Link Feast

The British Psychological Society has launched a new sports psychology portal “Going for Gold” with news and interactive features.

On a similar theme – can you cope with pressure? BBC Lab UK have put together an online test with a little help from Michael Johnson and few sports psychologists.

“Only in this case, the humans were the tools, and the dogs the tool-users,” fascinating blog post by Jason Goldman on the social-cognitive differences between dogs and wolves.

“Being online does change your brain, but so does making a cup of tea,” – Tom Stafford debunks irrational fears about internet use. It could even make you a better communicator.

New APA report on the benefits of diversity and the harms of discrimination.

The latest monthly APA monitor magazine is also online – includes an article on psychology’s first forays into film.

Does the brain’s wiring make us who we are? Here’s a video of neuroscientists Sebastian Seung and Anothony Movshon debating minds, maps, and the future of their field (check out the retro lecture theatre!).

There’s a mirror neuron-inspired art exhibition in Sunderland including some cool-sounding glass brain replicas (Guardian review).

New podcast from Wellcome: “Has our civilisation suffered from a failure to manage the binary division of our brains?” featuring Iain McGilchrist author of The Master and his Emissary: The divided brain and the making of the modern world.

Our sister blog The Occupational Digest explores the concept of an alternative selves – do you ever think about the person you might have been?

A new series of The Hoarder Next Door started last night on Channel 4. Should be up on Channel 4 on Demand soon.

Five innovative solutions to help people with dementia live well – including a new social networking site.

Stop what you’re working on and do this quiz – Are you a workaholic?

The latest Neuropod podcast is online and includes items on the neural correlates of our sense of justice and how social relationships can prevent illness.

Your Brain on Fiction – interesting Op-ed from the New York Times.

One to watch – Scientific American has given birth to a new psych/neuro blog called Brainwaves.

BBC Radio’s excellent All in the Mind series has returned, the first episode deals with the implications of government health reforms for mental health services; and does internet dating really work?

The final episode in the latest run of Mind Changers just aired and is now available on iPlayer – it covers Broadbent and the cocktail party phenomenon.

Access more than 200 free multi-disciplinary articles from top Wiley journals examining social media’s impact on the world.

Twenty-two giant brains are touring Indiana.

Winners announced in the 2012 Neuro film festival.

A new book that’s worth a look: “Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired”

Why do we need a brain? Bruce Hood has the moving answer.

That’s all for now. Feast will return in a couple of weeks. Have a great weekend!