Good+Reads

Can We Learn to Forget Our Memories?, NPR, 9/3/12

Top Ten Psychology Studies, PsychBlog

New Jersey Court Issues Guidance for Juries About Reliability of Eyewitnesses, New York Times, 7/19/2012

The (Monkey) Business of Recognizing Words, NPR, 4/12/12

Scientists find genetic link to ausitm NYT, April 4 2012

Neuroscientists Battle Furiously Over Jennifer Aniston, NPR, 3/30/12

Take Your Dog to the Office and Stress Less, NPR, 3/20/23

'Imagine' That: Fostering Creativity in the Workplace, NPR, 3/21/12

How Your Brain is Like Manhattan, NPR, March 30, 2012

Easter Egg Hunt Cancelled Due to Aggressive Parents, NPR, March 27, 2012

Facebook May Not Be So Friendly For Those With Low Self-Esteem, NPR, March 27, 2012

What Happened to the Girls in Le Roy, New York Times Magazine, March 7, 2012 by Susan Dominus (this is a fascinating article on Conversion Disorder and the effects of extreme stress on individuals, and on a community--an excellent read!)

Pet Therapy: How Animals and Humans Heal Each Other, NPR, March 5, 2012

'Best Practices': Learning to Live with Asperger's, NPR, Feb 3, 2012

Quiet, Please: Unleashing the Power of Introverts, NPR, Jan 30, 2012

Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact, Psychological Science, Feb 2, 2012 (heads up: this is a proper psychological research paper--it's kind of long and official, but VERY interesting. For a very short synopsis of this research study, you can read the Huffington Post write up here and then decide if you want to tackle the original paper. I won't count the HuffPost article as extra credit though so use it to whet your appetite for a VERY interesting study!).

Is That CEO Being Honest? Tone of Voice May Tell A Lot, NPR, Feb 2, 2012

Addicts' Brains May Be Wired at Birth for Less Self-Control, NPR, Feb 3, 2012

More to a smile than teeth and lips New York Times, January 24, 2011

Deception Diet: How Optical Illusions Can Trick Your Appetite, NPR, Jan 30, 2012

Ending Nightmares Caused by PTSD, NPR, Jan 16, 2012.

Does your language shape how you think New York Times Magazine, August 2010

Creating False Memories, Elizabeth Loftus, //Scientific American//, September, 1997.

Why a Teen Who Talks Back May Have a Bright Future, NPR, Jan 3, 2012

What Vietnam Taught Us About Breaking Bad Habits, NPR, Jan 2, 2012

How to Help Your Child's Brain Grow Up Strong, NPR, Sept, 14, 2011

Don't! The Secrets of Self Control, The New Yorker, May 18, 2009

Facebook Aims to Prevent Suicides with Online Help. NPR, December 15, 2011

Road Rage: A Symptom of Much More than Bad Traffic?, NPR, December 12, 2011

Cagebreak! Rats Will Work To Free a Trapped Pal, NPR, December 9, 2011

Joshua Bell, world famous violinist, plays in a DC metro station for an hour on his $3.5 million Stradivari violin... An experiment to see if people stop to appreciate beauty... Click here to read the accompanying article in the Washington Post about this experiment... media type="youtube" key="myq8upzJDJc" height="315" width="420"

Military's Brain Testing Program A Debacle, NPR, Nov 28, 2011

In Texas, Keeping Kids In School and Out of Court, NPR, Nov 30, 2011

After Duty, Dogs Suffer Like Soldiers, New York Times, Dec 1, 2011

Do People Pick Super Sized Portions to Boost their Social Status?, NPR News, Nov 4, 2011

//The Trouble with Homework,// by Annie Murphy Paul: New York Times, 9/10/11

Mental First Aid, NPR News story, October 10, 2011

New Approach to Traumatic Brain Injuries, Harvard Gazette, July 22, 2011

Psychiatry by Prescription, Harvard Magazine, July, 2006.

Why Do Some People Learn Faster? Wired Magazine, October 4, 2011.

IQ Isn't Set In Stone, Suggests Study that Finds Big Jumps, Dips in Teens, NPR, October 19, 2011

How to Spot Psychopaths, Livescience.com, October 22, 2011

'Fast and Slow': Pondering the Speed of Thought NPR News, All Things Considered, October, 27, 2011 (listen to the 7 minute interview with the author)

Smell that Saddness? Female Tears Turn Men Off, NPR News, Jan 7, 2011

A Blind Man Shocks Researchers With What He Sees, Seed Magazine, Jan 14, 2009 (Thanks Eddie for sharing!)