Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
More clues to successful ageing from the study of "super-agers" (previous Digest post on Super-Agers).
Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness?
Being men with eating disorders: Perspectives of male eating disorder service-users
Improving multi-tasking ability through action video games
Modifying Memory: Selectively Enhancing and Updating Personal Memories for a Museum Tour by Reactivating Them
The effects of news stories on the stigma of mental illness.
The home advantage in individual sports: An augmented review
Dr. Phil and Psychology Today as Self-Help Treatments of Mental Illness: A Content Analysis of Popular Psychology Programming.
Perspective Taking With Future Humans Improves Environmental Engagement
Women more likely to share their number with a handsome stranger when it's sunny.
The desire for healthy limb amputation: structural brain correlates and clinical features of xenomelia.
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
- Blogging For Mental Health
To coincide with the Mental Health Month Blog Party organised by the APA, I've collated some highlights from our coverage of mental health issues here at the BPS Research Digest. What is mental illness? In 2010 I reported on a Psychological Medicine...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: a critical review of the evidence base. [open access] Why men and women dehumanize sexually objectified women. "According to our findings,...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The neural correlates of aesthetic appreciation: "We present here the most comprehensive analysis to date of neuroaesthetic processing ..." Why do we take such a lenient view of white-collar criminals?...
- Magazine Reports On Eating Disorders Are Superficial And Misleading
The propagation of the ‘thin ideal’ by glossy magazines is held by many to be partly responsible for the prevalence of eating disorders among women in western society. Ironically, for many people, those same magazines have become their main source...
- Body Image - It's 'healthy' People Who Are Deluded
We’re all going to die and there’s nothing we can do about it. Depressing? Well, it’s been argued that depressed people are the sane ones because they see the world for how it really is. Now consider this – a study has found people with eating...
Neuroscience
Extras
More clues to successful ageing from the study of "super-agers" (previous Digest post on Super-Agers).
Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness?
Being men with eating disorders: Perspectives of male eating disorder service-users
Improving multi-tasking ability through action video games
Modifying Memory: Selectively Enhancing and Updating Personal Memories for a Museum Tour by Reactivating Them
The effects of news stories on the stigma of mental illness.
The home advantage in individual sports: An augmented review
Dr. Phil and Psychology Today as Self-Help Treatments of Mental Illness: A Content Analysis of Popular Psychology Programming.
Perspective Taking With Future Humans Improves Environmental Engagement
Women more likely to share their number with a handsome stranger when it's sunny.
The desire for healthy limb amputation: structural brain correlates and clinical features of xenomelia.
_________________________________
Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
- Blogging For Mental Health
To coincide with the Mental Health Month Blog Party organised by the APA, I've collated some highlights from our coverage of mental health issues here at the BPS Research Digest. What is mental illness? In 2010 I reported on a Psychological Medicine...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents: a critical review of the evidence base. [open access] Why men and women dehumanize sexually objectified women. "According to our findings,...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: The neural correlates of aesthetic appreciation: "We present here the most comprehensive analysis to date of neuroaesthetic processing ..." Why do we take such a lenient view of white-collar criminals?...
- Magazine Reports On Eating Disorders Are Superficial And Misleading
The propagation of the ‘thin ideal’ by glossy magazines is held by many to be partly responsible for the prevalence of eating disorders among women in western society. Ironically, for many people, those same magazines have become their main source...
- Body Image - It's 'healthy' People Who Are Deluded
We’re all going to die and there’s nothing we can do about it. Depressing? Well, it’s been argued that depressed people are the sane ones because they see the world for how it really is. Now consider this – a study has found people with eating...