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The Blog
Mind Matters is about why people do what they do, how we know things (including how we know why people do what they do) and what we should do with this expanding collection of evidence about human behavior.

The Book
Us and Them: The Science of Identity came out in paperback, with a new preface, in 2008.

Want an autographed copy of the book? Email me (address above left) and I'll send you a signed book plate.

Recent Writing

New York City

Spike Lee in Red Hook
The director goes kayaking in Brooklyn

Us and Them 2008 Edition

A sample of Us and Them from Google Books
Preface to the Paperback Edition

Essay

The myth of ``Peak Attention''
Are we really running out of attention?

Eliot Spitzer and Psychologists' Changing Concept of Conformity
Is it always the lone maverick who's right, when s/he refuses to play along? That's how American psychologists have taught it, but recently they have been taking another look at conformism.

Other Species

A piece about migrating birds, New York City, and the scientists who study them both --

Fiction

The Punishment Fits the Crime
A genomic nightmare