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The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine, with a special focus on traffic and transport psychology, has been made entirely open access – get PDFs of all the articles, or read it via the Issuu web platform.

The Association for Psychological Science has posted a video of the opening address at their Chicago convention this year – titled Psychological Science is Important. If you’re about to start studying psychology, this talk by Alan Kraut will have you raring to go.

The Moral Worldview of Babies – Sam McNerney looks at a recent challenge to the idea that babies have an innate preference for altruistic characters.

Don’t delay! There are 4 days left to listen to the BBC Radio Four documentary on procrastination – can science find a cure?

A US judge has thrown out fMRI-based lie-detection evidence in a murder trial, ruling it as inadmissible. A good move I reckon. Recent research suggests the technology isn’t reliable yet, that it’s easy to cheat, and that jurors are seduced by the tech-wow factor.

Vaughan Bell’s description of the life of anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff reads like something out of a Hollywood film.

There are 5 days left to watch the BBC Four Growing Children documentary on Dyslexia, presented by psychologist Laverne Antrobus.

In his review for the Sunday Times, Bryan Appleyard (author of The Brain is Wider Than the Sky) described James Flynn’s book Are We Getting Smarter? as the “one of the most extraordinary science books I have ever read.”

The truth about the effect of pregnancy on women’s brains: “Pregnesia is the price paid for what ultimately is a maternal neuro-upgrade”.

The Society for Personality and Social Psychology has published an open letter outlining its reaction to the recent scandals in social psychology. Dan Simons is less than impressed.