by Craig Marker | Feb 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Mindhacks:Edge has a video interview with two of its creators, psychologists Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald, and an online version of the IAT which allows you to test your unconscious associations in relation to the US presidential candidates....
by Craig Marker | Feb 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Mindhacks:He’s made his case in an editorial for the British Journal of Psychiatry and debates his ideas in an engaging discussion in a BJP podcast. PTSD is the only psychiatric diagnosis where a clear cause forms part of the diagnosis. The...
by Craig Marker | Feb 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the BPS Blog:according to Jenny McMullen and colleagues who tested the ability of student partiThat’s cipants to cope with unpleasant electric shocks of increasing duration. The students were tested before and after receiving tuition in...
by Craig Marker | Jan 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from the BPS blog:Over two hundred Asian and Caucasian students were invited to take part in what they were told was a test of their personality and typing skills. During the typing part of the task, they were warned in advance that pressing the...
by Craig Marker | Jan 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
Mindhacks has an interesting article on how the low serotonin theory of depression has continued. Here is an excerpt:Bad Science has a fantastic article on antidepressants and the widely-promoted but scientifically unsupported ‘low serotonin theory’ of...
by Craig Marker | Jan 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
Authors of a December, 2007 article in Perspectives in Psychological Science discuss how extreme happiness may be related to less than optimal outcomes in measures of success. Their research points to moderately high happiness as being most highly correlated with...
