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For anyone interested in the psychology of meat eating (carnism) I HIGHLY recommend this book by PhD in Psychology Melanie Joy

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows

If I could make the entire developed world read one book, that would be it. It’s mind blowing how many psychological defense mechanisms animal agriculture relies on.

This study also won the 2014 Ig Nobel prize in psychology

Edit: didn't realize there was no full text. Full text here.

For grad school, I took a class called principles of learning. In it, I read Make It Stick which basically spells out what you observed as the ideal method of learning. I highly suggest it. The book gave me a ton of methods to learn more effectively.

> "Collectively, the world is more stressed, worried, sad and in pain today than we've ever seen it,"

I would contend that this statement from the article is contentious. Was the world less stressed during the major wars that have plagued it? What about the cold war?

Here are multiple counterexamples of things going better: https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Better/dp/1250107814

Scroll down and have a look at the graphs

Lastly, this is a short time-span. Movement upwards could simply be regression toward/away from the mean

General Sun Tzu talked about this around 2500 years ago in The Art of War. He mentioned it in "The Nine Situations" and calls it "desperate ground":

> Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve. Officers and men alike will put forth their uttermost strength.

> Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm. If they are in hostile country, they will show a stubborn front. If there is no help for it, they will fight hard.

and, the same point, but perhaps more counterintuitively applied:

> When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

It's pretty respected advice. Last I heard, it's still required reading at US military academies.

Off the top of my head:

~~Stephen Jay Gould's~~ EDIT: David Sloan Wilson "Evolution for Everyone."
Steven Pinker's "How the Mind Works."
Albert Ellis' "A Guide to Rational Living."
Oliver Sacks' "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat"
Daniel Goleman's : Social Intelligence
Morton Hunt: "The Story of Psychology"
Victor Frankl: "Man's Search for Meaning"
V.S. Ramachadran: "Phantoms in the Brain"
Po Bronson "Nurtureshock"
Eagleman: "Incognito: Secret Life of the Brain"

There have been a lot of comments bashing the effectiveness of SSRIs in this thread. I wanted to post results from one of the largest studies done on some medication and CBT to show some strong evidence that SSRIs are in fact, clinically effective. This was on 12-19 year olds (this was when they were looking at suicide-meds connection), but generalization should not be too difficult based on the sample.

One experiment - http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/6/1/63

For more links - http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=tads+depression+study&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

There is NO QUESTION (this has been replicated ect ect) that there is some clinical benefit to medication alone, although it does much better (and is especially safer for teens) when done in concert with CBT.

While we may not know how exactly it works (its a debate in the field) there is little doubt it works, as shown by its effectiveness in a major double blind, randomized, control-group vs experimental groups experiment with a large N.

I'm sorry but this could hardly be a surprise. This blink is called an 'Attentional blink' or AB and it has been first described by Raymond, Shapiro, & Arnell (1992). AB is a phenomenon in which the second of two targets cannot be detected or identified when it appears close in time to the first.

Link if interested: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Attentional_blink

I've got your answer!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

Learned it from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

My favourite example of a supernormal stimulus: beetles lusting for orange beer bottles (pictures in link)

>The bottles resemble a "super female" jewel beetle. Male beetles are so captivated by the bottles that they will gird their loins and go through the expected motions, refusing to leave until they fry to death, are consumed by hungry ants, or are physically removed by researchers.

Here is the full text on research gate, for anyone who's interested.

One thing to note is that this is from 1996. Given the amount of social change and change in public opinion that's occurred in the past 20 years, it's not clear how much this would translate to today. It would be really interesting to see another study like this done today.

>I wonder whether online work changed things because there are few occasions for people to have conversations that socialize them into the ethical expectations of the profession.

Journalism didn't have ethical expectations a hundred years ago, because every story was sold on 'hot sheets', cheap 2-page papers sold by newsies. The most sensational headlines made the most money and there was zero accountability.

Then for 50+ years, journalists became dependent on monthly newspaper subscriptions and reputation and audience trust became paramount. Suddenly, ethics were necessary to do the job.

Now, news is all click-driven and we're back to zero accountability. Trust Me, I'm Lying is a great book about our current era of news and how it can be manipulated.

It's a combination of the two. Animals undoubtedly have differing responses on various cognitive scales that we would call "personality" (and animal personality is a popular area at the moment), but people also fall victim to basic cognitive flaws like confirmation bias.

The kind of anthropomorphism and observer effects that lead to mistaken or exaggerated beliefs about their pet is, more or less, the reason why psychology decided it needed to take a far more objective approach. It's all well and good assuming that your dog is 'gregarious' because its tail is always in the air but it's also good to check whether the height of the tail is at all correlated to behavioral responses that indicate 'gregariousness'. In the same sense (for psychology), it's understandable to assume that a rat is working for food because he's hungry, but we need to operationalise such a state and test it to see whether "hunger" is the actual cause of the behavior or not.

So yeah, it's a mixture. Animals do have personalities but people also attach their own beliefs and interpretations to their animals.

If you are curious about their brains, you should check out Soul of the Octopus! It is a great book, and was nominated for the national book award for nonfiction a couple years ago.

The author also wrote a shorter article that formed the basis for the book.

> Octopuses have the largest brains of any invertebrate. Athena’s is the size of a walnut — as big as the brain of the famous African gray parrot, Alex, who learned to use more than one hundred spoken words meaningfully. That’s proportionally bigger than the brains of most of the largest dinosaurs.

> Another measure of intelligence: you can count neurons. The common octopus has about 130 million of them in its brain. A human has 100 billion. But this is where things get weird. Three-fifths of an octopus’s neurons are not in the brain; they’re in its arms.

> “It is as if each arm has a mind of its own,” says Peter Godfrey-Smith, a diver, professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and an admirer of octopuses. For example, researchers who cut off an octopus’s arm (which the octopus can regrow) discovered that not only does the arm crawl away on its own, but if the arm meets a food item, it seizes it — and tries to pass it to where the mouth would be if the arm were still connected to its body.

Link to the actually study if anyone is interested. This a peer-reviewed source, not some bullshit survey. If anyone can't get to the full study let me know. Academic Journals are often restricted but I'm at Uni so I can get them.

> Dumped the rest in the toilet

Cringe Nooo!!! Whyyyy!!!????

Those drugs don't just magically disappear, they contaminate our water supply which we all drink, whether infant or old, pregnant or sick and vulnerable. Please, please, please dispose of them safely in the future by bringing them back to your local pharmacy.

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/drugs-in-our-drinking-water#1

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drinking-water-contaminated-by-excreted-drugs-a-growing-concern-1.2772289

Cognitive ability is still the best predictor of work performance across the board. See this article by I/O psychologist Adam Grant on emotional intelligence vs. cognitive intelligence

>Working with Dane Barnes of Optimize Hire, we gave hundreds of salespeople two validated tests of emotional intelligence that measured their abilities to perceive, understand, and regulate emotions. We also gave them a five-minute test of their cognitive ability, where they had to solve a few logic problems. Then, we tracked their sales revenue over several months.

>Cognitive ability was more than five times more powerful than emotional intelligence. The average employee with high cognitive ability generated annual revenue of over $195,000, compared with $159,000 for those with moderate cognitive ability and $109,000 for those with low cognitive ability. Emotional intelligence added nothing after measuring cognitive ability.

You're in way over your head, guy. IQ discredited? Get a clue.

The fact that you can change your behaviors, attitudes, moods, and beliefs means that you are not those things. You are not your behaviors, skills, beliefs, or attitudes. Then who, after all, are you? You are the creator of your thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs. You are the creative force behind the ability to change those things about you. Congrats for realizing that the old depressed you was never really who you really were anyways, and neither is the new you. Sometimes you will feel depressed and sometimes you will feel happy - these states don't define you as a person, but by experiencing both of them at times you get to be a whole human being.

I think you may want to check out CBT as others have suggested. Try this book for starters: The Feeling Good Handbook.

You can also check out NLP as someone else suggested. The main difference is that the aforementioned CBT has many studies proving it's effectiveness, whereas NLP does not. That doesn't mean NLP isn't effective, just that it hasn't been studied as much. You're likely to learn very similar concepts and techniques either way, so either one is good depending on personal taste.

Michael Persinger has a respectable 3.8 (out of 5) rating on RateMyProfessor.com despite his courses being a 1.9 on Easiness and the average grade of his raters is a C+: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=16162

Implying that he is interested getting a free pass so he can insult his students doesn't jive with his recognition as a lecturer for which he has received awards.

If you can't see how delving into provocative and 'offensive' areas can be educational, I suggest you re-read your introduction to psychology books where you will find many examples.

Note: I disagree with much of his research and his focus on proving paranormal bunkum. However, this discussion is about academic freedom.

I LOVE TERROR MANAGEMENT THEORY

if anyone wants a copy of the book "The Worm at the Core", PM me and I'll hook you up

Unfortunately, a lot of these books cover a lot of the same ground. If you really want a comprehensive introduction to Behavioral Economics, check out Daniel Kahneman's new book "Thinking, Fast and Slow."

https://www.scribd.com/doc/244002276/ViolentMediaandEducationAStudyofAttitudestowardsViolenceandCompetitionamongCollegeStudentsinSouthwestOhio

Hope you all don't crucify me, and of course, when you download the paper I apologize ahead of time about formatting...always a bear.

edit: Oh yah, this is my thesis. So...enjoy I hope.

This video: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

Also, I would share the studies about social networks and health. Can't find links but there are the famous Nursing home control studies (having control over environment-->life), the experiments where people with more friends can fight off colds better, etc. Those got me into psych.

Anderson's Cognitive Psychology and its Implications is a really great textbook. Ariely's books Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality, and Gigerenzer's Gut Feelings, are lighter reading, but just as good!

Is this the article you're talking about?

Job, Dweck, & Walton (2010). Ego depletion--is it all in your head? Implicit theories about willpower affect self-regulation.

If so, Baumeister just published an article which clearly seems to be a response to that paper, and shows that implicit theories about willpower only have effects to a certain point. I haven't had the chance to read the article yet (just got the email about it this afternoon), but it looks interesting:

Vohs, Baumeister, & Schmeichel (2012). Motivation, personal beliefs, and limited resources all contribute to self-control.

This and similar stories are why there's skepticism of the existence of "multiple personalities" at all.

There is no empirical support for the relationship between sugar and ADHD. It seems, that it has more to do with conformation bias. Parents who believe in the sugar/hyperactivity myth rated in studies their child's hyperactivity higher, when they were told, that their child had consumed sugar, even though the children had consumed a sugar-free placebo. e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephen_Flora/publication/257308874_Effects_of_sugar_consumption_on_human_behavior_and_performance/links/53fb52c90cf20a4549706f5f.pdf

http://gradworks.umi.com/15/60/1560371.html

Ok Guys these are the results from google docs. I will run analysis on them later on but for now I hope this helps everyone who was curious. Download the pdf here:

That was an amazingly great article. I just added the book it's based on to my Amazon wishlist.

Crime prevention is very common in some other countries! One that I always hear about is Denmark's unit. Here's a really cool story about some of their efforts: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/15/485900076/how-a-danish-town-helped-young-muslims-turn-away-from-isis

There is a similar study on the u-curve shape of happiness across ones life. They found it to be true of people from many different cultures and countries if my memory is correct. Here's a well written article on it. I think it talks about the study but I'm not sure.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-real-roots-of-midlife-crisis

What are yours?

I agree with The Principles of Psychology (James), Man's Search for Meaning (Frankl) and I'd add Being and Time (Heidegger), Inhibitions, symptoms, and anxieties (Freud), and The Analysis of the Self: A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders (Kohut)

The authors of this paper should be ashamed of themselves. Their results, in no way, suggest any sort of "life flashing before your eyes" event. The brain undergoes more changes while dying than at any other time. Of course, you're going to find differences in neural activity when the brain is basically collapsing. They are also not the first group to do this, as they claim. This paper, published in 2016, was groundbreaking at the time and offered much more plausible explanations for any activity leading up to, or in one case, after declaration of death. I understand that researchers will sometimes miss key work in the field but I do know for a fact that these authors had email correspondence with at least two of the authors of the 2016 paper about their paper. So not only are these folks not the first to do this, they lied about it to generate more buzz. This is gross, dishonest behaviour.

Edit for spelling*

they were reported in The Guardian article here http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/17/facebook-dark-side-study-aggressive-narcissism but you can also find the research paper here http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886911005332

Thanks for posting a link to this blog. I guess the author makes some valid criticisms of how the Guardian and CNN presented the underlying research findings. But at some point he seems to dive off a deep cliff, e.g. discussing his alternative ontology, idealism:

> Materialism serves powerful economic and political interests. ‘If our confusion suits the reigning political and economic regime just fine, it is because it stands as proof that the operation to supplant the dream-space of soul and psyche with a fully controllable interface is going according to plan,’ writes Jean-Francois Martel. What forces stand to gain from the continuance of materialism? How do these forces manifest themselves in society?

Instead, "...there is only universal consciousness. We, as well as all other living creatures, are but disassociated alters of universal consciousness, surrounded like islands by the ocean of its mentation" (source).

This blows my freaking mind. And my mind will be blown further as the neuroscience involved becomes more advanced. (I know, not strictly psychology, but neuropsychology and neuroscience are closely related in many ways) http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-reconstruct-video-clips-from-brain-activity

She may actually be on to something about the dopamine thing, but I think she's got it kind of backward. It seems to be an effect of blocked receptor sites not recovering as quickly for uptake than being too sensitive. If anything, it would seem introverts are too sensitive to dopamine blockers

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/epp/3/1/37/

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/019188699390118M

Good textbooks:

• Psychology By Carlson, Martin & Buskist
• Atkinson & Hilgard's Introduction to Psychology, by Smith, Nolen-Hoeksema, Fredrickson & Loftus
• Cognitive Psychology by Eysenck & Keane
• Biological Psychology by Rosenzweig, Breedlove & Watson
• Cognitive Neuroscience by Gazzaniga, Irvy & Mangun
• Thinking and Deciding by Baron
• Research Methods and Statistics by Coolican

Good, introductory-level books:

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Sacks
• Descartes' Error, by Damasio
• Predictably Irrational, by Ariely

Last night the Intercept streamed (permanent link) Noam Chomsky, Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, A Conversation on Privacy.

Chomsky addressed social media at one point, which he doesnt spend much time on, saying that it gave a person a sense of intimacy with others that is fraudulent. I have felt this to be a very real and growing dilemma these days. He spoke about a kid a from school, when he was young, that kept a physical notebook list of his "Friends", much like Facebook's friends list. But this kid didnt really have that many friends.

From the growing number of psychology studies and papers published, sounding the alarm over the the increasing, very real disconnect that the internet and most especially social media, such as facebook, are creating in our populations, I think we have created a new class of environmental diseases that are having damaging effects, some which may be permanent, especially in the the very young, developmentally.

To me, attention seems to be a major regulator of time perception. Anything that decreases attention (e.g., a repeated experience) speeds-up the passage of time. This is why we can drive home from work, completely zone-out, and we can't remember the drive but it seems like it only took a few minutes. Situations that focus attention (e.g., think about watching a clock tick-by) slow-down the passage of time.

I've noticed a link between time perception and attention under these circumstances:

1. time passes extremely fast under the influence of depressants (i.e., Xanax), which impair attention.

2. Time perception - as implied by music tempo - seems to vary from day-to-day. Some days, a song that I know by heart will appear to move at a faster tempo... some days, a slower tempo. This may be due to daily fluctuations in my overall attention span.

3. Novelty slows time passage, while routine speeds time passage. Novel situations require more attention than typical situations.

4. The time between falling asleep and waking up is perceived as instantaneous. Attention is largely diminished during sleep.

5. Individuals with attention deficit disorder perceive the passage of time differently. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891524502883262

TL:DR - Guy has a bad case of oneitis and has become codependent on his on again off again girlfriend, which has resulted in (or exacerbated underlying) anxiety and depression.

Get some professional help in the form of therapy and/or medication. Call 211 and ask for a sliding scale mental health clinic if you don't have medical insurance.

Done.

Well, it was this week, so you could easily find it on Hulu... :P But I'll save you the two seconds it took to look it up. Hulu link

What is one to make of said heritability being modified by economic class?

I understand and agree for the most part, but I think the that we must also take emergent properties of complex systems into account. If you are interested the best resource I have read is The embodied mind : cognitive science and human experience By Francisco J., Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch

It is also in Wiki, but not focusing strictly on the mind and cognition and the link will put you in the right chapter of the book.

Listen to this interesting talk about nurturing creativity. She talks about the positive creative ideas that come into our heads but I think it's also a healthy approach to have towards the more harmful thoughts that we can have. We can chose what we listen to and act upon but we are not our thoughts. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

If anyone wants to try for themselves in person here is a version you can print-out and fold. It's of a little dragon. I've printed one out on photo paper and kept it on my desk for like a year. Not only does it have the three-dimensional hollow illusion, but the head appears to follow you around as you look at it. It's very cool.

Found the paper on Research Gate and it seems not to be behind a paywall

Great list. It's exactly what I've been hoping to bump into. I'm about to finish Thinking, Fast and Slow, and then move on to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, but needed more books to add to the reading list for after that.

Here are the last few books that I've read that I would recommend:

Descartes' Error, by Antonio Damasio, which looks at how rationality, as we understand it, doesn't exist.

On Being Certain, by Robert Burton, which makes a compelling case for how the feeling of certainty is just a feeling, that doesn't actually accord with truth or logic in any way.

The Believing Brain, by Michael Shermer, which considers why we have beliefs, and how the brain has been shaped by evolution to see patterns in the noise of reality that aren't there.

In their own way, all three books make the same point: emotions play a much larger role in our thinking than we might like, or like to admit, and we don't actually have good reasons to maintain beliefs that aren't falsifiable.

Most of the book Predictably Irrational is irrelevant to your question, but there are some experiments in it involving how to manipulate prices people will pay for coffee in a (fake) boutique. The rest of the book is both easy and fun, so reading it is overkill, but painless and informative overkill.

That's not entirely accurate. I have read a lot of academic journal articles on the relationship between psychopathy and morality, and they absolutely refer to "psychopathy" specifically, not antisocial personality disorder. There is also a ton of research on psychopathy measures like Hare's checklist, and the DSM mentions psychopathy as a distinct variant of APD.

"Experts believe bipolar disorder is partly caused by an underlying problem with specific brain circuits and the functioning of brain chemicals called neurotransmitters."

"Nerve pathways within areas of the brain that regulate pleasure and emotional reward are regulated by dopamine. Disruption of circuits that communicate using dopamine in other brain areas appears connected to psychosis and schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder characterized by distortions in reality and illogical thought patterns and behaviors."

https://www.webmd.com/bipolar-disorder/guide/bipolar-disorder-causes#1

Hello! I am in search of a Psychologist would be willing to be interviewed on my podcast about the science and psych behind the way things affect us. You can check out my trailer here. https://anchor.fm/howtho

I would guess a good interview would take about 1.5 hours or less and I could send you the questions beforehand so you can get an idea of what we'll be chatting about.

It's less formal and hopefully the person who agrees will be ok with explaining some things in a "as if to a 5 year old" type way.

My first episode is on the Psychology behind to feelings we get when we see or hear a story of someone getting dealt the Karma or poetic justice they deserve.

Reach out on here if you are interested.

Thank you for your time.

J

has your professor seen this?

https://sites.google.com/site/gallantlabucb/publications/nishimoto-et-al-2011

i'm with you on neuroscientists sounding like phrenologists though. there's a whole lot of bullying and shutting down of non-orthodox thought and inquiry these days. it's important to keep in mind that most great advances in science were stumbled upon by accident and often by outsiders like einstein and bohr.

>after controlling for sex, age, training, hours worked, and position in the company

But they didn't control for one major confounder: cognitive ability. Smart people are better at identifying emotions; they also perform better and earn more. Are we just seeing intelligence at work here?

Relevant reading: Emotional intelligence is overrated.

>Working with Dane Barnes of Optimize Hire, we gave hundreds of salespeople two validated tests of emotional intelligence that measured their abilities to perceive, understand, and regulate emotions. We also gave them a five-minute test of their cognitive ability, where they had to solve a few logic problems. Then, we tracked their sales revenue over several months.

>Cognitive ability was more than five times more powerful than emotional intelligence. The average employee with high cognitive ability generated annual revenue of over $195,000, compared with $159,000 for those with moderate cognitive ability and $109,000 for those with low cognitive ability. Emotional intelligence added nothing after measuring cognitive ability.

The author of the linked article is Adam Grant, I/O psychologist par excellence. This guy isn't messing around.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, and the sequel, The Upside of Irrationality.

All three books cover similar territory of cognitive biases and how they affect us and the world around us. If you only read one I would go for Kahneman's - he effectively invented the field.

I applaud your use of your reddit resources, but if ur interested in studying psychology, i hope you're doing your own research in tandem. for eye-opening stuff, check out Ted.com

No, it's personality types. There's nothing supernatural here. The Enneagram is no more spiritual than the MBTI or Big5. Some people will try to make everything have spiritual applications, even a basketball. But is a basketball inherently supernatural? No, of course not.

Try Google Scholar or any other databases for articles about those things. I think they will give you more answer than a therapist would (he would probably search for articles on databases as well). I guess most of them would describe cases of those who act on their fantasies but you should probably get some answers in between.

[Academic] A crucial, worldwide survey on the triggers of suicidal thinking (Everyone, everywhere!) https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Suicide-Survey

This is being done by an esteemed psychiatrist, so please help, especially if you are from an English-speaking country!

Might want to give this a try: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2005&q=gaming+addiction&hl=en&as_sdt=0,4

--Psychology professor and WoW addict

EDIT: This one looks like a good starting place: http://www.akademiai.com/content/2242n53628240x4k/

Link to PDF

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian_Bird4/publication/303507804_Threatening_Men%27s_Mate_Value_Influences_Aggression_Toward_an_Intrasexual_Rival_The_Moderating_Role_of_Narcissism/links/5750807708aef67d0d898a8b.pdf?inViewer=0&pdfJsDownlo...

But other meditation practices hve exactly the opposite effect:

Transcendental experiences during meditation practice (research review -pdf)

...[in Cosmic Consciousness] Being is permanently lived as separate from activity. Then a man realizes that his Self is different from the mind which is engaged with thoughts and desires. It is now his experience that the mind, which had been identified with desires, is mainly identified with the Self. He experi- ences the desires of the mind as lying outside himself, whereas he used to experience himself as completely involved with desires. On the surface of the mind desires certainly continue, but deep within the mind they no longer ex- ist, for the depths of the mind are transformed into the nature of the Self. All the desires which were present in the mind have been thrown up- ward,asitwere,theyhavegonetothesurface, and within the mind the finest intellect gains an unshakeable, immovable status. ‘Pragya’ is anchored to ‘Kutastha’. This is the ‘steady in- tellect’ in the state of nitya-samadhi, Cosmic Consciousness.

Mnemosyne user here, but its development is so frustratingly stalled. It's hardly changed since 2008. I would point newcomers to a competitor like Anki... I just haven't switched because I have years of rehearsal data invested in Mnemosyne.

EDIT: I just checked the version history, and yep, the last major release (1.2) came out in 2008. The last release period (1.2.2) came out in January 2010, well over a year ago.

The last update to Anki, by comparison, was just 32 days ago.

Citation:

Swan, L. K., Skarsten, S., Chambers, J. R., & Heesacker, M. (2015). Why psychologists should reject complementary and alternative medicine: A science-based perspective. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 46, 329-339

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/pro/46/5/325/

freely accessible here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279448146_Why_Psychologists_Should_Reject_Complementary_and_Alternative_Medicine_A_Science-Based_Perspective

You have to be careful with that kind of reductionism. Your example with the lynching implies that the social environment considerably determines our cognitions and behaviours (and therefore makes moral judgments a subjective, rather than objective, matter), because at that time lynching was by and large a social norm, just like slavery was a norm for our ancestors. This means that one of the main things that need to be tackled in order to make the world a "better" (feel free to replace better with egalitarian, or humane, or pro-social) place is the social environment. In order to do so we have to change brains and environments in tandem, and I would hesitate to declare one more important than the other. It takes two to do the pro-social tango.

Have you read up on the Rat Park studies? It makes a good case study for why the environment is so important, and I think it'd be of interest to you.

Agree on Yalom. I've read all his books and he's been tremendously inluential on my own development as a writer. The gift of therapy was particularly helpful in my development as a therapist. Some more that have been helpful for me are Full Catastrophe Living by John Kabat-Zinn, The Time Paradox by Zimbardo, On becoming a therapist by Jeffrey Kotter, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, The Molecules of Emotion by Candace Purt, Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz, Emotions Revealed by Paul Ekman,
Psychoanalytic Diagnosis by Nancy McWilliams, and The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by Gottman.

Excellent article. This reminds me of the Ted talk on the paradox of choice. It's along the same lines, as the video seems to precede the article, with our multitude of choices eventually leading us to this state of decision fatigue. http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html

Nice! Although almost all of Skinner's experimental work was done with pigeons, not rats. (essentially everything past "Behavior of Organisms", 1938) see http://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=author:b.f.+author:skinner&hl=en&as_sdt=0,3

Uploaded it on google docs for you. Unfortunately I could only find it in German. Looks like there were two different studies that were similar. I found (II) and (III), if you want (I) let me know. The (I) article was one by someone else though (Willy Engel).

II

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Can you provide a source or link to said study? I hope you're not referring to Kanazawa's "Why Are African-American Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?", which is riddled with methodological flaws. This study was so poorly designed that we really can't draw any conclusions about the attractiveness of black women versus those of other racial backgrounds.

I'm reading this book by Zimbardo right now called The Lucifer Effect (http://www.amazon.com/Lucifer-Effect-Understanding-Good-People/dp/0812974441/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307987826&sr=8-1).

He goes through what happened in the Stanford Prison Experiment in a lottt of detail, day-by-day then goes on to analyze it. I'm not done with it yet, but just FYI:

• Zimbardo did not come from a privileged background. He grew up in NYC in the South Bronx. Part of the reason he wanted to study the psychology of evil is because of stuff he saw and experienced as a kid. (He also went to high school with Stanley Milgram!)

• Like everyone said, it's just HOW cruel the participants were (they were screened for psychological stability, there were anti-war activists in the mix, nobody wanted to be a guard when asked, everyone wanted to be a prisoner.) And everyone knew it was an experiment! That's why I think it's bewildering.

• The book draws parallels between the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal (which a lot of people did find shocking) and the Stanford Prison Experiment. The prisoner abuse was played off as a few rotten apples in a barrel but Zimbardo testified in defense of the guard Ivan Frederick because he so strongly believes in the power of situations. He wrote the book after the judge disregarded his testimony.

Zimbardo's TED Talk on the Stanford Prison Experiment & Abu Ghraib: http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html

It reminds me of this talk by Alain de Botton on snobbery. It seems that they are saying similar things.

I agree that it might be good to narrow your search. But twin studies might be a good start, because it's interesting to read about twins that were separated at birth but still have really crazy similarities. National Geographic did a cool article about it.

My entire life was altered by watching Dan Gilbert on TED talks (I'm now going to work with him over the summer). I enjoy going to TED and searching for the 40-50 videos tagged "psychology." If they feel oversimplified you can always use it as a tool to learn about research and then go find the psychologists more detailed work elsewhere

Please if anyone has a spare 10 minutes to fill in my questionnaire for my Masters dissertation. I'm investigating the relationship between body dysmorphic disorder, nonsurgical cosmetic treatment and self esteem. Participants must be 18 and over.

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Seems like a good fit with PET scans findings on brain efficiency, where glucose usage for a complicated task goes down as you get better at it (like this Tetris example).

If you're interested in creativity and mental illness, check out Shelley Carson's work on this very topic.

She was my professor, happens to be a fabulous lecturer and has really great insight into the creative brain. Her book, once you get past the slightly fluffy motivational aspects (my personal view- others may not agree) is also definitely worth reading.

There was a recent good study of violations of EEA. It found only trivial bias.

It is not really much of an issue. Even if EEA is violated to some degree, it doesn't matter much because we have convergent evidence from adoption and extended twin studies too, that rely on different assumptions. There is no parsimonious way to deny standard behavioral genetic results.

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Fantastic list! I would perhaps add Bakker's Blind Brain Theory, not because it's science but because it's interesting.

I feel like this title encompasses the journey of qualifying or even beyond qualifying as a psychologist hah!

I'm a Clinical Psychologist based in the UK and I have worked in mental health settings for a several years.

Recently I was reflecting upon my journey of getting to the stage of qualification and recognising how painful it all is. But more shockingly, how people rarely speak the honest truth about it and almost glorify the process.

But the pain is real.

There is pain at every stage.

Pain during your Bachelor's undergraduate psychology degree, striving to get the minimum 2.1 if not a 1st.

Pain during your Masters degree or PhD to keep your head above water.

Pain to get an assistant psychologist job with the fierce competition you face.

Pain to get onto the clinical doctorate programme.

You'd think it would stop there. But no. It's more relentless work, challenges you face and hurdles to overcome.

Yes there is the odd book out there on how to become a psychologist, but frankly looking at them they're pretty poor. They do not speak the honest truth.

I cut out the fluff. I don't filter.

I want to help people succeed in this career (the right people that is) and I want you to maintain your wellbeing in the process. I want to give people the help that I didn't get with respect to care, compassion and encouragement to strive and succeed in a healthy way.

This book is exactly about that - how to succeed AND maintain your wellbeing.

P.S., strangely it is not just for psychologists!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sh-Show-Becoming-Clinical-Psychologist/dp/B08N3K5DVC

When I was in high school, I spent my summers taking community college classes. If she is old enough and has enough time during the summers or the school year, I'd recommend getting her into a psych 101 course. Beyond that, there might be some benefit to exposing her to some lighter scientific journal write-ups, and perusing threads in this subreddit about recommended reading and checking out those books on Amazon. Depending on her reading level some of these can be great. I think Thinking, Fast and Slow is a great book to read. If she's more interested in skill building as opposed to just reading things of interest, I'd recommend she do that in an academic environment such as the class I mentioned.

-I've read "Predictably Irrational", which was great, but not very related to clinical psychology. It was more related to cognitive psychology/behavioural economics. I would still suggest you read it though!

I strongly recommend "How the Mind Works" it is NOT a pop-science book like some people have suggested. It's brilliant, and it covers a lot of things that you might learn about in undergrad psych lectures (only by reading the book you actually WILL learn them).

Finally, although I have never read it, my boyfriend swears that "How to Think Straight About Psychology" is BRILLIANT and should be an ESSENTIAL read for all psychology students. He's a psych phd and has read hundreds of psychology/science books.

Hope that helps!

Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. It's not too heavy and its an important book in humanistic psych.

This is incredibly common. I suggest two books; David Allen's 'Getting things done', and as another poster suggested Pressfield's The War of Art. I had this really bad 2-3 years after college, and still have it (7 years out) but it has gotten much better. I would also suggest getting this bullshit idea of 'success' out of your head and just focus on doing the shit in front of you very well every day. You may have to change what shit your doing but if your constantly doing that shit well you shouldnt have any problems.

This is a really good answer. Another thing that has helped me personally combat negative thought loops is the book Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman. It discusses the above mentioned event framing and some pretty good methods of evaluating and reframing perceived negative events.

"Learned Optimism" is not necessarily beneficial if it leaves people open to take unrealistic views or be easily exploited. It is also not a world away from the self esteem movement which has hardly been an unquestionable success. If anything should practiced in schools it is probably mindfulness.

Methodology and statistics are skills you have to acquire to be able to practice science. It's sort of like a foreign language that, once learned, will help you decipher the real meaning of all these fancy science-y things you read about in academic papers or hear about at conferences. It may be boring, or difficult to grasp at first but once you crack it you'll find it opened a door for you. Suddenly you don't have to rely on what authorities such as professors tell you. You are now able to evaluate others' work yourself, draw conclusions out of it, see what they may have missed and even better: conduct your own investigation of things that interest you, understand your results and share it with people who have the same interest as you. Psychology is (or strives to be) science. And science is about rules. Not only it seeks to find these rules (or universal laws) in nature, human behavior and mental processes, but science itself must also obey certain rules. If it didn't there'd be chaos. Scientists wouldn't be able to understand each other because each of them would speak a different language and it would take an extreme amount of time to learn the language of another just to be able to cooperate. I am an undergrad myself, hoping to become a cognitive psychologist one day, and this is my take on these "boring" courses. Except that I don't think they're boring at all. I think of where they can take me and I can't wait to put all these skills to use. It's possible your teacher isn't a very good one, but you shouldn't let that get to you. Maybe pick up a book that isn't a textbook. I have been reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Dan Kahneman. If you haven't read it I'm sure you at least heard of it. It's a light read and some methodology/statistics-related concepts, such as regression to the mean, are very well explained there. Good luck!

D'oh!

Look into one of these:

"Social Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman (Social Psychology/Neuroscience)

"The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker (Linguistics/Cognitive Psychology)

"Flourish" by Martin Seligman (Positive Psychology)

"Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely (Behavioral Economics/Cognitive Psychology)

"The Brain That Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge (Neuroscience/Case Studies)

"Feeling Good" by David Burns (Clinical Psychology/CBT)

"Coming To Our Senses" by Jon Kabat-Zinn (Clinical Psychology/Mindfulness)

"The Mind's Eye" by Oliver Sacks (Neurology/Case Studies/Vision)

Predictably Irrational

Influence

Flow

Authentic Happiness

Social Intelligence

The Brain That Changes Itself

Feeling Good

The Stuff of Thought

The Emotion Machine

I Am A Strange Loop

On Intelligence

Consciousness Explained

Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

The Mindful Way Through Depression

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

The Myth of Mental Illness

The Structure of Magic

The Crowd

Human Action

I like to get a wide-range of different perspectives. If you want to see more I made an Amazon store awhile back that I update every now and then: http://astore.amazon.com/theemomac-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=13

In the book that this image is from (Drive by Dan Pink) he does give more examples of how and when businesses use rewards successfully.

And actually, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey is a great resource for learning how to link tasks to a larger purpose and foster autonomy in people you lead (whether that be in a classroom, in a business, or in a family). An old, but ever-relevant classic.

I agree that the placebo effect is a ridiculously interesting phenomenon. Try this.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/eric_mead_the_magic_of_the_placebo.html

Where are you in your career? Finishing up undergrad? I have one academic article on my comp right now that is a review of the current state of research on the placebo effect and its mechanisms, but it's not available for free online. Let me know if you want to give me your email address and I will send it to you, or you can try to find it yourself:

A comprehensive review of the placebo effect: Recent advances and current thought. Price, Donald D.; Finniss, Damien G.; Benedetti, Fabrizio Annual Review of Psychology, Vol 59, 2008, 565-590.

Some children may have genetic characteristics, there however are also environment ( parenting) and neurobiological factors they may also be at play . It's impossible to give an individual cause without a diagnosis. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662

I have the DSM-IV TR in front of me, the DSM does not give known treatments in the diagnostic criteria. here is a link to the resources I mention below with the DSMIVTR's excerpt on BPD. Cheers.

here is a lecture on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy used to treat Borderline Personality Disorder from my clinical psych class, it was a guest lecturer I believe at UCSD Medical/the VA hospital. There's the powerpoint and the lecture recording, I hope it helps!

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But there still isn't a plan, and they really have admitted as much. The house and senate committees have until Jan 27th to draft something (some random sources). It's a pretty fucking bold approach

For anyone interested this article delves into oxytocin and it's role in human social behavior

Oxytocin, vasopressin, and human social behavior By: Markus Heinrichs, , Bernadette von Dawans, Gregor Domes

Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091302209000296

google scholar is always your friend. :D

You can specify year range on left hand side, would probably start by looking for a recent review and narrow it down from there. Good luck!

Mostly the lecture about new changes to the DSM delivered in my counseling class, which I can cite if you wish but I have no way of proving it. I'm on my phone so I can't find any great links.

Part of the trouble is that it's all still mostly speculation. What might have been better to say is that it really doesn't look like there is sufficient evidence for inclusion yet, though nothing is publicly finalized yet. If it does appear, it is theorized that it will likely be under the moniker of "internet use disorder," which may not qualify as part of the addictions section.

An (admittedly non-scholarly) article:

http://www.recoverytoday.net/articles/143-dsm-v-major-changes-to-addictive-disease-classifications

Google scholar results (usually require a pub med login to view articles):

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2013&q=internet+addiction+dsm+5&hl=en&as_sdt=0,38&as_vis=1

Most recent results usually point to a different name and concept (like IUD), or say it likely won't be officially included as a separate diagnosis.