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Brainstorm: Of Sign Language and Combat Veterans, Part 1
John J. Medina Ph.D.
Dr. McNeill has been researching the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communications for most of his career, a subject we began discussing last entry. His work is very relevant to our ongoing conversation about nature, nurture, and human behavior.
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Brainstorm: Of Sign Language and Combat Veterans, Part 2
John J. Medina Ph.D.
In the last entry I talked about sign language, and I promised in this space to talk about combat veterans. This entry fulfills the promise (though I am also going to talk about business cards).
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Brainstorm: Of WEIRDs and SUSHIs and People Who Use Chopsticks
John J. Medina Ph.D.
Understanding the contributions that nature and nurture make to a given behavior is tricky business, even for professionals in the field. The research world is littered with heroic, but ultimately unsuccessful, attempts to tease these apart.
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Brainstorm: What Humans Can Learn From Monkeys
John J. Medina Ph.D.
We are exploring the sometimes frustrating, always fascinating distance between genes and behaviors. In this entry, I wish to illustrate a dramatic example of how nature and nurture interact, not by examining humans, but by looking at some genetic nextdoor neighbors of ours — vervet monkeys.
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Brainstorm: What Testosterone Has in Common with Schrodinger’s Cat
John J. Medina Ph.D.
People are often startled by the extent to which environment plays a part in mediating the biological processes behind their behaviors.
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