Boing Boing:
Behaviorally speaking, heroes and serial do-gooders have a lot in common with sociopaths, according to this paper on psychology and neuroethics: "their personality traits are very similar, with only a few features to distingu (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Letters to the Editor:
In their Nov. 15 Outlook commentary ["Is your therapist a little behind the times?"], Timothy Baker, Richard McFall and Varda Shoham stated that ensuring quality in psychology training programs is an important responsibility (Read More)
Huffington Post:
I've been blogging since June of 2006 and have not avoided controversial issues or people. But something I recently posted at Psychology Today, "Sarah Palin's Lies" (now posted in full below), elicited more vitriolic comments (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The subject reliably grabs attention, but the words in a good story are usually getting up to all sorts of other stuffNow then, Best Beloveds: the short story. If we're sensible and care about prose, we will agree that it's a (Read More)
Submitted by jeelchristine
from blog:
00:04:26: RT @larryczerwonka: never pass up an opportunity to do what you say you are going to do.00:06:15: RT @jamesrollins: At last! I posted the Altar of Eden prologue and chapter 1 on my website. To view, visit: http://t (Read More)
SFGate: Chronicle Op-Ed:
As President Obama ponders his next moves in Afghanistan, he ought to heed what the experts have to say about a seemingly unrelated field: investor psychology. Think of Afghanistan Inc. as a distressed company in which the U.S. (Read More)
Huffington Post:
"When I started my faculty position, I occasionally would bring our 8-month-old to work. On several occasions my colleagues (male), would say, 'So, you're babysitting today, eh?" If our son had been with my wife, no one woul (Read More)
Submitted by digiphile
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If the original Milgram obedience experiment weren’t scary enough, in the 1960s a researcher named Hofling did a variant in which nurses were ordered to give twice the maximum dose of a certain drug. The drug was not on the h (Read More)
The Guardian:
Hillary Clinton has taken the special relationship to a new level with a gushing appraisal of David Miliband, who the US secretary of state described as "vibrant, vital, attractive and smart".The extravagant compliments were (Read More)
Huffington Post:
I have yet to meet someone who hasn't been wounded, traumatized, scammed, betrayed or hurt. After such devastating experiences, we all have a tendency to shout out from the rooftops to anyone who gives an ear. This is approp (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Commanders jealous of cash available to US counterparts• Troops must understand 'cultural complexities'Money can be more important than force. This is one of the messages from the British army in its first counter-insurgenc (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
David Kynaston's new book, Family Britain, represents a big shift in popular historyJust how upset were the British at King George VI's death in February 1952? Very, the figures suggest. More than 300,000 people came that wee (Read More)
Yale Environment 360:
Even as the climate science becomes more definitive, polls show that public concern in the United States about global warming has been declining. What will it take to rally Americans behind the need to take strong action on c (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Thankfully, Hillary Clinton's new job isn't all work and no play. In a profile on the secretary of state in the December issue of Vogue, writer Jonathan van Meter reveals that the secretary of state has some very nice things (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Lovecraftians rejoice! Thanks to Lil Cthulhu, it's much easier to initiate our young ones into the magic of the Great Old Ones! Animation by Zachary Murray with the voice of Erika Fontana. From the video description:Meet litt (Read More)
The Guardian:
Alex Villaplane said captaining France was 'the happiest day of his life'. 14 years later he was shot dead for being a traitorThese days when we say a footballer went from hero to villain we tend to mean that he scored a goal (Read More)
The Guardian:
Women who took the drug during a trial reported more satisfying sexual encounters and a higher libidoA drug described as the "female Viagra" has been shown to boost sexual desire in women whose libidos are flagging, according (Read More)
Submitted by jeelchristine
from blog:
01:47:33: no internet for today, i have other important things to do.02:35:46: bought a book on booksale 'essays in individual psychology' 1959, contains essays by great adlerian psychologists.02:58:31: its not wrong to rega (Read More)