- Why Brains Get Creeped Out by Androids | Wired Science | Wired.com
- Safe Playgrounds Are Destroying Society
- A quick rip-off eases ouch factor | The Australian
- A Sure-Fire Way To Win At Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Seven Creepy Experiments That Could Teach Us So Much (If They Weren’t So Wrong) | Magazine
- Keeping the peace with the bar-strip lollipop – The Globe and Mail
- The Hazy Science of Hot Weather and Violence | Wired Science | Wired.com
- What everyone should know about the human eye | GazeHawk Blog
Archive for July, 2011
Androids, Playgrounds and Violence
In links on July 23, 2011 at 1:41 pmBipolar, Brains and Behaviour
In links on July 19, 2011 at 6:30 pm- Should you trust your feelings? – Barking up the wrong tree
- How I Overcame Bipolar II (and Saved My Own Life) – Michael Ellsberg – Need to Know – Forbes
- Lingering Lies: The Persistent Influence of Misinformation: Scientific American
- Is the Internet Warping Our Brains? – Technology – GOOD
- Daniel H. Pink: Why bosses need to show their soft side – Telegraph
- Dan Ariely » Blog Archive Teachers cheating and Incentives «
- Teller explains the psychology of illusions – Boing Boing
- Report published on Behaviour Change – UK Parliament
Tourette’s, Teams and Botox
In links on July 18, 2011 at 11:44 pm- The Advantages of Tourette’s | Wired Science | Wired.com
- Human behavior: To resist temptation, forget guilt or shame and think positive – latimes.com
- More Medical Schools Are Screening Applicants Closely for People Skills – NYTimes.com
- Defend Your Research: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women – Harvard Business Review
- Search Engines Change How Memory Works | Wired Science | Wired.com
- The Illusions of Psychiatry by Marcia Angell | The New York Review of Books
- Some Start-Ups Pique Interest by Invitation Only – NYTimes.com
- Tanya L Chartrand: Botox impairs our ability to relate to others | Technology | The Observer
Wars, Birth Control and Pain
In links on July 9, 2011 at 5:14 pm- Dead Wrong: Is Your War Protest Actually Increasing Support for the War? – Politics – GOOD
- How To Navigate The ‘Unexpected’ And Keep Your Cool : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum
- Shilling the Male Pill: How to Sell Men Birth Control – Health – GOOD
- People Cheat More If the Benefits Are Shared – The Daily Stat – July 07, 2011 – Harvard Business Review
- Sex, Rape, and Single-Sex Dorms: How “Virtue” Can Allow Violence – Culture – GOOD
- Specs that see right through you – tech – 05 July 2011 – New Scientist
- Jonah Lehrer on Pain Control and Psychology | Head Case – WSJ.com
- The Happiness of Matchmaking | Center for Advanced Hindsight
FDA, Fonts and Gadgets
In links on July 9, 2011 at 12:04 am- FDA’s Graphic Cigarette Images: Will They Work? – Association for Psychological Science
- Eliza: what makes you think I’m a psychotherapeutic chatbot? – Boing Boing
- Why Do We Like the Taste Of Protein? | Wired Science | Wired.com
- www.ereadia.com/research/How_Larger_Font_Size_Affects_Reading.pdf
- The Promise and Perils of Hook-Up “Culture†» Sociological Images
- Each Half of the Brain Has Its Own Memory Storage | 80beats | Discover Magazine
- Why Gadgets Flop: Scientific American
- Lack of Sleep Leads to Unethical Conduct – The Daily Stat – June 24, 2011 – Harvard Business Review
Bias, Stupidity and Baths
In links on July 3, 2011 at 1:23 am- Stephen Jay Gould, Samuel Morton and Investigative Bias | Head Case – WSJ.com
- How Facebook Uses Feedback Loops: Meet Rypple | Epicenter | Wired.com
- Stupidity Is Contagious; Your Brain as Band Scout | Week in Ideas – WSJ.com
- Why Science Struggles to Correct Its Mistakes – NYTimes.com
- Walking May Increase Brain Size and Boost Memory
- Be Clutch, Don’t Choke: How to Thrive in High Pressure Situations (Part I) | The Art of Manliness
- How Love Makes (Some) Pain Go Away | Wired Science | Wired.com
- Hot Baths May Cure Loneliness: Scientific American Podcast
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