Archive for November 2014

Link feast - psychosis special

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so (psychosis special) : Understanding Psychosis and Schizophre...

You wait in a cubicle, electrodes strapped to your body. In a room nearby, a stranger is confronted with a series of decisions. They can cho...

By guest blogger Jordan Gaines Lewis If you need an accurate assessment of your emotional health, look no further than the quality of your ...

Staying positive can feel like an uphill battle. No wonder: when Philippe Verduyn and Saskia Lavrijsen asked over 200 high-school students ...

Across different professions, many people are familiar with the sense of having to deliver more with less, meaning clocking-off time falls l...

Which of your friends - the happier, or the more melancholy - is better at spotting your excitement that Chris is attending your birthday, o...

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Down The Culinary Rabbit Hole Over at The Psychologist mag...

Updated for November 2014, here are the 100 most followed psychologists and neuroscientists on Twitter based on follower counts recorded ov...

The " Natwest 3 " jailed for wire fraud in 2008. Picture a banker tossing a coin ten times. She knows the more tails she gets, the...

Nostalgia seems like a distraction in a world that’s moving forward. But new research proposes a powerful function of the emotion: as a glue...

When we look at our lives, we tend to break them up into chapters, rather like the seasons of a TV box set . Potential dividers come in many...

Guessing, even wrongly, is thought to activate webs of knowledge, which leads to richer encoding of the correct answer. It's well known...