Feast
Introducing a new Digest feature: “Feast”, our occasional round-up of links to recent psychology news, gossip, podcasts, blog-posts and radio/tv shows.
04 August 2011
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BBC 2’s Newsnight had a featurette on memory on Wednesday evening (from 30 minutes, 40 seconds onwards), to coincide with the 5th International Conference on Memory at The University of York.
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The Developmental Neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop has written an open letter to Baroness Susan Greenfield, urging her to stop peddling unfounded claims about the internet and autism.
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Deader than dead: people in vegetative states are viewed as deader than corpses, reports Ed Yong over at Not Exactly Rocket Science.
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The Centre Forum think tank calls for a national parenting campaign to teach the population basic parenting skills, reports the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. (PDF of the report Parenting Matters: Early Years and Social Mobility).
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The August issue of The Psychologist magazine is out now and includes open-access articles on the psychology of holidays and a brief-history of gory brain-injuries.
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Higher education is burning out its employees, says new research covered by Alex Fradera at the BPS Occupational Digest.
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Psychology Press has launched a new journal: Religion, Brain and Behavior – the first issue is free to access.
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The latest Neuropod podcast has hit the wires, including segments on gut neurons and bird grammar.
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Ben “bad science” Goldacre presented a show for BBC Radio 4 on longitudinal research and you can listen to it on iPlayer.
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The American Psychologist is due to publish a special issue to mark ten years since 9/11. The Indy and other outlets are reporting that the terror attacks exposed how inappropriate psychological debriefing can exacerbate trauma.
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Hear Freud, Jung, Skinner, Milgram and other great thinkers in their own words. New BBC Four series is underway with the first episode available on iPlayer.
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The 2011 Royal Institution Xmas Lectures, entitled Meet Your Brain, are to be delivered by psychologist Bruce Hood.
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Channel 4 has started a new 3-part series looking at how buildings affect our health and behaviour. The first episode is available via 4oD.
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Psychological commentary from NPR radio on the US debt-ceiling negotiations.
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Scientific American Mind reviews The Rough Guide to Psychology, by Digest editor Christian Jarrett.
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A short from RadioLab features Bob Milne, a ragtime pianist whose brain appears to run on a dual-core processor (listen to find out why!)