3Vote!
The Roar - the news that matters (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Night-shift workers should avoid drinking coffee if they wish to improve their sleep, according to new research . Night-shift workers should avoid coffee. A study led by Julie Carrier, a University of Montreal psychology professor has found the main byproduct of coffee, caffeine, interferes with sleep and this side-effect worsens as people age, the website Science [...]
3Vote!
CBSE News (Free subscription) | yesterday
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) WBCHSE Class 12 Examination (New Syllabus) Date Sheet 2010 West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) Class 12 Examination (New Syllabus) Date Sheet 2010 DAY DATE SUBJECT/PAPER (10.00 A.M. TO 1.15 P.M.) WEDNESDAY 17.03.2010 Bengali (A), Hindi (A), Nepali (A), Bengali (B), Hindi (B), Nepali (B), Santali, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu,...
3Vote!
CBSE News (Free subscription) | yesterday
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) WBCHSE Class 12 Examination (Old Syllabus) Paper II Date Sheet 2010 West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) Class 12 Examination (Old Syllabus) Paper II Date Sheet 2010 DAY DATE SUBJECT/PAPER (10.00 A.M. TO 1.15 P.M.) WEDNESDAY 17.03.2010 Bengali (A), Hindi (A), Nepali (A), Bengali (B), Hindi (B), Nepali (B), Santali, Urdu,...
7Vote!
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Edge Magazine: The most significant intellectual development of the first decade of the 21st Century is that concepts of information and computation have infiltrated a wide range of sciences, from physics and cosmology, to cognitive psychology, to evolutionary biology,...
5Vote!
The Brooks Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Philosophy Graduate Student Association at Texas Tech University (PGSA) would like to invite papers for submission to our Fourth Annual Texas Tech University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference. The deadline for submissions is now February 1st. Please forward this email to the graduate students of your departments, and please see the attachments for more details. Thank you. CALL FOR PAPERS 4rd...
3Vote!
The Duck of Minerva (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Annually, the University of Louisville awards significant cash prizes in five fields : Music Composition, Religion, Education, Psychology, and World Order. For about 15 years, I have directed the administration of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order . Basically, I chair the initial review committee that is housed within the Department of Political Science. The Award's basic purpose...
3Vote!
Sarkari Naukri-Govt, Bank ,Psu Jobs (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Dayalbagh Educational Institute ( Deemed University ) Dayalbagh, Agra-282110 Applications in the prescribed form are invited for the following posts. Job Details Reserved for SC 1. Faculty Librarian Grade - I : 01 Post 2. Technician Grade - I (Chemistry) : 01 Post 3. Junior Technical Assistant (Physics & Computer Science) : 01 Post Reserved for OBC 1. Demonstrator (Applied Science) : 01 Post 2....
7Vote!
Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
New Scientist has a gallery of striking photos taken from Christopher Payne's book that details his photographic tour of abandoned asylums in the US. In both the UK and the US, and, I suspect, in many other countries, there are numerous unused decaying mental asylums that have become obsolete as 'care in the community' has become the flag under which mental health services have been reformed or ignored....
3Vote!
with both hands (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
All the BS and nonsense about race by morons like MSNBC's Chris Matthews and courage by Planned Parenthood lap-dogs like Senator Dithering Dick Durbin fade like the memory of the scents Sweetheart Rendering at 34th & Ashland and the Skyway over Gary twenty years ago, when kids dedicated to the sweet science of boxing and school success come back to Leo High School. Yesterday afternoon I had the...
7Vote!
Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Colombia has an official Day of the Psychologist and you might be forgiven for thinking that it's a self-declared promotional event by the psychology association here, but it isn't, the day is established by law. Article 92 of Law 1090 establishes 20th November as the official celebration. Psychology departments around the country usually celebrate the day with conferences and parties. I was kindly...
3Vote!
MindBlog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Many broad claims about human behavior are based on experiments done samples drawn from western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies (i.e. WEIRD - the subjects of psychological experiments are mainly U.S. college undergraduates!). Henrich et al. argue in a Brain and Behavioral Sciences preprint ( PDF here ) that WEIRD subjects are particularly unusual compared with the rest of...
7Vote!
Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Neuroanthropology has an excellent piece on the late Lévi-Strauss and the development of the scientific study of cultural cognition and anthropology. The Book of the Week in the Times Higher Education Supplement is 'What Intelligence Tests Miss'. Wired UK has a short but sensible piece on 'how to tell if somebody is lying '. In a nutshell,...
3Vote!
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. (Credit: Image courtesy of Queen Mary, University of London) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Nov. 18, 2009) — Tiny insects could be as intelligent as much bigger animals, despite only having a brain the size of a pinhead, say scientists...
3Vote!
Musable (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The premise of Patt Lind-Kyle's new book, "Heal Your Mind, Rewire Your Brain" ($26.95 in hardcover from Energy Psychology Press) is simple: "The brain's inherent transformational process can serve as a model or guide for how we can train our mind to be less intense and busy, and free from chaos, fear, pain, and inner wounds." For the Nevada County therapist, effective training blends...
7Vote!
Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Neurophilosophy has an excellent piece on 'time-space' synaesthesia where affected individuals experience units of time - such as hours, days, or months - as occupying specific locations in space relative to their own body. The image on the right is taken from a BBC News article on time-space synaesthesia and was drawn by one lady to illustrate how days of the week appear to her. However, Neurophilosophy...
7Vote!
vokradio | 17/05/2009
Theories of Family Therapy, Based on the film: "Ordinary People" By : M. Azad Moradian The purpose of the following article is to help graduate and undergraduate level students in the fields of psychology, social sciences, and/or film be able to have a model of how to look at a movie from the perspective of their fields of study and write a paper utilizing their knowledge. In the following papers movies
Click here to see all comments
family
family therapy film
en - (not a member) - 31/10/2009
family
family therapy film
en - (not a member) - 31/10/2009
Quasi-thinker
Thank you for posting this up. I am not a graduate student or an undergraduate student in psychology, but I've always found interest in the human psyche--as...
en - (not a member) - 24/10/2009
6Vote!
vokradio | 21/09/2008
vokradio.com; The purpose of the following article is to help graduate and undergraduate level students in the fields of psychology, social sciences, and/or film be able to have a model of how to look at a movie from the perspective of their fields of study and write a paper utilizing their knowledge. In the following papers movies are analyzed, interpreted, discussed, and ultimately criticized a way