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Feature August 8, 2017September 4, 2017

Punishment vs. Negative Reinforcement + 9 More Pairs of Psych Terms You’re Getting Confused

“Our list … should hopefully be a modest contribution toward enhancing psychological literacy and critical thinking in psychology,” write Lilienfeld et al.

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Emotion, evolutionary psych November 12, 2018November 12, 2018

Schadenfreude turns us into temporary psychopaths, according to a new model of the emotion

By Emma Young. A person experiencing schadenfreude tends to dehumanise the target of their gleeful feelings.

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Methods, Social March 16, 2017March 23, 2017

The scientific evidence for microaggressions is weak and we should drop the term, argues review author

A new review of the psychological literature on microaggressions finds the concept highly problematic. By Alex Fradera

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In Brief, Mental health February 20, 2017February 20, 2017

Textbook fail: Rosenhan’s classic “On Being Sane In Insane Places” covered without criticism

Of 12 abnormal psychology textbooks surveyed, half covered Rosenhan’s classic study, but only two included any criticism. By Christian Jarrett

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Personality November 23, 2016November 23, 2016

A bigger signature correlates with social bravado and narcissism

By Christian Jarrett When you sign your name, do you like to fill the available space with bold strokes or…

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Feast September 12, 2015July 30, 2016

Link feast

Our editor’s pick of this week’s ten best psychology and neuroscience links: The Geel QuestionFor centuries, a little Belgian town…

Feast August 8, 2015July 30, 2016

Link feast

We trawled the web for this week’s 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Fifty Psychological and Psychiatric Terms to Avoid:…

Feature July 29, 2016January 21, 2018

10 of The Most Widely Believed Myths in Psychology

By Christian Jarrett In a sense we’re all amateur psychologists – we’ve got our own first-hand experience at being human,…

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Mental health, Methodological, Therapy July 28, 2014February 21, 2018

The mistakes that lead therapists to infer psychotherapy was effective, when it wasn’t

How well can psychotherapists and their clients judge from personal experience whether therapy has been effective? Not well at all,…

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leadership, Occupational, Psychopathy August 28, 2014July 30, 2016

Managers, conservatives, Europeans and the non-religious show higher levels of psychopathic traits

Christian Bale played the archetypalpsychopath in American Psycho (2000). Mention psychopathic personality traits and the mind turns to criminals. The…

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