Neuroscience
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits in psychology:
"What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years ago shocked the world. How do the guards, prisoners and researchers in the Stanford Prison Experiment feel about it now?" (Stanford Magazine). And catch Zimbardo, one of the guards, and a prisoner speaking to BBC Radio 4.
Why cities are like brains. Jason Goldman explains on his Thoughtful Animal blog. His post is part of a larger special issue of Scientific American, all about the science of cities, including plenty of psychology.
Get your diary out: more psychology at the One Culture festival of literature and arts at the Royal Society in October.
Also, this month, there's a show at the Edinburgh Fringe inspired by the amnesiac HM, plus a chance to meet neuroscientists who worked with HM, and who sliced up his brain (after he died, in 2008).
The proportion of scientific papers being retracted has increased sharply over recent years. Neuro-writer Jonah Lehrer reflects on why.
Even urban pockets of greenery can have a rejuvenating effect on well-being, says Wray Herbert for the Association for Psychological Science.
Some people are affected for longer than others by positive and negative events - what Alex Fradera for the Occupational Digest blog calls "Emotional Hangovers".
False confessions: "People have a strange and worrying tendency to admit to things they have not, in fact, done" says the Economist.
We've updated our round-up of the psych commentary on the English riots.
A new 2-part series on BBC Radio 4 explores human cultural and genetic evolution and how they interact (features Steve Pinker and others).
The contents of visual working memory can affect our perception of incoming sensory stimuli - says an intriguing post from Mo Costandi at his Neurophilosophy blog.
A hair-thin electronic skin that can monitor brain activity and enable remote computer control, plus lots more. Ed Yong on an exciting technological innovation.
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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...
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Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits in the world of psychology: "All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen I'll make you see That this is thriller, thriller night" Michael Jackson. Why do we like scaring ourselves?...
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Our round-up of the latest juicy titbits in the world of psychology: All week long BBC Radio 3 has been running a series of programmes "The Darkest Hour" on insomnia. The latest issue of the American Psychological Association's monthly mag, Monitor,...
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Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits from the world of psychology: The Greenfield saga continues. Recall that Baroness Susan Greenfield recently restated to New Scientist her fears that technology is harming children's brains, and that Professor...
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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...
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"What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years ago shocked the world. How do the guards, prisoners and researchers in the Stanford Prison Experiment feel about it now?" (Stanford Magazine). And catch Zimbardo, one of the guards, and a prisoner speaking to BBC Radio 4.
Why cities are like brains. Jason Goldman explains on his Thoughtful Animal blog. His post is part of a larger special issue of Scientific American, all about the science of cities, including plenty of psychology.
Get your diary out: more psychology at the One Culture festival of literature and arts at the Royal Society in October.
Also, this month, there's a show at the Edinburgh Fringe inspired by the amnesiac HM, plus a chance to meet neuroscientists who worked with HM, and who sliced up his brain (after he died, in 2008).
The proportion of scientific papers being retracted has increased sharply over recent years. Neuro-writer Jonah Lehrer reflects on why.
Even urban pockets of greenery can have a rejuvenating effect on well-being, says Wray Herbert for the Association for Psychological Science.
Some people are affected for longer than others by positive and negative events - what Alex Fradera for the Occupational Digest blog calls "Emotional Hangovers".
False confessions: "People have a strange and worrying tendency to admit to things they have not, in fact, done" says the Economist.
We've updated our round-up of the psych commentary on the English riots.
A new 2-part series on BBC Radio 4 explores human cultural and genetic evolution and how they interact (features Steve Pinker and others).
The contents of visual working memory can affect our perception of incoming sensory stimuli - says an intriguing post from Mo Costandi at his Neurophilosophy blog.
A hair-thin electronic skin that can monitor brain activity and enable remote computer control, plus lots more. Ed Yong on an exciting technological innovation.
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If you prefer your psychology news on the fly, follow @researchdigest. For links to eye-catching studies that we didn't have time to Digest for you, go to Extras; for links to the latest journal special issues in psychology, try our aptly named Special Issue Spotter.
- 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 the latest juicy tit-bits in the world of psychology: "All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen I'll make you see That this is thriller, thriller night" Michael Jackson. Why do we like scaring ourselves?...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy titbits in the world of psychology: All week long BBC Radio 3 has been running a series of programmes "The Darkest Hour" on insomnia. The latest issue of the American Psychological Association's monthly mag, Monitor,...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits from the world of psychology: The Greenfield saga continues. Recall that Baroness Susan Greenfield recently restated to New Scientist her fears that technology is harming children's brains, and that Professor...
- Feast
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...