Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:Remember the study we covered on how a headache pill can ease the pain of social rejection? The Neurocritic has a skeptical look at the details.The Atlantic has a fascinating article on witchcraft and the legal system in Central Africa.The 'Bloggers Behind the Blogs' series is in full swing over at the BPS Research Digest. It seems we lack fem
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Understanding witchcraft
YouTube has a fantastic documentary about the work of the pioneering anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard who was one of the first researchers to try and understanding the psychology of people he was studying.He is most well known for his 1937 book Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande where he studied the role of magic and prophecy in the lives of the Sudanese Azande people from their p
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