Neuroscience
We trawled the web for the week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links:
How I Overcame the Fear of Public Speaking
Organisational Psychologist Adam Grant shares his experience for the Quiet Revolution website.
It’s Not Just Cricket
As the 2015 Ashes series comes to England, Jamie Barker and Matt Slater consider the psychology at play in an article for The Psychologist.
Why Is It So Hard to Take Your Own Advice?
Melissa Dahl investigates for The Cut and finds psychologists are just as guilty of this as everyone else.
The Data or the Hunch?
"More and more decisions, from the music business to the sports field, are being delegated to data," writes Ian Leslie in a feature for Intelligent Life. "But where does that leave our intuition?"
The Marketing Industry Has Started Using Neuroscience, But the Results Are More Glitter Than Gold
The idea behind neuromarketing is that the brain can reveal hidden and profitable truths, but this is misleading, writes Vaughan Bell for The Observer.
Face It, Your Brain Is a Computer
"Airplanes may not fly like birds, but they are subject to the same forces of lift and drag," writes Gary Marcus in the New York Times. "Likewise, there is no reason to think that brains are exempt from the laws of computation."
New Proof That We're Not As Busy As We Think
Fastcompany reports the results from a new time survey conducted in the US that found that on an average day, 96 per cent of Americans had some time for leisure activities such as watching TV.
Welcome To the Empathy Wars
The "anti-empathy brigade" led by psychologist Paul Bloom "is badly mistaken" argues Roman Krznaric at OpenDemocracy.net
Standard Center for Reproducible Neuroscience
Russell Poldrack and his colleagues launch their new Center which aims to "... harness high-performance computing to make neuroscience research more reliable."
Brainstorm
This new play at the National Theatre's Temporary Theatre is about the adolescent brain and was created in consultation with cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. Advance tickets are sold out but a limited number will be available on each performance day starting July 21.
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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 Brain With David Eagleman (TV show) New BBC Four series in which neuroscientist David Eagleman explores how the brain, locked in silence and darkness without...
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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 this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Making Holidays Work With the holiday season in full swing, work and organisational psychologist Jessica de Bloom (writing for The Psychologist) takes a tour of the world of vacation...
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Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Finding The Golden Thread of Consciousness "... the play is a lost opportunity to push ethical questions about human conduct up against the genuinely profound questions about...
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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...
Neuroscience
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How I Overcame the Fear of Public Speaking
Organisational Psychologist Adam Grant shares his experience for the Quiet Revolution website.
It’s Not Just Cricket
As the 2015 Ashes series comes to England, Jamie Barker and Matt Slater consider the psychology at play in an article for The Psychologist.
Why Is It So Hard to Take Your Own Advice?
Melissa Dahl investigates for The Cut and finds psychologists are just as guilty of this as everyone else.
The Data or the Hunch?
"More and more decisions, from the music business to the sports field, are being delegated to data," writes Ian Leslie in a feature for Intelligent Life. "But where does that leave our intuition?"
The Marketing Industry Has Started Using Neuroscience, But the Results Are More Glitter Than Gold
The idea behind neuromarketing is that the brain can reveal hidden and profitable truths, but this is misleading, writes Vaughan Bell for The Observer.
Face It, Your Brain Is a Computer
"Airplanes may not fly like birds, but they are subject to the same forces of lift and drag," writes Gary Marcus in the New York Times. "Likewise, there is no reason to think that brains are exempt from the laws of computation."
New Proof That We're Not As Busy As We Think
Fastcompany reports the results from a new time survey conducted in the US that found that on an average day, 96 per cent of Americans had some time for leisure activities such as watching TV.
Welcome To the Empathy Wars
The "anti-empathy brigade" led by psychologist Paul Bloom "is badly mistaken" argues Roman Krznaric at OpenDemocracy.net
Standard Center for Reproducible Neuroscience
Russell Poldrack and his colleagues launch their new Center which aims to "... harness high-performance computing to make neuroscience research more reliable."
Brainstorm
This new play at the National Theatre's Temporary Theatre is about the adolescent brain and was created in consultation with cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. Advance tickets are sold out but a limited number will be available on each performance day starting July 21.
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
- Link Feast
Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Brain With David Eagleman (TV show) New BBC Four series in which neuroscientist David Eagleman explores how the brain, locked in silence and darkness without...
- 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 this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Making Holidays Work With the holiday season in full swing, work and organisational psychologist Jessica de Bloom (writing for The Psychologist) takes a tour of the world of vacation...
- Link Feast
Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Finding The Golden Thread of Consciousness "... the play is a lost opportunity to push ethical questions about human conduct up against the genuinely profound questions about...
- 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...