by Eric Haseltine | Apr 27, 2019 | Psychology Today
Russia’s espionage efforts exploited evolutionary psychology. The Mueller report describes various activities that Russian intelligence pursued to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, including hacking emails, trolling social media sites and covertly taking... 
by Eric Haseltine | Jun 22, 2018 | Psychology Today
You don’t have to be a savant to have savant-like abilities. In her post Tap Into the Inner Genius You Didn’t Know You Had, Dr. Chris Gilbert described Acquired Savant Syndrome, a rare condition that sometimes occurs after trauma to the Left Anterior Temporal Lobe... 
by Eric Haseltine | May 5, 2018 | Psychology Today
Exceedingly strange but true factoids about our nervous system. Werner Heisenberg, a giant of 20th century physics said, “Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”Werner, whose name adorns the famous... 
by Eric Haseltine | Feb 20, 2018 | Psychology Today
Gender differences in cognition and perception are real John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, argues that the two sexes have fundamentally different ways of thinking and communicating. Since a growing body of research supports Gray’s premise—... 
by Eric Haseltine | Feb 20, 2018 | Psychology Today
Have you heard the one about the agnostic insomniac dyslexic who stayed awake pondering the existence of Dog? If not, you’ve got a fresh joke for the next cocktail party. But when you spin this yarn over a glass of Chablis, be sure to add that it’s flawed: Dyslexia is...
Dr. Eric Haseltine is an author, futurist, and neuroscientist. He has held senior executive positions in private industry and the public sector, including serving as the associate director and CTO for national intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Eric holds 15 patents in optics, special effects, and electronic media. He has published in Discover magazine, Brain Research and Society for Neuroscience Proceedings, and Psychology Today. His books include Long Fuse, Big Bang, The Listening Cure, with Dr. Chris Gilbert, and Brain Safari.