Scientific Reports
Recovery or Renewal? Time for an economic rethink
Blog by Craig Rye and Tim Jackson
Pathological risk-taking in organised crime members
What drives people to join criminal organisations? The Mafia, an archetypical Italian criminal organisation, imposes stringent rules of conduct on its members. What characteristics must they possess?
Learning in time
The story behind “A quantitative description of the transition between intuitive altruism and rational deliberation in iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma experiments” by Riccardo Gallotti and Jelena Grujić
The sense of body ownership in hypnosis
We do take for granted that we own our body and that our limbs belong to us. However, this is not the case for people affected by some neuropsychiatric disorders, who perceive the body as alien. This suggests that bodily self-consciousness has relationships with some mind/brain states.