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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links.
29 June 2012
The new July issue of The Psychologist magazine has an open-access article on the psychology of competition – the benefits and costs of pressure for competitors, and how the Olympics will affect you. You can also read this article and much more in a free digital preview of the July issue.
BBC Radio 3 broadcast a superb documentary on crowd psychology, featuring social psychologists Prof Steve Reicher, John Dury and others (you can listen again on iPlayer or download the podcast).
The Guardian had a fascinating article on how finger counting varies around the world.
How Pirlo gave England a lesson in the omission bias.
A Dutch social psychologist has been found guilty of scientific misconduct – Science Insider has the details. It follows a case of scientific fraud by a social psychologist that was uncovered last year.
How can work be addictive? From our sister blog – the Occupational Digest.
Why the left-brain, right-brain myth will probably never die.
The EU launched a controversial campaign Science – it’s a Girl Thing. Many people found it patronising and insulting. The Research Digest covered a pertinent study recently – How “Girlie” Science Role Models Could Do More Harm Than Good.
Do you ever feel vibrations in your mobile (cell) phone, only to discover that you’d imagined it?