For years, Jeremy and I have been working on bridging neurosciences and conflict resolution. We have developed what we believe is a solid theoretical and interdisciplinary framework that can help conflict resolution professionals build better processes that take into account the way the emotional, social and cognitive brains work. Nonetheless, while we were researching on...
A series of articles have been circulating on the Internet in the last few weeks, raising important and critical questions about Neurosciences, and whether they actually bring anything new to social sciences in practical terms. In a recent article in the New York Times by Alissa Quart entitled Neuroscience Under Attack, the author seems to...
As a recent immigrant to California who came from Southern Europe, some local rituals are still new to me. It is the case for the one scheduled for tomorrow: Thanksgiving. Originally created to celebrate the first harvest of the Pilgrims on the American soil , it is now a very important family gathering – and,...
You might already know that our nervous system extends to our gut – it’s called the enteric nervous system and it’s been popularized by many articles and books, such as The Second Brain. But there is something else there worth noticing there: bacteria. We have between 1013 and 1014 microorganisms in our gastrointestinal system –...
We live in a world where we have given the right to all sorts of electronically savvy service providers to surround us with constant solicitations. To exist as 21st century social animals, we are supposed to “tweet”, “blog”, “facebook”, “link in”, “skype”, phone, listen to radio, watch TV, text messages and jiggle our tablets and...
Here is a title I stumbled upon last week in my local newspaper : Brain drain starts at age 45 – not age 60. Given that I turned 48 last September, I froze and immediately started to panic (at a pace that I used to think was “quick as a flash” when I was still...
Prediction is difficult, especially about the future” – Niels Bohr (1885-1962) – Nobel Prize for Physics 1922 How reliable are the predictions of pundits? How reliable is history as a means for making forecasts about the future? In the latest edition of “Time” magazine, Glenn Beck has chosen Mohamed Bouazizi, as his “Person of the...
As a former marketing professional, I love catchy expressions and I was quite sure that the title above would motivate you to open our newsletter but I have to give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s: I have borrowed this expression from Paul Zak (if you don’t know “Dr Love”, I suggest that you have...
As you probably know, our brain is made of two hemispheres that are different at a macro and functional level. A popular misconception about brain asymmetry is illustrated in the figure on the right, which we found on the web (this is one example among many others). According to this view, linear reasoning and language...
