Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Mind Apples is a site that aims to share and develop ways of maintaining mental health in innovative ways. A community-based knowledge sharing community focused on mental well-being. Yay!
To the bunkers! Scientific America has a piece on how one research team are trying to personify evil in an AI programme.
Technology Review has some beautiful diffusion spectrum imaging pictures of the brain that illustrates the white matter tracts in glorious technicolor.
Men were better than women at judging infidelity, but are more likely to guess at cheating when there is none, according to research reported by New Scientist. The old high sensitivity, low specificity problem.
The New York Times follows up with an interesting piece asking whether these sorts of studies that rely on people honestly reporting their infidelities are reliable and looking at the changing rates of infidelity.
Guest blogger Becca Trabin writes an interesting piece about body dysmorphic disorder on The Trouble With Spikol.
The BPS Research Digest has a thought-provoking piece questioning whether brain-injured patients who confabulate, who seemingly produce false memories without intending to deliberately lie, are actually attempting to remember at all.
A brief tour through the comedic history of the US military’s attempts to create an ‘amnesia beam‘ is provided by Wired.
Neuroanthropology has an interesting piece on the influence of psychologists on the political messages of the belligerents in the US presidential election.
The recent study on the cognitive neuroscience of hate is dryly dissected by The Neurocritic.
The Boston Globe has an interesting piece on the neuroscience of self-control and describes the cool 4-year-olds and marshmallows experiment.
“Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels – and it means “beautiful thinking”. It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok’s book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.” BBC Radio 4 has a sample of each chapter. Reminds me of Gadsby, a whole novel written without the letter e.
Psychology Today bloggers are asked which psychological tests they’d give the US presidential candidates. Strangely, no one mentioned the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Another good BPS Research Digest piece on research showing older people are less optimistic but more realistic.
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