Neuroscience
Approximately one year ago, a crack commando writing unit was dispersed around the world for reasons beyond their control. These men promptly collaborated and conspired via the global Interweb to produce an explosive book of psychological facts and ideas: 30-Second Psychology. That book has now been published. Today, still wanted by hidden forces, they survive as writers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire ...
Christian Jarrett, editor and contributing author. [@researchdigest]
Vaughan Bell, contributing author. [@vaughanbell]
Moheb Costandi, contributing author. [@mocost]
Dave Munger, contributing author. [@davemunger]
Tom Stafford, contributing author. [@tomstafford]
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Neuroscience
Introducing 30-Second Psychology
Christian Jarrett, editor and contributing author. [@researchdigest]
Vaughan Bell, contributing author. [@vaughanbell]
Moheb Costandi, contributing author. [@mocost]
Dave Munger, contributing author. [@davemunger]
Tom Stafford, contributing author. [@tomstafford]
More about 30-Second Psychology (also available in the USA):
"The key ideas in Psychology explained, with colour illustrations, in half a minute. Pavlov's Dogs, Psychoanalysis, Milgram's Obedience Study, and Beck's Cognitive Therapy? Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you've certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about these psychology theories to join a dinner party debate or dazzle the bar with your knowledge? 30-Second Psychology takes the top 50 strands of thinking in this fascinating field, and explains them to the general reader in half a minute, using nothing more than two pages, 300 words, and one picture. The inner workings of the human mind will suddenly seem a lot more fun, and along the way we meet many of the luminaries in the field, including William James, Aaron Beck, and (of course) Sigmund Freud. From Behaviorism to Cognitivism, what better way to get a handle on your inner demons?"
- Link Feast
In case you missed them, 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. The fascinating story of how fall out from Cold War atomic bomb tests has helped, decades later, to settle the debate over whether or not adult brains can grow new neurons....
- 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...
- Elizabeth Loftus: Prestige-enhancing Memory Distortions
I’m a psychologist and I do experiments. Well, actually, these days I help design experiments with graduate students, and the actual experimentation is carried out by a mini-army of student researchers. Typically if a publication results from these...
- Promoting Academic Writing
Interesting piece in today's New York Times about writers taking promotional book "tours" via blogs: The Author Will Take Q.’s Now By KARA JESELLA Published: September 2, 2007 [snip] Bloggers have written about books since, well, the beginning of...
- Beck Gets A Lasker
From today's Philadelphia Inquirer: Penn psychiatrist to be honored today Aaron T. Beck will receive the prestigious Lasker Award for his pioneering work in cognitive therapy. By Josh Goldstein Inquirer Staff Writer 17 September 2006 In the 1960s,...