Neuroscience
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 Rhodes at The Psychologist magazine reports on the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program (story requires free registration to access).
That CIA Torture Methods Were Pointless Is No Shock
The New Scientist reports that decades of research has shown that torture is an ineffective way to acquire intelligence from suspects.
9 Things I Wish People Understood About Anxiety
Kady Morrison, writing at Vox, was diagnosed with anxiety disorder five years ago.
Journalists' Guide to fMRI Papers
What does fMRI really measure, plus many more questions answered by cognitive neuroscientist Jon Simons and friends.
Serial: Your Memory Can Play Tricks On You – Here’s How
"...at times we cannot even trust our own memory, let alone that of others," writes Catherine Loveday at The Conversation.
10 Ways That Brain Myths Are Harming Us
Over at WIRED, I provided my response to the question - do brain myths matter?
The Mind-bending Effects of Feeling Two Hearts
David Robson at BBC Future reports on a patient whose experiences show the important part that bodily sensations play in our emotional lives (we reported on this patient last year).
Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
The science of misheard lyrics, by Maria Konnikova at the New Yorker.
Why Is It That Zombies Eat Brains?
Zombies didn't eat brains in Romero's cult classic Night of the Living Dead, so where does the idea come from?
Link Feast will return in the New Year.
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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: Leicester's Lesson In Leadership A leader is not "the special one", but "the one who makes us special", argue S. Alexander Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher at The Psychologist....
- Link Feast
Happy new year and welcome to the first Link Feast of 2016 – the weekly post where our editor lists his favourite recent psychology and neuroscience links: Lumosity to Pay $2 Million to Settle FTC Deceptive Advertising The creators and marketers of...
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Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Monster Mind Enlisting the help of Godzilla and a few of its friends, Jonathan Myers (writing at The Psychologist magazine) considers why we see monsters and what form they take....
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Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Real Life Lesson of The Stanford Prison Experiment (more from us) Maria Konnikova for the New Yorker. Consciousness Researcher on The Life Scientific Anil Seth was the guest...
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Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Why Our Memory Fails Us Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons provide some compelling examples of the fallibility of memory. PTSD: Do Most People Get it After Terrifying...
Neuroscience
Link feast
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 Rhodes at The Psychologist magazine reports on the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's detention and interrogation program (story requires free registration to access).
That CIA Torture Methods Were Pointless Is No Shock
The New Scientist reports that decades of research has shown that torture is an ineffective way to acquire intelligence from suspects.
9 Things I Wish People Understood About Anxiety
Kady Morrison, writing at Vox, was diagnosed with anxiety disorder five years ago.
Journalists' Guide to fMRI Papers
What does fMRI really measure, plus many more questions answered by cognitive neuroscientist Jon Simons and friends.
Serial: Your Memory Can Play Tricks On You – Here’s How
"...at times we cannot even trust our own memory, let alone that of others," writes Catherine Loveday at The Conversation.
10 Ways That Brain Myths Are Harming Us
Over at WIRED, I provided my response to the question - do brain myths matter?
The Mind-bending Effects of Feeling Two Hearts
David Robson at BBC Future reports on a patient whose experiences show the important part that bodily sensations play in our emotional lives (we reported on this patient last year).
Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
The science of misheard lyrics, by Maria Konnikova at the New Yorker.
Why Is It That Zombies Eat Brains?
Zombies didn't eat brains in Romero's cult classic Night of the Living Dead, so where does the idea come from?
Link Feast will return in the New Year.
_________________________________
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: Leicester's Lesson In Leadership A leader is not "the special one", but "the one who makes us special", argue S. Alexander Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher at The Psychologist....
- Link Feast
Happy new year and welcome to the first Link Feast of 2016 – the weekly post where our editor lists his favourite recent psychology and neuroscience links: Lumosity to Pay $2 Million to Settle FTC Deceptive Advertising The creators and marketers of...
- Link Feast
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Monster Mind Enlisting the help of Godzilla and a few of its friends, Jonathan Myers (writing at The Psychologist magazine) considers why we see monsters and what form they take....
- Link Feast
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Real Life Lesson of The Stanford Prison Experiment (more from us) Maria Konnikova for the New Yorker. Consciousness Researcher on The Life Scientific Anil Seth was the guest...
- Link Feast
Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Why Our Memory Fails Us Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons provide some compelling examples of the fallibility of memory. PTSD: Do Most People Get it After Terrifying...