Neuroscience
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links:
The Last Day of Her Life
When psychology professor Sandy Bem found out she had Alzheimer’s, she resolved that before the disease stole her mind, she would kill herself. The question was, when?
Girls With Toys
This is what real scientists look like.
A Really Important Political Science Study About Gay Marriage Used Faked Data
New York Mag's Science of Us site reports on the retraction of a high-profile study that suggested a short chat with a gay person increased people's support for gay marriage.
What Can “Lived Experience” Teach Neuroscientists?
Neuroskeptic reports on a paper that says neuroscientists who research mental health problems ought to listen to the views of people who have experienced those conditions.
The Philosopher Who Studies The Experience of Coffee
David Robson at BBC Future meets philosopher David Berman who claims that coffee and tea drinkers are fundamentally different people.
Hacking the Brain
How we might make ourselves smarter in the future.
The Male Suicides: How Social Perfectionism Kills
In every country in the world, male suicides outnumber female. Will Storr asks why.
Theorising the Drone
What does the rise of the drone mean for justice, for the ethics of heroism, for psychology? Most important of all, who is dying and why?
Against Wunderkinds
How late bloomers are leading the revolt against the cult of literary prodigy
Do Babies Express Emotions In The Same Way Adults Do?
Short answer: Eventually, yes.
_________________________________
Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
- Link Feast
We trawled the web for this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Torture Report "will help define the meaning of psychology" At The Psychologist magazine, Jon Sutton reports on a review into the American Psychological Association's...
- Link Feast
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Author Of Tainted Gay Marriage Study Admits To Destroying Data But Stands By Results The US grad student at the centre of an unfolding research scandal publishes his response, as promised....
- Link Feast
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: "In a Way, We Are All Either Jedi or Sith" The Psychologist meets John Amaechi OBE – psychologist, organisational consultant, high-performance executive coach and former NBA...
- Link Feast
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Autistic Traits Aren’t Linked To Brain Anatomy? Neuroskeptic (a previous Digest guest blogger) looks at a new study that failed to find correlations in healthy people between...
- Link Feast
Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: 2014’s Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully An end-of-year roundup from the BrainPickings website. Sickening and Morally Reprehensible Ella...
Neuroscience
Link feast
The Last Day of Her Life
When psychology professor Sandy Bem found out she had Alzheimer’s, she resolved that before the disease stole her mind, she would kill herself. The question was, when?
Girls With Toys
This is what real scientists look like.
A Really Important Political Science Study About Gay Marriage Used Faked Data
New York Mag's Science of Us site reports on the retraction of a high-profile study that suggested a short chat with a gay person increased people's support for gay marriage.
What Can “Lived Experience” Teach Neuroscientists?
Neuroskeptic reports on a paper that says neuroscientists who research mental health problems ought to listen to the views of people who have experienced those conditions.
The Philosopher Who Studies The Experience of Coffee
David Robson at BBC Future meets philosopher David Berman who claims that coffee and tea drinkers are fundamentally different people.
Hacking the Brain
How we might make ourselves smarter in the future.
The Male Suicides: How Social Perfectionism Kills
In every country in the world, male suicides outnumber female. Will Storr asks why.
Theorising the Drone
What does the rise of the drone mean for justice, for the ethics of heroism, for psychology? Most important of all, who is dying and why?
Against Wunderkinds
How late bloomers are leading the revolt against the cult of literary prodigy
Do Babies Express Emotions In The Same Way Adults Do?
Short answer: Eventually, yes.
_________________________________
Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
- Link Feast
We trawled the web for this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Torture Report "will help define the meaning of psychology" At The Psychologist magazine, Jon Sutton reports on a review into the American Psychological Association's...
- Link Feast
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Author Of Tainted Gay Marriage Study Admits To Destroying Data But Stands By Results The US grad student at the centre of an unfolding research scandal publishes his response, as promised....
- Link Feast
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: "In a Way, We Are All Either Jedi or Sith" The Psychologist meets John Amaechi OBE – psychologist, organisational consultant, high-performance executive coach and former NBA...
- Link Feast
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Autistic Traits Aren’t Linked To Brain Anatomy? Neuroskeptic (a previous Digest guest blogger) looks at a new study that failed to find correlations in healthy people between...
- Link Feast
Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: 2014’s Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully An end-of-year roundup from the BrainPickings website. Sickening and Morally Reprehensible Ella...