Archive for May 2013

Link feast

In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week : 1. Sally Satel on the limits of neuroscience : "While th...

US law professor Amy Chua attracted controversy in 2011 when she published an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled Why Chinese Mothe...

Imagine you and your partner are about to enjoy a meal together. They have obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and get incredibly anxious un...

Hey good looking! Never mind the sleepless nights and domestic disarray, new fathers think they're hot stuff. The finding comes from a s...

In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week : 1. What an inspiration - Neuropsychologist Brenda Milner, ag...

Imagine you are the driver & your chocolate cravings are unruly passengers If someone gave you a bag of 14 chocolates to carry around fo...

We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to : Psychotherapy Outcome (Psychotherapy). Asexuality (Psychology and Sexuality)....

What is going on in the brain of someone who has the deluded belief that they are brain dead? A team of researchers led by neuropsychologist...

Publication of US psychiatry's updated diagnostic code has provoked renewed debate in recent weeks over the extent to which mental illne...

In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the last week : 1. How too much empathy can actually lead us to do the wrong...

For the penultimate round of the TV show The Apprentice, the competing entrepreneurs must face a series of interviews with a crack team of h...

Do fluent presenters make learning feel too easy? Eloquent and engaging scientific communicators in the mould of physicist Brian Cox make le...

Suicide rates have fallen among farmers Among the various risk factors for suicide, psychologists have recognised for some time that a perso...

In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week : 1. Love this - " Neuroscience may be sexier than psychol...

The Greek Stoic Epictetus wrote that "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." A new study invol...