Expanding therapeutic care to prevent delinquency and heal traumatized youths
This is a final paper I wrote for Behavioral Public Policy, a graduate course taught by Enrique Fatas at the University of Pennsylvania.
Academic
Posts about Academic.
A Flawed Case for Inequity Aversion — Revisiting the Criticisms of Binmore and Shaked (2010)
Assessing a debate about the methodology used to support a prominent behavioral model.
Dopamine and impulsivity — more is less or more is more?
The article examines impulsivity and its connection to striatal dopamine function, indicating an inverted U-shaped relationship with treatment implications for impulse-control disorders.
Paradox of the ravens
What is the relation of the paradox of the ravens to Goodman’s new riddle of induction? Ought they to be solved in the same way?
Progress in Neuroeducation — Mackey 2019
A survey of neuroscience research on education evaluation for students with learning disabilities. The talk covers normalization, compensation, and the influence of curiosity on educational outcomes.
Rewarding reading in school
Examining how rewards can undermine intrinsic motivation to do things.
Selective Perception in Infants — Saxe 2020
Rebecca Saxe's research shows that babies are not passive learners but actively exhibit preferences for social and informative stimuli from an early age.
The Phainomena in Aristotle's De Anima
Aristotle's philosophy of science in his treatise on the soul.