Brain Mind and Consciousness Lab

Excellent work from Ashar and Wager at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Their naturalistic fMRI approach to investigating the nuances of empathic care and distress will undoubtedly inform our lab's work.

Brain Imaging Reveals Neural Roots of Caring Researchers use neuroimaging to identify brain patters associated with feelings of empathy that are predictable and consistent across individuals.

A political take on our paper in the USA
http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/dogmatism-vs-thinking-28072017/

Study analyzes why some people are so sure they're right -- even when evidence shows they're right After he won the elections, President Donald Trump said that at least three million votes were illegally cast against him. The statement came out of nowher

UK Independent newspaper
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/religious-people-beliefs-cling-contradict-evidence-facts-moral-compass-research-athiests-analytical-a7863446.html

Study shows why religious people always think they are right Religious people "cling" to certain beliefs in the face of evidence because those views are closely tied to their moral compasses, new studies have suggested. Dogmatic individuals hold confidently to their faith even when contradicted by experts because those beliefs have "emotional resonance," rese...

UK telegraph newspaper on our recent dogmatism study
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/28/dogmatic-atheists-think-right-religion-study/

Why dogmatic atheists think they are right about religion - study Atheists may struggle to see anything positive about religion because unemotional logic rules their brains, a new study suggests.

Core lab out for lunch after setting up new lab space

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/6l0j36/antagonistic_relationship_between_two_neural/

Antagonistic relationship between two neural networks in our brain - TPN and DMN - (partially) explains the insoluble nature of perennial philosophical problems. The neural antagonism might actually 'generate' the competing viewpoints. • r/science 18 points and 2 comments so far on reddit

Please take a look!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/103426344/neuroscience-research-to-inspire-effective-leaders?ref=email

Neuroscience Research to Inspire Effective Leadership Brain research that helps create effective and inspiring leaders, by balancing two opposing ways of thinking: empathy and task focus.

We are about to launch a crowd source funding campaign! My University's first for research funds. Always innovating. Please keep a look out and consider supporting the use of Neuroscience to Inspire Effective Leadership, a collaboration between Anthony I Jack and Richard E. Boyatzis.

new paper!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140324104522.htm

Leaders wired to be task-focused or team-builders, but can be both Academics have written about distinctions between a task-oriented leader and a social-emotional leader for 50 years. But new research strongly suggests the distinction has a foundation in our brains -- which allows us to be either analytical or empathetic, but not both at the same time -- researcher...

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