Trouble Telling The Enemy

Do parkinsonian patients have trouble telling lies? The neurobiological basis of deceptive behaviour

Parkinson's disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder with both motor symptoms and cognitive deficits such as executive dysfunction. Over the past 100 years, a growing body of literature has suggested that patients with Parkinson's disease have characteristic personality traits such as industriousness, seriousness and inflexibility. They have also been described as 'honest', indicating tha...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

The Intimate Enemy

The significance of psychoanalysis is not only due to its specific theoretical contributions to the structure of the personality. An important side effect is the increasing attention given to every-day intimacies which fifty years ago received a limited, restricted, social, non-psychological interpretation except perhaps in literature. The United States, more than any other country, has respond...

Trouble with Overconfidence 1 Running head: TROUBLE WITH OVERCONFIDENCE The Trouble with Overconfidence

This paper presents a reconciliation of the three distinct ways in which the research literature has defined overconfidence: (1) overestimation of one’s actual performance, (2) overplacement of one’s performance relative to others, and (3) excessive precision in one’s beliefs. Experimental evidence shows that reversals of the first two (apparent underconfidence), when they occur, tend to be on ...

The enemy within

When scientists start grumbling — and we do grumble a lot — much breath gets spent on how competitive science has become. Some of this is plainly nostalgia for a non-existent time when science was pure, everyone was funded, and there was plenty of time to dabble or to think. Even allowing for nostalgia, though, it does seem that the pressure of competition is growing yearly. Scientists spend mo...