Feast
Links to the best psychology and neuroscience writing and broadcasting, compiled for your weekend pleasure.
27 January 2012
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The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine is online (browse the contents or view the free preview). It includes an open-access feature on self-control by Roy Baumeister.
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You can also listen to Baumeister’s recent talk at the RSA in London.
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How are you going to read all these links? Fear not: This Saturday’s Guardian comes with a free supplement on time management (also online).
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New Yorker podcast of Jonah Lehrer explaining why brain storming doesn’t work, but coffee breaks and criticism do. These ideas and more are in Lehrer’s forthcoming book: “Imagine: How Creativity Works“. I’ve covered similar ground on the Digest. Check out these previous posts: Why do we still believe in group brainstorming? Forget brainstorming – try brain writing! and Coffee helps women cope with stressful meetings but has the opposite effect on men.
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Tali Sharot, author of The Optimism Bias was another recent speaker at the RSA – listen to the audio.
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A new book that’s worth a look: “Together The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation” by Richard Sennett.
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Another new book that’s worth a look: “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking” by Susan Cain.
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BBC Radio 3 have broadcast a series of shorts about phonophobia – the fear and intolerance of noise.
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A new video collection website features dozens of lectures for school students by university researchers.
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Catch it while you can “Freud vs. Jung” from BBC Radio 4 is available for just one more day.
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John Gray argues why Freud “the last great Enlightenment thinker” has gone out of fashion.
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This could be Jung’s century argues Jungian analyst Andrew Samuels.
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This interest in Freud and Jung is due to the forthcoming release of A Dangerous Method, which charts the relationship between the two men.
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Britons are more dishonest than they used to be, apparently. Or maybe just more honest about their dishonesty?
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Go buy this week’s New Scientist magazine if you can – it has features on the effects of space on the brain (see here also) and “orchid children” (kids who are vulnerable to neglect but who thrive in a nourishing environment).
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Newly posted TEDx talk: Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner
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A neuropsychoanalytic approach to the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs.
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Psychology professor Graham Davey (an expert in experimental psychopathology) has started a new blog.
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BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour had a special episode on the psychology of friendship.
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Skeptikai explodes some myths about “right-brains” and “left-brains“.
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Heart disease patients who take their placebo pills are less likely to die.
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A sad twist to a classic case study in psychology: Was Little Albert neurologically impaired?
That’s all – have a great weekend!