January 2011
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Study: Love Music? Thank Substance In Your Brain -... →
Jan 10th
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Anger at God common, even among atheists – The... →
Jan 5th
November 2010
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Nov 29th
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Nov 15th
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Nov 13th
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Nov 13th
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Is this evidence that we can see the future? -... →
Nov 12th
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Chaplain Mark R. Johnston: Military Suicides: An... →
Nov 12th
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Nov 11th
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Worker Rights Extend to Facebook, Labor Board Says... →
Nov 9th
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After Good or Bad Events, People Forget How They... →
Nov 2nd
October 2010
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Oct 5th
September 2010
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Study: Facebook Addicts are Insecure,... | Gather →
Awesomeness. Kind of want to post a link to this on some people’s walls… 
Sep 14th
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Why Football Players Pat Each Other on the Butt... →
Sep 8th
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Sep 5th
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August 2010
9 posts
Outgrowing "Adolescent" Body Issues? →
Clipped from: walkingwithnora.com (share this clip) I’ll admit right away that this post is perhaps best suited for my personal blog because it is, at least in part, heavily inspired…
Aug 22nd
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Ten Psychology Studies from 2009 Worth Knowing... →
Aug 17th
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Aug 17th
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Aug 17th
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Aug 14th
Gatorade + FSU? →
I only noticed this little irony because I’m such a huge college football fan (okay, all football really) and I’m getting incredibly excited about the start of the football…
Aug 13th
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Aug 6th
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APA praises Prop 8 decision as victory for... →
Yay!
Aug 6th
The Color Red →
(Somehow, this was the pic Cosmo thought most appropriate for their version of the story…) I’m always a big fan of psychology making its way into the “mainstream media”…
Aug 5th
July 2010
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Millennials Won't Change Work; Work Will Change... →
If we all concede this point, will we stop seeing the articles about how Gen Y and the Millenials will radically alter the world of work? Please?
Jul 30th
What I'm Reading This Week: HBR →
In honor of my internship, we have another intern explaining why he’s the most interesting… the video’s here, but one of my favorite sites - The Collared Sheep - has…
Jul 29th
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Jul 29th
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The Scienceblogs Scandal as a Study of... →
Jul 26th
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Gene Makes Some Drink More When Other Boozers Are... →
Jul 26th
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Jul 25th
Hippy-crite? →
(from the Washington Post story “Why going green won’t make you better or save you money”) I was SO excited when I saw the Washington Post’s Express today had a cover story about…
Jul 24th
Disheartening Neuroscience News →
(from Time Magazine’s “The Cruelest Study: Why Breakups Hurt” - from Getty Images) Again… an absence of posts from me! I’m disappointed in myself right now, but there are major life…
Jul 22nd
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Why Facebook friends are worth keeping - tech →
blackenator: tbh I kinda expected something like this to be the case. but, always nice to see something to support that viewpoint :P In 1973, sociologist Mark Granovetter showed how the loose acquaintances, or “weak ties”, in our social network punch far above their weight in their influence over our behaviour and choices (American Journal of Sociology, vol 78, p 1360). Granovetter found that...
Jul 16th
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Realism is the answer →
nullifidian-feed: Barbara Ehrenreich critiques positive thinking — and blames some of our problems on it. There’s a lot of truth here, and it’s also entertaining to watch. Read the comments…
Jul 16th
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Jul 16th
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Jul 16th
(Online) Identity Crisis →
Recently I was thinking about how envious I am of certain bloggers and other internet celebs that I think have it really “together.” They have a schtick and a theme and an identity that is, at once,…
Jul 12th
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“What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and...”
– Malcolm Gladwell
Jul 8th
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Jul 7th
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BBC NEWS | Health | Feeling grumpy 'is good for...
bklnpoet: An attack of the grumps can make you communicate better, it is suggested In a bad mood? Don’t worry - according to research, it’s good for you. An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly. In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments...
Jul 7th
July 2010 "On the Record" →
More fabulous quotes from the Monitor on Psychology (from APA) in the July 2010 issue… “Younger people, including younger medical personnel, often don’t notice [depression among…
Jul 3rd
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“While the type of alcoholic beverage consumed, overall, did not have an effect...”
– Alcohol May Reduce Men’s Heart Risk (Interesting to me that for all we hear about the benefits of red wine, this implies that variety may be more important. So don’t read for a red as if it’s medicine. If you’re in the mood for a Grey Goose, go ahead and pour yourself one.) (via hedonics)
Jul 3rd
Updates on the Blog →
(This is a peak at the Tumblr site.) I’ve been doing some updates on the blog… or just general exploring and trying to teach myself how to do things to make the…
Jul 3rd
June 2010
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WatchWatch
psydoctor8: The evolutionary psychology of war “Nothing too shocking here for students of evolutionary psychology but it’s always interesting to see real world examples of how our shared behavior. There is a new book by Sebastian Junger called War, in which he recounts how men do not fight for larger ideological goals (eg. “a safer Iraq”, “finding Bin Laden”) but instead they can overcome fears...
Jun 30th
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“The difference between criticism and contempt is that criticism targets what a...”
– John Gottman (via fcukuu)
Jun 30th
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Body Games →
thedailyfallout: An interesting discussion of the increasing trend towards physicality in video games, and the social science that underpins why it works so well for the Wii.
Jun 30th
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Don't think of about a white bear for the next...
that-sounds-electric: Reblog/ let me know If you failed. David Schneider taught intro psych at Rice when I was there… I always wondered if he thought about using something other than a white bear. Or how mad he was at his wife that she didn’t let him check himself into the mental asylum and then act like himself to determine whether framing and context affected diagnoses… 
Jun 30th
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Emotional Labor →
I have Google Alerts set up to notify me any time there’s an article on emotional labor and this was the link I got today… hard to tell what this source really is, but they have quotes from Hochschild, a definite leader in the topic, so it’s worth checking out… 
Jun 30th
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The Way We'll Work - The Future of Work - TIME →
Another Time magazine article that touches on the industrial-organizational psychology research and ideas!
Jun 29th
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Warning Signs That Something is Not Scientific →
How to tell when something just isn’t science… some might seem pretty obvious, but others are quite helpful!
Jun 28th