Neuroscience
Links to the best psychology and neuroscience writing and broadcasting, compiled for your weekend pleasure:
The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine is online (browse the contents or view the free preview). It includes an open-access feature on self-control by Roy Baumeister.
You can also listen to Baumeister's recent talk at the RSA in London.
How are you going to read all these links? Fear not: This Saturday's Guardian comes with a free supplement on time management (also online).
New Yorker podcast of Jonah Lehrer explaining why brain storming doesn't work, but coffee breaks and criticism do. These ideas and more are in Lehrer's forthcoming book: "Imagine: How Creativity Works". I've covered similar ground on the Digest. Check out these previous posts: Why do we still believe in group brainstorming? Forget brainstorming - try brain writing! and Coffee helps women cope with stressful meetings but has the opposite effect on men.
Tali Sharot, author of The Optimism Bias was another recent speaker at the RSA - listen to the audio.
A new book that's worth a look: "Together The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation" by Richard Sennett.
Another new book that's worth a look: "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking" by Susan Cain.
BBC Radio 3 have broadcast a series of shorts about phonophobia - the fear and intolerance of noise.
A new video collection website features dozens of lectures for school students by university researchers.
Catch it while you can "Freud vs. Jung" from BBC Radio 4 is available for just one more day.
John Gray argues why Freud "the last great Enlightenment thinker" has gone out of fashion.
This could be Jung's century argues Jungian analyst Andrew Samuels.
This interest in Freud and Jung is due to the forthcoming release of A Dangerous Method, which charts the relationship between the two men.
Britons are more dishonest than they used to be, apparently. Or maybe just more honest about their dishonesty?
Go buy this week's New Scientist magazine if you can - it has features on the effects of space on the brain (see here also) and "orchid children" (kids who are vulnerable to neglect but who thrive in a nourishing environment).
Newly posted TEDx talk: Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner
A neuropsychoanalytic approach to the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs.
What goes on in the mind of a sniper?
Psychology professor Graham Davey (an expert in experimental psychopathology) has started a new blog.
Philosopher Roger Scruton with a long-form essay on the nature/nurture debate, in which he responds to recent books by Prinz, Eagleman and Greenfield.
Do women feel more pain than men? (see here also).
BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour had a special episode on the psychology of friendship.
Did evolution domesticate the bonobo?
Skeptikai explodes some myths about "right-brains" and "left-brains".
Heart disease patients who take their placebo pills are less likely to die.
A sad twist to a classic case study in psychology: Was Little Albert neurologically impaired?
That's all - have a great weekend!
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
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The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine is online (browse the contents or view the free preview). It includes an open-access feature on self-control by Roy Baumeister.
You can also listen to Baumeister's recent talk at the RSA in London.
How are you going to read all these links? Fear not: This Saturday's Guardian comes with a free supplement on time management (also online).
New Yorker podcast of Jonah Lehrer explaining why brain storming doesn't work, but coffee breaks and criticism do. These ideas and more are in Lehrer's forthcoming book: "Imagine: How Creativity Works". I've covered similar ground on the Digest. Check out these previous posts: Why do we still believe in group brainstorming? Forget brainstorming - try brain writing! and Coffee helps women cope with stressful meetings but has the opposite effect on men.
Tali Sharot, author of The Optimism Bias was another recent speaker at the RSA - listen to the audio.
A new book that's worth a look: "Together The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation" by Richard Sennett.
Another new book that's worth a look: "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking" by Susan Cain.
BBC Radio 3 have broadcast a series of shorts about phonophobia - the fear and intolerance of noise.
A new video collection website features dozens of lectures for school students by university researchers.
Catch it while you can "Freud vs. Jung" from BBC Radio 4 is available for just one more day.
John Gray argues why Freud "the last great Enlightenment thinker" has gone out of fashion.
This could be Jung's century argues Jungian analyst Andrew Samuels.
This interest in Freud and Jung is due to the forthcoming release of A Dangerous Method, which charts the relationship between the two men.
Britons are more dishonest than they used to be, apparently. Or maybe just more honest about their dishonesty?
Go buy this week's New Scientist magazine if you can - it has features on the effects of space on the brain (see here also) and "orchid children" (kids who are vulnerable to neglect but who thrive in a nourishing environment).
Newly posted TEDx talk: Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner
A neuropsychoanalytic approach to the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs.
What goes on in the mind of a sniper?
Psychology professor Graham Davey (an expert in experimental psychopathology) has started a new blog.
Philosopher Roger Scruton with a long-form essay on the nature/nurture debate, in which he responds to recent books by Prinz, Eagleman and Greenfield.
Do women feel more pain than men? (see here also).
BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour had a special episode on the psychology of friendship.
Did evolution domesticate the bonobo?
Skeptikai explodes some myths about "right-brains" and "left-brains".
Heart disease patients who take their placebo pills are less likely to die.
A sad twist to a classic case study in psychology: Was Little Albert neurologically impaired?
That's all - have a great weekend!
__
Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: In an open-access feature on Toilet Psychology for The Psychologist, Nick Haslam argues that psychologists should stop averting their eyes from the bathroom. "In 30 years of studying the...
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Will they ever let him rest? Researchers in the USA attempt to simulate the damage suffered by Phineas Gage to the white-matter tracts of his brain (no easy feat given that Gage's brain...
- Feast
Our round-up of links to the latest and best psych writing and broadcasting: The Sherlock Holmes of neuroscience, VS Ramachandran, wrote a piece about case studies for The Telegraph. The first 2012 issue of The British Journal of Psychology is free to...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest psychology links from around the web: Tips from psychologists on how to maintain focus at work (New York Times). Don't worry, reading the Digest blog definitely counts as work. Facebook users average just 3.74 degrees of...
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Introducing a new Digest feature: "Feast", our occasional round-up of links to recent psychology news, gossip, podcasts, blog-posts and radio/tv shows: BBC 2's Newsnight had a featurette on memory on Wednesday evening (from 30 minutes, 40 seconds...