Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:The Wall Street Journal reports that 'picky eating' is being considered as a new mental illness for the next DSM. I think they're just trolling us now.Becoming angry in negotiations was thought to be a widely effective strategy, but not, it turns out, when negotiating with people from an East Asian background. New study covered by The BPS Rese
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July 10, 2010
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July 8, 2010
July 2, 2010
2010-07-02 Spike activity
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:NPR have just completed a three part series on violence, psychopaths and the brain.Bring back the fat cats? Hunger increases financial risk-taking according to a new study covered by the BPS Research Digest.Time has an in-depth article that covers cocaine's growth as a middle class drug and its link to the global drug trade.If you're not famil
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June 26, 2010
January 14, 2010
Bragging for beginners
The BPS Research Digest covers an interesting study on the perception of boasting, looking at whether there are specific contexts in which bragging actually leads people to think more highly of you and whether there are those where people end up thinking you're a bit of an arse.It turns out, there are. Participants were asked to rate the character and personality of a chap called 'Avi' who boaste
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October 8, 2009
Pavlov, Office Style
This clip, from the US version of comedy show The Office, shows Jim training co-worker Dwight to expect a sweet everytime he reboots his computer. From Vodpod.Psychologists everywhere will recognise this an an application of classical conditioning. The 'scientist' Jim has heard of is, of course, Ivan Pavlov.Thanks to Russ Fazio for showing us this clip during his keynote at the recent BPS S
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October 5, 2009
One nagging thing…
The BPS Research Digest has a fantastic feature where they've invited some of the world's leading psychologists to discuss one nagging thing they still don't understand about themselves.Some take the challenge as a query about themselves as human beings, others about them personally, and the answers are a wonderful mix of the scientific and personal, the profound and ephemeral.This is one of the
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May 16, 2009
2009-05-15 Spike activity
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:The BPS Research Digest covers a study finding that people judged as likeable in the flesh also make good first impressions online.A short but sweet Jonah Lehrer article on the neuroscience of creativity is published in Seed Magazine.Dr Petra has more on the recent not very convincing 'emotional intelligence boosts female orgasms' story that g
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April 29, 2009
Voodoo II: this time it isn’t personal
More analysis problems with brain scanning research have come to light in a new study just released in Nature Neuroscience and expertly covered by the BPS Research Digest. It demonstrates that the common practice of using the same data set to identify an area of interest and then home in on this area to test further ideas can lead to misleading results.This usually occurs when brain activation is
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