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Our round-up of the latest psychology links from around the web.
24 November 2011
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Tips from psychologists on how to maintain focus at work (New York Times). Don’t worry, reading the Digest blog definitely counts as work.
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Facebook users average just 3.74 degrees of separation from each other, according to new research.
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But … “It’s not socially meaningful that a friend of your friends is buddies with an acquaintance of someone else’s pal. It’s just an innate feature of large, tangled networks,” says mathematician Matt Parker for the Guardian.
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Going into brain surgery with your eyes open. A shortlisted essay in the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize.
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Chief Murdoch-hunter and MP Tom Watson leaps to the defence of violent video games.
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“We’re Nowhere Near Artificial Brains,” argues neurobiologist Mark Changizi.
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Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks and The Psychologist reports on the New York psychoanalytic scene.
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Former political spin-meister Alistair Campbell on myths about schizophrenia.
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Animal intelligence researcher and scientist-in-residence at the Rambert Dance Company Nicky Clayton was on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4, currently available on iPlayer.
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Does the language we speak shape how we think? The Economist hosted a debate.
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How does Prozac work? Jonah Lehrer with an answer that might surprise you.
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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore was on BBC Radio 3 this week talking about teen brains and the need to change society attitudes towards teenagers. It’s currently available on iPlayer.
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All in the Mind this week tackled riots, bullying and borderline personality disorder. It’s currently on iPlayer.
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It’s locked behind a paywall unfortunately, but the Sunday Times had an intriguing article on the Met’s elite team of super-recognisers. “A team of police officers with staggering memories for faces are naming and helping to catch rioters seen on even the blurriest CCTV footage.”