Pinboard: bookmarks for jtth tagged 'psychology'

F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. In a few seconds, their eyes move at amazing speeds across your website’s words in a pattern that's very different from what you learned in school.

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july 2009 by jtth

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You should follow me on Twitter | Dustin Curtis

I actually tried many more permutations than I show here. I only discuss the most interesting ones below and describe my thought process along the way.

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july 2009 by jtth

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Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Davids win all the time. The political scientist Ivan Arreguín-Toft recently looked at every war fought in the past two hundred years between strong and weak combatants. The Goliaths, he found, won in 71.5 per cent of the cases. That is a remarkable fact. Arreguín-Toft was analyzing conflicts in which one side was at least ten times as powerful—in terms of armed might and population—as its opponent, and even in those lopsided contests the underdog won almost a third of the time.

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june 2009 by jtth

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Test My Brain

Test yourself and help us learn more about the mind and brain.

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june 2009 by jtth

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To score, keep your goals to yourself: Study
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may 2009 by jtth

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English Lexicon Project - Home Page
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may 2009 by jtth

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Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk
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may 2009 by jtth

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Classics in the History of Psychology -- Topic Index
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may 2009 by jtth

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Psychology Tutorials and Demonstrations
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may 2009 by jtth

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Psychonomic Symposium

As cognitive modeling continues to grow in popularity, it is important that cognitive psychologists in general and future modelers in particular, entertain this question. Answers are difficult to come by in the literature. Equally scarce are discussions of why one style of modeling might be chosen over another (mathematical vs. connectionist). The purpose of this symposium is to stimulate public discourse on the topic by having researchers familiar with both modeling and experimentation present their views, thereby highlighting the similarities and differences between styles of modeling. Three researchers (Shiffrin, Plaut, Batchelder) will provide answers to a common set of questions in the context of their style of modeling:

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may 2009 by jtth

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Electrical stimulation produces feelings of free will : Not Exactly Rocket Science

Nerves in the limb send messages back to your brain, but the subjective experience you have of stretching isn't due to these signals. The feeling that you willed your arm into motion, and the realisation that you moved it at all, are both the result of an area at the back of your brain called the posterior parietal cortex. This region helped to produce the intention to move, and predicted what the movement would feel like, all before you twitched a single muscle.

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may 2009 by jtth

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Findings - Ear Plugs to Lasers - The Science of Concentration - NYTimes.com

The book’s theme, which Ms. Gallagher chose after she learned she had an especially nasty form of cancer, is borrowed from the psychologist William James: “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” You can lead a miserable life by obsessing on problems. You can drive yourself crazy trying to multitask and answer every e-mail message instantly.

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may 2009 by jtth

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Marginal Revolution: Can people distinguish pâté from dog food?

Considering the similarity of its ingredients, canned dog food could be a suitable and inexpensive substitute for pâté or processed blended meat products such as Spam or liverwurst. However, the social stigma associated with the human consumption of pet food makes an unbiased comparison challenging. To prevent bias, Newman's Own dog food was prepared with a food processor to have the texture and appearance of a liver mousse. In a double-blind test, subjects were presented with five unlabeled blended meat products, one of which was the prepared dog food. After ranking the samples on the basis of taste, subjects were challenged to identify which of the five was dog food. Although 72% of subjects ranked the dog food as the worst of the five samples in terms of taste (Newell and MacFarlane multiple comparison, P<0.05), subjects were not better than random at correctly identifying the dog food.

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may 2009 by jtth

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Auditory Illusion

A very good question, indeed. Did you notice that the tones played by the keys sound sort of funny? They are computer-generated tones that are a mix of different pure tones. The frequencies of the tones that you will hear as a note "C" are as follows (actually, they are a tiny bit different from this, but we chose this set of numbers because the math was easy for someone who does a lot of computer stuff):

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may 2009 by jtth

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What Can Cognitive Psychology Do For Teachers? | Britannica Blog
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april 2009 by jtth

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Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion

Now that on-the-job experimentation has taken an academic turn. A couple of years ago, Teller joined a coterie of illusionists and tricksters recruited by Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, to look at the neuroscience of magic. Last summer, that work culminated in an article for the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience called "Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic." Teller was one of the coauthors, and its publication was a signal event in a field some researchers are calling magicology, the mining of stage illusions for insights into brain function.

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april 2009 by jtth

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Can internal 'brain music' be used in therapy? - science-in-society - 24 April 2009 - New Scientist
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april 2009 by jtth

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Think memory worsens with age? Then yours probably will (4/25/2009)

Thinking your memory will get worse as you get older may actually be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that senior citizens who think older people should perform poorly on tests of memory actually score much worse than seniors who do not buy in to negative stereotypes about aging and memory loss.

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april 2009 by jtth

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garry's posterous - Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Joshua Schachter (of del.icio.us fame) recently ran a simple study around expected value, and got about 2100 responses in an hour for the low low price of around $30 on Mechanical Turk -- enough to get some interesting results really in just one night, and be able to at least make some interesting observations about human decision making.

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april 2009 by jtth

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2008-02-mech-turk-online-experiments-chi1049-kittur.pdf (application/pdf Object)
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april 2009 by jtth

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etalog: Psychology research with Mechanical Turk

With Mechanical Turk, it's possible to do in one shot a study that would otherwise require a meta-analysis of several studies across particular locations or demographics. With more consistent data and larger populations, data can be reusable.

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april 2009 by jtth

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tweenbots | kacie kinzer

In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.

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april 2009 by jtth

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Ed Vul - Crowd within

Some interesting cognitive psychology: We know that if two people guess the answer to a trivia question (How many people live in New York), the average of their answer is more accurate than either answer alone. What if one person guesses twice? Same thing!

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february 2009 by jtth

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Table of Contents

Pretty much all of JJ Gibson's writing (at least most of the post-cognitive stuff)

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december 2008 by jtth

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Researchers discover new mechanism for attentional control in the human brain
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december 2008 by jtth

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Bill Higgins :: the Uncanny Valley of user interface design

There’s a lesson here for software designers, and one that I’ve talked about recently - we must ensure that we design our applications to remain consistent with the environment in which our software runs. In more concrete terms: a Windows application should look and feel like a Windows application, a Mac application should look and feel like a Mac application, and a web application should look and feel like a web application.

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december 2008 by jtth

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The “broken windows” theory of crime is correct | Can the can | The Economist

Clearly, cyclists are easily influenced by their surroundings.

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november 2008 by jtth

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The McCollough Effect - An On-line Science Exhibit
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november 2008 by jtth

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Edge 262
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october 2008 by jtth

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Stress: Portrait of a Killer » National Geographic Documentary with Robert Sapolsky (Stanford University)
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october 2008 by jtth

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NYC - Like War Itself, Effects of War Are Hell. Ask the Greeks. - NYTimes.com

Psychologists use Sophocles to cope with trauma.

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september 2008 by jtth

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BBC NEWS | Health | Brain's counting skill 'built-in'

Humans have an in-built ability to do mathematics even if they do not have the language to express it, a research team has suggested.

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august 2008 by jtth

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intro

As trite and simple as this is, I really like it.

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august 2008 by jtth

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Overcoming Bias: Planning Fallacy

So there is a fairly reliable way to fix the planning fallacy, if you're doing something broadly similar to a reference class of previous projects. Just ask how long similar projects have taken in the past, without considering any of the special propertie

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june 2008 by jtth

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Psychonomic Society Publications

The Psychonomic Society promotes the communication of scientific research in psychology and allied sciences. Its members are qualified to conduct and supervise scientific research, must hold the PhD degree or equivalent, and must have published significan

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april 2008 by jtth

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Study Ties Genetic Variations to Schizophrenia - New York Times

A new study has found that rare and previously undetectable genetic variations may significantly increase the risk that a person will develop schizophrenia.

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march 2008 by jtth

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The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know

A really beautiful article illuminating that which I've always thought: autism is not a disorder.

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february 2008 by jtth

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Simulations
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february 2008 by jtth

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Welcome to Cogprints - Cogprints
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february 2008 by jtth

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Heinrich-Heine-Universität - Institut für experimentelle Psychologie
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february 2008 by jtth

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Seed: Questioning Consciousness

A discussion of qualia among other things.

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february 2008 by jtth

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inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ‘On the design of the first-run assistant’
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january 2008 by jtth

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Teach your brain to stretch time - being-human - 04 February 2006 - New Scientist
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january 2008 by jtth

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PLoS Medicine - Serotonin and Depression: A Disconnect between the Advertisements and the Scientific Literature

In the United States, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants are advertised directly to consumers [1]. These highly successful direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) campaigns have largely revolved around the claim that SSRIs correct

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january 2008 by jtth

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The Alternative-Science Respectability Checklist | Cosmic Variance
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january 2008 by jtth

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Drugs to build up that mental muscle - Los Angeles Times

APPARENTLY PEOPLE LIKE DOING STIMULANTS

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december 2007 by jtth

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Attention chronic non-finishers, I know your secret! | Jonathan Fields | Awake At The Wheel

Legend has it, famed Russian and psychologist and researcher, Bluma Zeigarnik, was sitting at a café in Vienna when she noticed that her waiter could remember the details of a large order perfectly until that customer was served. Once served, the order l

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december 2007 by jtth

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Human Brain Cloud: Play

An interesting game.

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december 2007 by jtth

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Picture-sorting dogs show human-like thought - life - 06 December 2007 - New Scientist

In the training phase, four dogs were simultaneously shown photographs of a landscape and of a dog, and were rewarded if they selected the latter using a paw-operated computer touch-screen. When the computer-savvy dogs were shown unfamiliar landscape and

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december 2007 by jtth

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Chimps beat humans in memory test

Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests

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december 2007 by jtth

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A List Apart: Articles: Greatest Copy Shot Ever Written

So what makes good copy good? Perhaps we can find out by considering what’s made the best of the best…the best.

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december 2007 by jtth

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Denial - Psychology - Mental Health and Behavior - New York Times

The capacity for denial appears to have evolved in part to offset early humans’ hypersensitivity to violations of trust. In small kin groups, identifying liars and two-faced cheats was a matter of survival. A few bad rumors could mean a loss of status o

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november 2007 by jtth

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Visions From LSD Psychotherapy

The following pages contain examples of artwork created by patients and experimental subjects, from the book LSD Psychotherapy by Stanislav Grof MD, published by Hunter House (Pomona: 1980 / ISBN: 0 89793 008 8).

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november 2007 by jtth

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Personality Test Center - IPIP NEO five factor model of personality
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november 2007 by jtth

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Blue Corn Comics -- The Basic Indian Stereotypes

Some stereotypes from Europeans to Native Americans, and vice versa.

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november 2007 by jtth

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Depression among Adults Employed Full-Time, by Occupational Category, SAMHSA, Office of Applied Studies
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november 2007 by jtth

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Nasal spray helps people fight their fears - Telegraph

A nasal spray containing an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis may help people to overcome their fears of public speaking, attending work parties or even performing karaoke.

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october 2007 by jtth

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Audiophiles and the limitations of human hearing « The Phineas Gage Fan Club

Why hardcore audiophiles are silly people.

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october 2007 by jtth

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APA Style Guide - M. Plonsky, Ph.D.
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october 2007 by jtth

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Spontaneous brain activity causes 'unforced errors' - being-human - 09 October 2007 - New Scientist

The reason why even professional basketball and soccer players sometimes miss an easy shot may be partly explained by spontaneous fluctuations of electrical activity within the brain, a study suggests.

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october 2007 by jtth

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Wired Science . The Engineer's Disease | PBS

Asperger's Syndrome May Help Make Some Scientists Who They Are

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october 2007 by jtth

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Mind Hacks: The false progression of Louis Wain

Almost every article on Wain uses them to demonstrate the progression of schizophrenia but the evidence for them being painted in chronological order is actually quite weak.

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september 2007 by jtth

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Mind Over Manual - New York Times

EARLIER this summer, the American Psychiatric Association announced that a 27-member panel will update its official diagnostic handbook, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The fifth edition, which is scheduled to come out in 2012,

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september 2007 by jtth

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PsychSplash

The PsychSplash Blog is an ongoing commentary and showcase of interesting, innovative and practical psychology websites and resources. The goal is alert clinicians, researchers and students in the field of Psychology to the wide range of online resources

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september 2007 by jtth

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PsychAntenna

Did you know that hundreds of psychology-related websites, blogs and journals use a technology called RSS (Really Simply Syndication) to help keep their readers up-to-date with the latest information? PsychAntenna is a long-term project to find and catego

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september 2007 by jtth

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Cognitive Daily: A new statistic begins to appear in journals: What the heck is a p-rep?

Article attempting to explain the p-rep statistic.

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september 2007 by jtth

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Society for Mathematical Pychology
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august 2007 by jtth

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Notecards | The Accidental Mind

Here you can download PDF files that will allow you to print out some choice illustrations from The Accidental Mind in notecard format. Print, fold and enjoy! Illustrations by Joan M.K. Tycko.

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may 2007 by jtth

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The benefits of persistence

Guy wins award for posting incriminating documents about the ongoing Zyprexa case. The award's sponsor? Eli Lilly.

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may 2007 by jtth

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