Neuroscience
Ten of the best psychology links from the past fortnight:
"The digital traces left by life in the modern world are transforming social science" Fascinating feature from Nature magazine.
Developmental neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop gave a lecture recently in which she championed behavioural studies and warned against the allure of neuroscience technologies - Neurobonkers has a summary and a link to a video of the talk. (Prof Bishop has also posted a written version of her talk online. On a related note, from the APS Observer: "Four surefire ways to spot the biobunk that underlies pseudo neuroscience.")
A recent episode of James May's Things You Need To Know programme on BBC Two was focused on the brain and is now available on iPlayer.
There are three days left to hear psychologist Tanya Byron's BBC Radio 4 show about restorative justice (in which victims come face to face with perpetrators).
A modern-day Phineas Gage-type incident.
How the ad-libbing left hemisphere makes sense of the world by telling stories. A great article from Michael Gazzaniga in Discover magazine.
It's far easier to prove you're insane than to prove you're insane - thought-provoking TED talk from Jon Ronson (author of The Psychopath Test).
How to be a better procrastinator.
How forensic psychologists catch out people who fake mental illness.
The unexpected beauty of abandoned psychiatric wards.
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: The new July issue of The Psychologist magazine has an open-access article on the psychology of competition - the benefits and costs of pressure for competitors, and how the Olympics will...
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Neuroscience
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"The digital traces left by life in the modern world are transforming social science" Fascinating feature from Nature magazine.
Developmental neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop gave a lecture recently in which she championed behavioural studies and warned against the allure of neuroscience technologies - Neurobonkers has a summary and a link to a video of the talk. (Prof Bishop has also posted a written version of her talk online. On a related note, from the APS Observer: "Four surefire ways to spot the biobunk that underlies pseudo neuroscience.")
A recent episode of James May's Things You Need To Know programme on BBC Two was focused on the brain and is now available on iPlayer.
There are three days left to hear psychologist Tanya Byron's BBC Radio 4 show about restorative justice (in which victims come face to face with perpetrators).
A modern-day Phineas Gage-type incident.
How the ad-libbing left hemisphere makes sense of the world by telling stories. A great article from Michael Gazzaniga in Discover magazine.
It's far easier to prove you're insane than to prove you're insane - thought-provoking TED talk from Jon Ronson (author of The Psychopath Test).
How to be a better procrastinator.
How forensic psychologists catch out people who fake mental illness.
The unexpected beauty of abandoned psychiatric wards.
_________________________________
Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
- Link Feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. Sam McNerney published a thought-provoking essay about aesthetic judgments and expertise. Is the taste of a connoisseur in some way superior, more "correct" than the...
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: The new July issue of The Psychologist magazine has an open-access article on the psychology of competition - the benefits and costs of pressure for competitors, and how the Olympics will...
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Will they ever let him rest? Researchers in the USA attempt to simulate the damage suffered by Phineas Gage to the white-matter tracts of his brain (no easy feat given that Gage's brain...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest psychology links from around the web: How do successful people make good decisions? You can download the audio of Prof Landman's talk at the RSA. Ten days left to watch Bobby Fischer: Genius and Madman on BBC iPlayer. Claudia...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy titbits in the world of psychology: All week long BBC Radio 3 has been running a series of programmes "The Darkest Hour" on insomnia. The latest issue of the American Psychological Association's monthly mag, Monitor,...