Garth Kroeker

I strongly recommend a new book by Cambridge psychologist Sander van der Linden, entitled Foolproof: why misinformation infects our minds an...

This is an update of a post I originally wrote in 2008. The brain, or the mind, or your life, is like a garden. It has grown for many ye...

I originally published this post in March, 2009.  I was just looking at it again today, while browsing through my blog...I thought I would r...

So, in conclusion, Pinker's book is very important and can be broadly applied not only to understanding and working towards continued re...

The first section of Pinker's book is an exhaustive review of violence rates throughout history.  This even includes looking beyond our ...

I have just finished Steven Pinker's book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined .  I think it is a masterpiece o...

There are various research articles done in the past which describe rates of change in psychotherapy patients, some studies for example desc...

The history of spoken and written language is a very interesting field of study.  The manner in which languages evolve over time is similar,...

I've alluded to the field of "behavioural economics" in other posts.  I think this is a very interesting extension of social a...

This is the first in a series of posts in which I'd like to discuss figurative or literal comparisons and overlaps between psychiatry an...

It requires a great deal of work to bring about psychological change. The brain is a dynamic organ, its development influenced by genetic ...

The Olympic games cost billions of dollars to prepare for, and to host. Therefore, it has been a subject of controversy, particularly becau...

Well, you may accuse me of having sentimental tastes in film, but I really did enjoy the 1998 movie with Robert Redford, called The Horse Wh...

In an amusing study by LE Williams and JA Bargh, published in Science in 2008, subjects exposed to warm objects behaved in a manner which w...