if it was very familiar sex with a very familiar partner, the kind that--truth be told--you probably have most of the time, your mind may have wandered off to such decidedly nonerotic...
The thought of a loved one can turn our wits upside down, ratchet up our heart rate, impel us to slay dragons and write corny songs. We may become morose, obsessive, even violent. Lovesickness has been blamed on the moon, on the devil, but whatever is behind it, it doesn...
The last time you had sex, there was arguably not a thought in your head. O.K., if it was very familiar sex with a very familiar partner, the kind that-truth be told-you probably have most of the time, your mind may have wandered off to such decidedly nonerotic...
The Moral Brain Scientists are overreaching if they think their mapping of the human brain explains moral behavior [Dec. 3]. If one section of the cortex "lights up" when we are solving dilemmas that engage us emotionally, and another when we are making cool, rational judgments, so what? The observed...