Neuroscience
We trawled the web for this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links:
Fifty Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid: A List of Inaccurate, Misleading, Misused, Ambiguous, and Logically Confused Words and Phrases
Clinical Psychologist Scott Lilienfeld (co-author of 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology and Brainwashed) and his colleagues hope their list will "promote clear thinking and clear writing among students and teachers of psychological science".
After Damning Torture Report, Psychology Fights For Its Soul
At a huge meeting in Toronto, psychologists are grappling with their role in the U.S. government’s use of torture. “We’ve got a fire in our house, and it’s a devastating fire,” one psychologist told BuzzFeed News. (Digest editor's last minute update: the APA has just announced that its council has voted to ban psychologists' involvement in national security interrogations).
Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The shortlist was announced this week and includes The Man Who Couldn't Stop, by David Adam about his (and other people's) experience of OCD. You can read the opening chapter for free.
666 Evil (audio)
This week, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the 666th episode of the Moral Maze, focused on the apt subject of evil: "As our understanding of psychology and the neurosciences has developed what role should the notion of evil have in our moral, political, and legal thinking?"
Welcome to "I Got a Mind to Tell You"
Emotion expert Joseph LeDoux has launched a new blog for Psychology Today.
Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach
BBC Radio 4 begins a new run of Mind Changers, presented by Claudia Hammond.
Memory and Music at the BBC Proms
At The Psychologist, Professor Susan Hallam MBE reviews a musical performance and a lecture from Professor Daniel Levitin.
The Braggart's Dilemma: How to Promote Yourself Without Being a Jerk
Over at 99U.com, I looked at whether psychology research can provide any insights on effective self-promotion.
What Emotions Are (and Aren’t)
"Most people, including many scientists, believe that emotions are distinct, locatable entities inside us — but they’re not," writes Lisa Barrett at the New York Times. "Searching for emotions in this form is as misguided as looking for cerebral clarinets and oboes."
Mindfulness Is Great, But Spacing Out Is Good for You, Too
The latest animated video in the series from Science of Us at New York magazine.
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
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Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Big Baby Experiment A London lab is deploying every technology it can to understand infant brains, and what happens when development goes awry. Linda Geddes reports...
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We trawled the web for this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Where is Psychology's Non-stick Frying Pan? In a letter to The Psychologist, Phil Banyard bemoans psychology's lack of headline discoveries and transformational...
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Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Down The Culinary Rabbit Hole Over at The Psychologist magazine, Chef Heston Blumenthal describes his work with psychologists, and there's an exclusive extract...
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Following the controversy and enmity aroused by two recent failed replications, The Psychologist magazine has hosted an opinion special on the issue of replication in psychology. In...
- Torture Psychology And The American Psychological Association (apa) - #apa2015
This is a "turning point" week for American psychology, with implications that are generational, rather than short-term. These are implications that directly impact the profession and science of psychology and the degree of trust that the public can have...
Neuroscience
Link feast
Fifty Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid: A List of Inaccurate, Misleading, Misused, Ambiguous, and Logically Confused Words and Phrases
Clinical Psychologist Scott Lilienfeld (co-author of 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology and Brainwashed) and his colleagues hope their list will "promote clear thinking and clear writing among students and teachers of psychological science".
After Damning Torture Report, Psychology Fights For Its Soul
At a huge meeting in Toronto, psychologists are grappling with their role in the U.S. government’s use of torture. “We’ve got a fire in our house, and it’s a devastating fire,” one psychologist told BuzzFeed News. (Digest editor's last minute update: the APA has just announced that its council has voted to ban psychologists' involvement in national security interrogations).
Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The shortlist was announced this week and includes The Man Who Couldn't Stop, by David Adam about his (and other people's) experience of OCD. You can read the opening chapter for free.
666 Evil (audio)
This week, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the 666th episode of the Moral Maze, focused on the apt subject of evil: "As our understanding of psychology and the neurosciences has developed what role should the notion of evil have in our moral, political, and legal thinking?"
Welcome to "I Got a Mind to Tell You"
Emotion expert Joseph LeDoux has launched a new blog for Psychology Today.
Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach
BBC Radio 4 begins a new run of Mind Changers, presented by Claudia Hammond.
Memory and Music at the BBC Proms
At The Psychologist, Professor Susan Hallam MBE reviews a musical performance and a lecture from Professor Daniel Levitin.
The Braggart's Dilemma: How to Promote Yourself Without Being a Jerk
Over at 99U.com, I looked at whether psychology research can provide any insights on effective self-promotion.
What Emotions Are (and Aren’t)
"Most people, including many scientists, believe that emotions are distinct, locatable entities inside us — but they’re not," writes Lisa Barrett at the New York Times. "Searching for emotions in this form is as misguided as looking for cerebral clarinets and oboes."
Mindfulness Is Great, But Spacing Out Is Good for You, Too
The latest animated video in the series from Science of Us at New York magazine.
_________________________________
Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
Our free fortnightly email will keep you up-to-date with all the psychology research we digest: Sign up!
- Link Feast
Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Big Baby Experiment A London lab is deploying every technology it can to understand infant brains, and what happens when development goes awry. Linda Geddes reports...
- Link Feast
We trawled the web for this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Where is Psychology's Non-stick Frying Pan? In a letter to The Psychologist, Phil Banyard bemoans psychology's lack of headline discoveries and transformational...
- Link Feast
Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Down The Culinary Rabbit Hole Over at The Psychologist magazine, Chef Heston Blumenthal describes his work with psychologists, and there's an exclusive extract...
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Following the controversy and enmity aroused by two recent failed replications, The Psychologist magazine has hosted an opinion special on the issue of replication in psychology. In...
- Torture Psychology And The American Psychological Association (apa) - #apa2015
This is a "turning point" week for American psychology, with implications that are generational, rather than short-term. These are implications that directly impact the profession and science of psychology and the degree of trust that the public can have...