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visions of psychology

At the risk of turning this blog into an inefficient mimeograph of Mind Hacks, I have share yet another of Vaughn's finds with you.. This is just one image in a  sequence of 83 by Will Lion. He combines striking quotes and summaries of suprising research with even

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you spin me right round

Hopefully your new year's hangovers have now passed because following hot on the heels of the freaky reversing ballerina.. comes another ambiguous spinner.. click on the image to see the movie of a point light figure walking in a circle.. as before, you ought to see the figure

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You're the tops..

The clincial psychologists 'bible' - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders runs to 886 pages listing 297 things that could be wrong with your noggin. There's another version in the pipeline and the chances are it will be even longer. It's enough

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Thesis - Final Remarks

At the very beginning of this doctorate, the very first book I bought was Greg Murphy’s introductory The Big Book of Concepts (Murphy, 2002). At the time, I was charmed and delighted by the title. I could not imagine a more appropriate title for anyone embarking on any Ph.

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Reasons to be cheerful.. scientifically validated!

http://www.spring.org.uk/...de-2-minute.php It takes just two minutes a week to make yourself happier. All you have to do is sit down make a list of five things you are grateful for and you'll be 25% happier. Jeremy at the always brilliant PsychBlog summarizes

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New Humanist Advent Podcasts

My old friends over at the New Humanist are doing Christmas in style this year. Not only are they hosting several Festivals of lessons and Carols for the Godless. They are giving you a little podcast advent calendar. Day 1 is Stephen Fry and they have Alexei Sayle, PZ Myers

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Profit without Honour

There an excellent review by Adam Mars-Jones of the latest pile of Paulo Coelho in an old Observer. There aren't many authors more despicable than Jeffery Archer, who has at least written two half-decent books and is not fooling anyone. Paulo Coelho is a worse writer and a

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TEST CARD

As you may have noticed I've upgraded the blog software to give me all the lovely goodness of b2evolution 2.4.2 .. It has meant that I've lost some of my layouts but happily I didn't lose any of the content. But apologies if

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The genesis of 'gene'

Chance in the house of fate (A natural history of heredity) by Jennifer G. Ackerman (Bloomsbury, 2001) is a slightly frustrating popular science book. As you might infer from the title, the author is rather prone to purple prose. She much prefers to let the cool facts she finds flutter

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Brainiacs live long and prosper..

This week's Nature contains an essay by Ian Deary on the well-established but somewhat mysterious finding that intelligent people live longer. He cites one particular study of approx 1 million men who completed national service in Sweden. They were followed for 20 years and intelligence/IQ predicted mortality

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The Zen Cocktail

three years ago i made the new year's resolution never to drink the same drink twice in one day. That year I kept my resolution religiously and i enjoyed it so much that the next year I carried on in the vein.. but treating the idea more as

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Thesis finally finished.

Here's how it begins.. Rules and Similarity in the Development of Category Learning in Children and Infants The Purist I’m a Stranger Here Myself Ogden Nash never informs us what his conscientious scientist was sent into the jungle to do. But we may guess, based on our

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Francis Bacon says "Be the bee.."

The nature/nuture or Rationalist/Empricist debate has been going on a long time. This is kind of strange considering almost everyone who addresses always says that personally they think it's a little from column A and a little from column B. Not like their opponents in the

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Smart Tea

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Psychology is hard.

"Psychology has the bizarre quality as an academic field that it's both the hardest and the easiest thing to do. To really explain anything about how people behave is just hard. But to almost explain it in a way that's probably wrong - that'

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SPSS 16 = Stupid Pile of Stupid Shit x 16

I have always hated SPSS, the statistics program unaccountably popular in British Psychology departments. It is badly designed, it has very slow and very clunky interface. It has a very unintuitive set of menus with an untransparent way of operating. The results are shown in a very primitive and buggy

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Gorilla fundraising

My gorilla suit has arrived, I've purchased a pair of plimsoles, I may even start training any day now. Please sponsor me to help make it impossible for me to back out. Thanks

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run for the hills, the mountains and the lowlands

i never thought i'd say this but i am taking up jogging. since the first time they made us do cross county aged 8, i've known i am a dreadful runner, even when i was incredibly fit from 6 days a week swimming training i couldn&

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Blasphemy is a victimless crime!

After something like 50 years the British Blasphemy laws have been repealed. Link Seems like a good time to repost one of my own attempt at blasphemy :D Operation Clone Jesus Click for more..

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Disappointing the stupid and credulous since 1999

Either the silly season started early or they've finally run out of things to write about Diana & Maddie because for some strange reason the News of the World are now calling me. I just got a call from some guy asking about my cocaine order form on

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it didn't even touch the rim...

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Cyrano - Outshining his own legend.

My sister's first book was published a few weeks ago but I only got hold of it last monday when Amazon finally sent me the copies I'd ordered. (Hopefully this means they are selling it so fast they didn't have enough of them.) Although

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Boffins develop white suit

from Slashdot Meanwhile, I bet I am one of thousands of lazy and unimaginative people who use this image with this story.

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The Law of Monkey Brains

http://www.pointlesswaste...nkeysphere.html That's the whole thing, right here. Life on Earth, in a nutshell. We are hard-wired to have a drastic double standard for the people inside and out of our Monkeysphere and those outside make up 99.999% of the world's population.

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if these were real

if only the world was populated with things like these it would be much more interesting (and dangerous) place via Wooster Collective