31 March 2004

Less choice is better for us
This story has been picked up all over the place. Barry Schwartz's arguments about how too much choice makes us unhappy are just general enough [...]

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25 March 2004

Suppress it and you'll dream about it...
The usual criticism of Freud's work is that many of his theories are largely unverifiable. Certainly no evidence has been found for two of [...]

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13 March 2004

Read all about it! Psychologist BF Skinner kept daughter in box like rat!
Some part of us as human beings is deeply opposed to experimentation on ourselves. Even if it is [...]

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12 March 2004

Less lying on email
"Students who tracked their lies for a week reported telling lies in 15 percent of e-mail messages, compared with more than a third of phone calls, 25 [...]

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Optimism provides no help against cancer

3 March 2004

Counter-intuitive evidence from a small study.
"A positive attitude does not improve the chances of surviving cancer and doctors who encourage patients to keep up hope may be burdening them, according [...]

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Does Your Life Need Shaking Up?

4 February 2004

I've been reading The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker. It restates the case for the strength of the genetic component of our personalities. Rightly or wrongly, reading Pinker's impassioned prose [...]

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Faking mental disturbance to test the system

31 January 2004

"In 1972, David Rosenhan, a newly minted psychologist with a joint degree in law, called eight friends and said something like, "Are you busy next month? Would you have time [...]

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