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Psychology’s Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn’t Up to the Job
Our editor’s pick of this week’s 10 best psychology and neuroscience links.
14 January 2017
- Psychology's Favorite Tool for Measuring Racism Isn't Up to the Job - Almost two decades after its introduction, the implicit association test has failed to deliver on its lofty promises. By Jesse Singal for New York's Science of Us.
- BPS Response to Theresa May's Speech on Mental Health - Professor Peter Kinderman, the President of the British Psychological Society, has welcomed Theresa May's pledge to introduce new measures to improve mental health care.
- Do 1 In 4 People Really Have A Mental Illness Right Now? - Theresa May says a quarter of Britons suffer from mental health problems at any given time. But it's really not clear where that number comes from. By Tom Chivers for Buzz Feed.
- The Voices in Our Heads: Why Do People Talk To Themselves And When Does It Become a Problem? - By Jerome Groopman for the New Yorker.
- What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to be More Widely Known? - As usual, many psychologists contributed answers to the annual Edge question.
- Why Are We So Attached To Our Things? - I scripted a TED-Ed lesson on the psychology of ownership. The animation is by Avi Ofer.
- Neuroscience: The Risks of Reading The Brain - Russell Poldrack reviews a new book by Barbara Sahakian and Research Digest contributor Julia Gottwald: Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: How fMRI Reveals What Really Goes on in our Minds.
- Cognitive Science Suggests Trump Makes Us More Accepting Of The Morally Outrageous - By Joshua Knobe for Vox. But sadly, cognitive science doesn't yet have a remedy.
- Are You A Giver Or A Taker? - Newly posted TED talk: In every workplace, there are three basic kinds of people: givers, takers and matchers. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant breaks down these personalities and offers simple strategies to promote a culture of generosity and keep self-serving employees from taking more than their share.
- Op-Ed The Futility of Gender-neutral Parenting - By Debra Soh for the LA Times. Soh is a sex writer and sexual neuroscientist at York University in Toronto.
