Comments on: Why Our Brains Stick Their Heads in the Sand (Metaphorically) When We Hear Bad News

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:39:05 +0000

This is probably a really interesting article, but I just don’t feel like reading it.

By: John Lerch

John Lerch — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:59:44 +0000

Floodmouse is 100% relevant. This article says NOTHING about Why we can’t remember bad news. It tells us HOW we fail to remember bad news. You would think a writer about such stuff would remember at some time or other the DIFFERENCE between WHY and HOW.

By: Su

Su — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:20:08 +0000

Of course it does, or we’d all be only children. If I remembered accurately what childbirth was like I would never had had a second (or third) baby. If I accurately remembered the horror stories everyone told me prior to getting pregnant, I may not have even had the first.

By: floodmouse

floodmouse — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:25:30 +0000

Does this “la la la I can’t hear you” effect have any adaptive value? I’m wondering if we have a psychological need to repress bad news in order to keep functioning. Chronic depression people seem to be immobilized by any kind of bad news, even the ordinary stuff that doesn’t slow most people down. Anyway, I still think brain training (behavioral & through biofeedback) is healthier than drugs or zapping someone with a strong magnetic field.

By: wilzard

wilzard — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:15:09 +0000

Curious if people with dunning-kruger have a misshapen inferior frontal gyrus…

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:55:11 +0000

Hmmm. Given this info, I wonder if the inferior frontal gyrus has ever been implicated in chronic depression?