Posts tagged: Biology

Animal Hypnosis And Trance

This great BBC clip shows how certain animals can be put into hypnotic trance. Evolutionary biologists theorize that these states may be used as a defense mechanism to avoid predators.

Sunday November 1st, 2009 in , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

What Makes People Happy?

Happiness is something we like to believe we know and know well, but in practice it can become quite a difficult and elusive thing to obtain. Recently, positive psychologists and other researchers have begun to ask the question, “What is it that makes an individual truly happy?”

Tuesday September 15th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »