Psychology & Intimacy Beyond the Lizard Brain: How New Research is Rewriting the History of Neural Evolution and Inspiring the Future of Artificial Intelligence September 26, 2026 Rebecca Shoemaker For generations, popular culture and introductory psychology textbooks have relied on a deceptively neat narrative to explain the eternal tug-of-war between human impulse and rational thought. This paradigm posits that…
Psychology & Intimacy Beyond the Lizard Brain: How Neural Wiring Trade-Offs Are Rewriting the Story of Evolution and Inspiring Next-Generation AI September 18, 2026 Rebecca Shoemaker For generations, popular psychology and cultural narratives have framed human decision-making as an eternal tug-of-war between competing internal forces. On one side sits reason, deliberation, and intellectual restraint; on the…
Psychology & Intimacy Scientists challenge a 70-year-old “lizard brain” myth September 11, 2026 Rebecca Shoemaker For generations, popular culture and introductory psychology textbooks have relied on a deceptively neat narrative to explain the inner conflicts of human decision-making. Whenever reason battles emotion—whether a person is…
