by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. I have a small window here at the end of my work week to put together a quick post, so I wanted to spend a little time talking with PBB readers about a study I...
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Emotion dysregulation and suicide
Posted by admin 19 days ago (http://feedproxy.google.com)Be a Man and Get Some Help!
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Hammond et al. (2010) challenge the assumption that the more a man aligns himself with (traditional) masculine ideals, the less likely he will be to engage with preventative health services.... Hammond, W., Matthews, D., Mohottige, D., Agyemang, A., & Corbie-Smith, G. (2010) Masculinity, Medical Mistrust, and Preventive Health Services Delays Among Community-Dwelling African-American Men.
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Will, Baby, Will: Why Energy Problems Need New Thinking, Not New Oil Wells
Posted by admin 26 days ago (http://bigthink.com)
Providing adequate and sustainable sources of energy isn't a geophysical problem of finding supplies or a technological challenge of using sun, wind or gas more efficiently. It's a psychological problem: How to get people to think differently and behave differently. That, I think, is the lesson of this paper, published last month in the journal Environmental Science and Technology: Some 2 perc
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You can't anticipate everything
Posted by admin 21 days ago (http://theinvisiblegorilla.com)
How the illusion of knowledge coupled and the limits on awareness lead to inadequate security, bad safety protocols, and overly strong claims by consultants.... Wolfe JM, Horowitz TS, & Kenner NM. (2005) Rare items often missed in visual searches. Nature, 435(7041), 439-40. PMID: 15917795 Rare items often missed in visual searches. Simons, D. J. (2010) Monkeyi
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It's Like Cocaine, But No Fun
Posted by admin 61 days ago (http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com)
In a very interesting paper, Dutch pharmaceutical company NeuroSearch, in conjunction with Canadian research corporation Kendle Early Stage, report on Subjective and Objective Effects of the Novel Triple Reuptake Inhibitor Tesofensine in Recreational Stimulant Users.Tesofensine is a drug NeuroSearch are developing for obesity, and they report that it's shown excellent weight-loss-inducing prope
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Feel like I-dosing?
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A few months ago my facebook friends in the US started mentioning it. Only a few weeks later it appeared in the news in Europe, generating a lot of noise in Belgium last week when I-dosing or ‘binaural beats’ were condemned as a form of narcotics.The phenomenon of ‘binaural beats’ was first described in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. It is the sensation of hearing interference beats when two slig
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Cite more papers, get more citations?
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Nature News is reporting some interesting results presented as a paper at a meeting of the International Society for the Psychology of Science & Technology last week: articles published in the journal Science with longer "Works Cited" sections are themselves more frequently cited [$$]. A plot of the number of references listed in each article against the number of citations it eventually received
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Cognitive Inferences and Optical Illusions
Posted by admin 18 days ago (http://psychothalamus.blogspot.com)
Ever wondered what allows us to be so perceptive about the world around us that it's almost taken for granted? Or why it is so difficult to create a robot with human-like perception, intelligence and understanding?The discovery that the brain forms assumptions about the world in order to facilitate our lives has been one of the most illuminating insights from psychology and neuroscience.Assumptio
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