Neuroscience
The BPS Research Digest makes its radio debut tonight on BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind programme. Tune in at 9pm (BST) to hear the Digest editor Christian Jarrett chat with presenter Claudia Hammond about some of the psychology and neuroscience studies reported in recent weeks here at the Digest.
- Link Feast
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...
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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...
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Our round-up of the latest juicy psychology links from around the web: One time that psychology came to their rescue. In case you missed it: leading psychologists help mark 200 issues of the BPS Research Digest email by sharing their stories. A History...
- Elsewhere
Psychology-related radio clips, podcasts, magazine features and more, for when you've had enough of journal articles. "My brain made me do it". Debate at the Institute of Ideas on the use of neuroscience in politics and the courtroom. (Video Webcast)....
- Mind Changers
I've just heard that a new series of BBC Radio 4's Mind Changers programme is starting on Wednesday 28 Nov, with the first episode focusing on The Stanford Prison Experiment, and the second on The Heinz Dilemma. The topic for the third and final...
Neuroscience
Research Digest on the radio
The BPS Research Digest makes its radio debut tonight on BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind programme. Tune in at 9pm (BST) to hear the Digest editor Christian Jarrett chat with presenter Claudia Hammond about some of the psychology and neuroscience studies reported in recent weeks here at the Digest.The studies mentioned are:
Female political role models have an empowering effect on women
How children learn scientific thinking from their parents
Smiling fighters are more likely to lose
Also on the programme, Claudia talks to neuroscientist Kris de Meyer who spent six weeks interviewing followers of evangelical Christian broadcaster, Harold Camping, as they waited for May 21st, 2011, the date the earth was supposed to end. Also, is bad news bad for your mental health ? Rolf Dobelli, author of The Art of Thinking, believes so, and he's given up on the habit. Claudia talks to Rolf and Dr Pam Ramsden who discuss what we know about news consumption and mental wellbeing.
-- All in the Mind, BBC Radio 4, Tues 30 April, 9pm
- Link Feast
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...
- 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...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy psychology links from around the web: One time that psychology came to their rescue. In case you missed it: leading psychologists help mark 200 issues of the BPS Research Digest email by sharing their stories. A History...
- Elsewhere
Psychology-related radio clips, podcasts, magazine features and more, for when you've had enough of journal articles. "My brain made me do it". Debate at the Institute of Ideas on the use of neuroscience in politics and the courtroom. (Video Webcast)....
- Mind Changers
I've just heard that a new series of BBC Radio 4's Mind Changers programme is starting on Wednesday 28 Nov, with the first episode focusing on The Stanford Prison Experiment, and the second on The Heinz Dilemma. The topic for the third and final...