The Mind Assesses Aggression – Russia vs the Ukraine: A Mind Genomics Exploration

Abstract

We introduce a system to rapidly explore a topic, focusing both on the direct conscious judgment of information (cognition), and on the time it takes the mind to process the same information (neuroprocessing.) The system begins with the experimental design of easily constructed mixtures of messages. With human respondents, the system measures the cognitive response to these mixtures (ratings), and at the same time, the processing rate of these same mixtures (response-time to assign a rating.) The system is affordable and scalable, working with as few as 10 respondents to as many as several thousand. The outcome data reveal what messages are important, and the response-time to process these same messages. The analysis is virtually automatic, providing a simple, readily used new tool to study decision making. All the tools are standard, easily used by professionals and novices alike, with the results immediately presented in the format of data tables and a PowerPoint® report ready for distribution.