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101 delightfully original illustrated tales in verse

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Tag: Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables

Break time

Now that spring is here and the clocks have gone forward, it’s time for a break from blogging. I’ve been … More

brain science, Change of Mind, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, Science in Music, Woody Allen

Automaticity

One of the more curious mental phenomena in Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables is the one covered by the 92nd Fable, … More

automaticity, John Bargh, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, priming, Tiger Diplomacy, violence, Yale

No half-and-half affair

Asked for his opinion of ‘Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables’, a psychology professor recently offered a compliment and some suggestions before … More

neural correlates, neuroscience, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, psychology

An eagle eye

If you’ve an eagle eye, you’ll have noticed that my 101st and last Fable, ‘The King of Stingers’, is unique … More

Aesop, Aristotle, Dutton and Aron, eagle, Misattribution of arousal, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, The King of Stingers, The Scorpion and the Frog

Seeing things

I’m currently compiling a glossary of the technical terms for the 101 psychological phenomena described in ‘Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables’. … More

A Mouse's Mistake, Capgras Syndrome, Change of Mind, Face On Mars, face recognition, It, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, paranoia, pareidolia, Science in Music, Turin Shroud

And Now For Something Completely Different

To return for a moment to my point about objectivity existing only in the mind of the beholder: it amused … More

2016, Amos Tversky, Behavioural economics, Daniel Kahneman, heuristics, Michael Lewis, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, Professor Wolfram Schu;tz, Prospect Theory, The Hidden Persuaders, The Undoing Project, The Week, Vance Packard

Arrival

As it’s Christmas Day, I thought I should choose an appropriate topic, but one that’s unlikely to give too much … More

Anthropomorphism, Arrival, BBC, Christ, Christmas, Doctor Who, Gods, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Self-Obsessed Animals, Star Trek, Uncanny Valley

Mutually assured antagonism

A visitor from America this week obligingly bore out the point I made in an earlier blog about the mutual … More

Bremainers, Confirmation Bias, cormorants, democracy, Donald Trump, Jonathan Swift, Lilliputians, Matthew Parris, Mutually assured antagonism, neuron, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, Political Correctness, politics, Two Minds Made Up, White Supremicism

Of babies and bathwater

The latest addition to the ‘Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables’ channel on YouTube is number 71, ‘The Snub-Nosed Tapir’: see https://youtu.be/lPczUNgKztE. … More

checks and balances, Cultural Cognition, Donald Trump, frugality, heuristics, Hillary Clinton, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, opinion research, Presidential race, Reverse Halo Effect, Snub-Nosed Tapir

The Forer Effect

This week saw the launch of the dedicated ‘Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables’ channel on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2ect4jD. Its time came when … More

blooming buzzing confusion, Forer Effect, Myers-Briggs, Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables, Rorschach, Skeptic’s Dictionary, The Queen's Suitors, William James
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