Comments on: Parasites On the Mind

By: 10 bloggers explican lo que han aprendido escribiendo y leyendo ciencia en blogs « Tall & Cute

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:57:19 +0000

[...] aprendido multitud de cosas, y casi todas muy interesantes. Por ejemplo leyendo el blog de Carl Zimmer descubrí el trabajo de Carlos Navarrete (especialista en la psicología del prejuicio, estereotipo y actitudes intergrupales) sobre la [...]

By: Lo último en psicología especulativa: la xenofobia protectora @ :: PlanetaInteresante.com ::

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:39:48 +0000

[...] pesados, Phil Plait de Bad Astronomy y Carl Zimmer (colaborador habitual del New York Times). En el blog de este último he leído sorprendido unos párrafos acerca de una teoría desarrollada por el psicólogo de la [...]

By: Lo último en psicología especulativa: la xenofobia protectora | Maikelnai's blog

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:57:01 +0000

By: SebastesMan

SebastesMan — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:25:02 +0000

Wouldn’t it be more likely that there’s some protective circuitry that’s being triggered? It seems to me that the protective instinct is against perceived physical danger rather than some amorphous invisible threat.

By: Thor

Thor — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:15:39 +0000

“Pregnancy causes hatred toward foreigners.” See? Thats the problem. Thats why I’m not having kids.

My statistics professor would have the fits if he saw the study.

By: Uncle Al

Uncle Al — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:31:32 +0000

The 19th Amendment was and is a national disaster, ditto psychology. Reality is empirical. Masculine greed creates the world, feminine envy does not.

By: Bob O'H

Bob O'H — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:14:01 +0000

I can’t see how the link to disease is made in the Navarrete work, other than by the sort of process we laugh at in creationists.

I agree wholeheartedly with this:
“At this point the evidence remains circumstantial, and the whole concept is still a fairly speculative hypothesis. But it is one worth tracking, because its implications could be huge.”
and I hope they get out of the lab and away from undergrad psychology subjects soon.

By: Christie

Christie — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:24:26 +0000

Wow, that’s really interesting research! Thanks for sharing it!