Maria Konnikova
Podcast: Is the ‘bliss gene’ real?
In the interview, Maria Konnikova is back for another round of “Is That Bullshit?” Because Mike experiences less anxiety than ...
Are genes more important than practice for excelling in games, sports, and academics?
[The] age-old debate: nature versus nurture, genetics versus effort. We’ve been having it long before we knew what DNA was...[T]he ...
Is the infinite universe of Internet pornography a danger, or an asset to sexuality?
‘The widespread use of internet porn is one of the fastest-moving global experiments ever unconsciously conducted,’ the U.S. science writer ...
Why touch is so important to emotional, physical wellbeing
Touch is the first of the senses to develop in the human infant, and it remains perhaps the most emotionally ...
Disgust over ‘unnaturalness’ of GMOs prime reason for opposition
Feelings of disgust are often immune to rationality. And with good reason: evolutionarily, disgust is an incredibly adaptive, life-saving reaction. We find ...
Don’t need much sleep? Thank your genes.
Allan Pack wasn’t always a sleep expert. He started his career as a pulmonologist and came to the University of ...
Is susceptibility to procrastination genetic?
Want to hear my favorite procrastination joke? I’ll tell you later. Piers Steel, a psychologist at the University of Calgary, ...
The psychology of distrusting GMOs
Psychologists have long observed that there is a continuum in what we perceive as natural or unnatural. As the psychologist Robert Sternberg wrote in ...
