Top 5 Psychology Articles This Month (Aug ’13)

Psychopaths, caffeine, embodied cognition, horrible managers and right-brain and left-brain personalities.

Psychopaths, caffeine, embodied cognition, horrible managers and right-brain and left-brain personalities.

Here are the top 5 articles published on PsyBlog in August 2013.

1. Which Professions Have The Most Psychopaths?

According to a survey conducted by psychologist Kevin Dutton—called the Great British Psychopath Survey—here are the top 10 professions with the most psychopaths:

  1. CEO
  2. Lawyer… more—>

2. What Caffeine Really Does to Your Brain

Some of caffeine’s effects are strange and contradictory. In many ways caffeine’s effect on your mind is much more about what you expect than what it actually does… more—>

3. Eight Easy Bodily Actions That Transform Mental Performance

People tend to assume that body language just expresses how we feel inside. But it also works the other way: how we hold our bodies affects how we feel and think in all sorts of fascinating ways… more—>

4. Four Qualities of Truly Horrible Managers

Surveys keep telling us that between 65% and 75% of people rate their managers as the worst aspect of their jobs.

Is this just baseless moaning, or are they right? more—>

5. Debunked: ‘Right-Brain’ and ‘Left-Brain’ Personalities

There’s a popular assumption that ‘right-brained’ people are more creative, while ‘left-brained’ people are more analytical and logical.

Now researchers have done much to debunk this idea by examining the functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans of over 1,000 people… more—>

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Psychologist, Jeremy Dean, PhD is the founder and author of PsyBlog. He holds a doctorate in psychology from University College London and two other advanced degrees in psychology. He has been writing about scientific research on PsyBlog since 2004. He is also the author of the book "Making Habits, Breaking Habits" (Da Capo, 2013) and several ebooks.