Cognitive Neuroscience Links 08/04/2009

• Mind, brain and self in the age of Facebook

  A couple of years ago we organised a salon with Helen Birtwistle of the Institute of Ideas on the meaning of friendship, and the then quite new social networking sites such as Facebook. A US survey in 2004 had found that up to 25% of people claimed that they had no real intimates. Yet by 2007 there was networking technology where people would ask: ‘Can I be your friend?’ What is it all about? Why is it so important?

  tags: facebook, brain, mind, self, cogsci

• Review - Moral Psychology, Volume 3 - Philosophy

  Review - Moral Psychology, Volume 3
  The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development
  by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
  MIT Press, 2008
  Review by Luc Faucher, Ph.D.
  Aug 4th 2009 (Volume 13, Issue 32)

  tags: moral-psychology, cogsci

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