Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts

2004-05-22

Spanish Royal Wedding:

I noticed they use the wedding ring on the right hand - I swear, the TV just happened to be on... - We Portuguese put them on the left hand.

I do wonder which is the minority system in the world, actually are wedding rings more than a western european tradition?

2004-05-12

Nice science 1:

I've read that at Nijmegen, in Holland, scientists found that we get pissed at people that make mistakes, because inside we feel as if we made the mistakes. (the brain patterns associated with seeing a mistake are the same we experience when we realize we did one)

This sort of identification/simulation theories for explaining empathy and feelings seem to be gaining experimental support. They connect with and seem to indicate what maybe the only mechanism for how humans learn from observing others.

Cognitive sciences are fun. :-)