Neuroscience
To mark three years since the birth of the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest as a free email newsletter, I’ve asked some of the world’s best psychology bloggers to discuss a psychology journal article from the last three years which they found inspiring or that changed the way they think. Here’s what they chose:
- Psychology To The Rescue
The fortnightly email version of the BPS Research Digest, first launched in 2003, has today reached its 200th issue. To mark the occasion I've asked a handful of leading psychologists to write 200 words on a time in their lives that their psychology...
- The Bloggers Behind The Blogs
Blogging has emerged as a powerful medium in recent years and nowhere is this more evident than in psychology and neuroscience. But who are the people behind these increasingly influential blogs? What are their motives and what advice do they have for...
- What's The Most Important Psychology Experiment That's Never Been Done...?
To mark 100 email issues of the Research Digest - the British Psychological Society's free roundup of the world's best new psychology research - and to inspire the next generation of researchers, I asked leading psychologists and bloggers to write...
- Just How Good Are Police Officers At Detecting Liars?
By Emma Barrett, of Psychology and Crime News and the Deception Blog. We had just sat through a presentation by a proponent of the Reid Technique, a potentially psychologically coercive method of persuading a suspect to confess, used widely in North America...
- Nice Therapist, Shame About The Symptoms
By Dryden Badenoch, of The Relaxed Therapist. Medical outcome research tends to focus upon finding the best drug to treat a given disease. The patient's role is often no more than the repository of the disease and the recipient of the drug: their...
Neuroscience
The best psychology article from the last 3 years?
To mark three years since the birth of the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest as a free email newsletter, I’ve asked some of the world’s best psychology bloggers to discuss a psychology journal article from the last three years which they found inspiring or that changed the way they think. Here’s what they chose:- Just how good are police officers at detecting liars? By Emma Barrett, of Psychology and Crime News and the Deception Blog.
- Nice therapist, shame about the symptoms. By Dryden Badenoch, of The Relaxed Therapist.
- Psychology defined and unified. By Jeremy Dean, of PsyBlog.
- Unusual experiences in everyday life. By Vaughan Bell, of Mind Hacks.
- Fusing psychology and neuroscience. By Chris Chatham, of Developing Intelligence.
- The route to happiness. By Will Meek, of Vancouver Psychologist.
- Expanding representations. By Dave and Greta Munger, of Cognitive Daily.
What do you think of their choices? Which inspiring articles did they miss? Comments welcome.
Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
- Psychology To The Rescue
The fortnightly email version of the BPS Research Digest, first launched in 2003, has today reached its 200th issue. To mark the occasion I've asked a handful of leading psychologists to write 200 words on a time in their lives that their psychology...
- The Bloggers Behind The Blogs
Blogging has emerged as a powerful medium in recent years and nowhere is this more evident than in psychology and neuroscience. But who are the people behind these increasingly influential blogs? What are their motives and what advice do they have for...
- What's The Most Important Psychology Experiment That's Never Been Done...?
To mark 100 email issues of the Research Digest - the British Psychological Society's free roundup of the world's best new psychology research - and to inspire the next generation of researchers, I asked leading psychologists and bloggers to write...
- Just How Good Are Police Officers At Detecting Liars?
By Emma Barrett, of Psychology and Crime News and the Deception Blog. We had just sat through a presentation by a proponent of the Reid Technique, a potentially psychologically coercive method of persuading a suspect to confess, used widely in North America...
- Nice Therapist, Shame About The Symptoms
By Dryden Badenoch, of The Relaxed Therapist. Medical outcome research tends to focus upon finding the best drug to treat a given disease. The patient's role is often no more than the repository of the disease and the recipient of the drug: their...