Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits from the world of psychology.
26 August 2011
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The problem with twin studies (via @mrianleslie). A tendentious view from Slate magazine. For an alternative view, check out the Digest’s own guest post on “Why psychologists study twins“.
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The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine is out now, is open access, and has a special focus on Milgram’s classic obedience studies. There’s also a feature on the psychology of better meetings, and much more.
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Also, on Milgram – check out this original 1974 Psychology Today interview with Milgram by Carol Tavris.
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Free book chapter from The Analysis of Failure: An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Further info.
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New Scientist has a special feature on animal senses.
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Cognopedia is a free online brain and cognition encyclopedia. Via @mocost
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26 days left to watch the latest episode of Horizon on how the first 9 months of our lives (in the womb) have a far reaching influence on our health and personalities.
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The excellent series of “Out of Mind” columns for Prospect magazine, by neuropsychologist Paul Broks, are now free to access and come highly recommended. “Alternately whimsical, profound and poetic, [the column] recounted ephemeral scenes from meetings with brain altered individuals and spun them into reflections on the science and philosophy of human nature,” says @vaughanbell, also rather poetically.
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New book: “Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Popular Media” by Davi Thornton.
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Confidence intervals made easy. Ben Goldacre makes stats accessible in a column about the media reporting of unemployment stats. Tim Harford replies (and there’s a comment from Ben lower down).
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Guardian research suggests Twitter used mainly to react to, rather than orchestrate, the recent English riots.
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BBC Radio Four’s Material World had a segment on time perception (from 11 minutes in, although it felt longer).
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Reports and news from the Association for Psychological Science‘s recent annual convention.
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Get your diaries out: 12 September, Charles Fernyhough, novelist and psychologist, is speaking at the School of Life about memory; 17 Nov Catherine Loveday, neuropsychologist, is giving an open lecture at Uni of Westminster on the brain and music.
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Our off-spring title The BPS Occupational Digest has an interesting post on how work technology at home can make it more difficult to unplug psychologically from the office.
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Important articles from the 100-year archive of the British Journal of Psychology made free to access.
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The latest edition of Head to Head on BBC Radio Four revisited a debate between B F Skinner and Donald Mackay on the question of free will and social control. Contemporary psychologists reflect on the classic debate. via @BPSOfficial
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5 “Mindshifting talks on happiness” from TED.