Neuroscience
What are the long-term effects of weed? Three experts provide their view.
TV is good for you. Article discusses research showing cable TV is having an empowering effect on women in rural India.
Stop this idiocy now. Opinion piece attacks the worth of research comparing men and women's colour preferences.
Interview with intuition expert Gerd Gigerenzer, who has a new book out: 'Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious' (free registration required).
Child psychologist Tanya Byron explains why she won't be making any more TV parenting programmes.
The nocebo effect: how expecting something will make you sick, can make you sick.
The effect of video games on cognition.
Is it possible to have too much ambition at work?
We have become a more vengeful and punitive society (opinion piece).
How to write effective emails (book review).
The effect on a couple's relationship when one person develops a mental illness (podcast).
Steve Pinker is on tour promoting his new book, The Stuff of Thought, and in Oct will be in several towns in the UK.
The sanity of hiring the mentally ill - how Hire-Ability in San Francisco helps poor people with mental illness into employment.
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In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. What an inspiration - Neuropsychologist Brenda Milner, aged 94 and still making new research discoveries about the human brain. 2. More than 40,000 people are likely...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The psychological effects of chronic illness: "...more emphasis should be given to medical conditions in training programmes for psychologists". When you revise, make sure you take practice tests...
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For when you've had enough of journal articles: Free will is not an illusion. Pretty pictures of neural connections in mice. From the Guardian: "Using genetic tricks and fluorescent proteins researchers at Harvard have individually labeled hundreds...
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For when you've had enough of journal articles: Can flies think? And Do flies have free-will? Against the medicalisation of psychosis. But Do we really need so many psychotherapists? Either way, Happy birthday Prozac! The truth about lying and laughing....
- When Women Prefer Taller Men
Women who are in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle, or who are looking for a short-term relationship, tend to prefer taller men. That’s according to Polish researchers Boguslaw Pawlowski and Grazyna Jasienska who asked 110 women to look at...
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What are the long-term effects of weed? Three experts provide their view.TV is good for you. Article discusses research showing cable TV is having an empowering effect on women in rural India.
Stop this idiocy now. Opinion piece attacks the worth of research comparing men and women's colour preferences.
Interview with intuition expert Gerd Gigerenzer, who has a new book out: 'Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious' (free registration required).
Child psychologist Tanya Byron explains why she won't be making any more TV parenting programmes.
The nocebo effect: how expecting something will make you sick, can make you sick.
The effect of video games on cognition.
Is it possible to have too much ambition at work?
We have become a more vengeful and punitive society (opinion piece).
How to write effective emails (book review).
The effect on a couple's relationship when one person develops a mental illness (podcast).
Steve Pinker is on tour promoting his new book, The Stuff of Thought, and in Oct will be in several towns in the UK.
The sanity of hiring the mentally ill - how Hire-Ability in San Francisco helps poor people with mental illness into employment.
__________________________________
- Link Feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. What an inspiration - Neuropsychologist Brenda Milner, aged 94 and still making new research discoveries about the human brain. 2. More than 40,000 people are likely...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The psychological effects of chronic illness: "...more emphasis should be given to medical conditions in training programmes for psychologists". When you revise, make sure you take practice tests...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: Free will is not an illusion. Pretty pictures of neural connections in mice. From the Guardian: "Using genetic tricks and fluorescent proteins researchers at Harvard have individually labeled hundreds...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: Can flies think? And Do flies have free-will? Against the medicalisation of psychosis. But Do we really need so many psychotherapists? Either way, Happy birthday Prozac! The truth about lying and laughing....
- When Women Prefer Taller Men
Women who are in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle, or who are looking for a short-term relationship, tend to prefer taller men. That’s according to Polish researchers Boguslaw Pawlowski and Grazyna Jasienska who asked 110 women to look at...