It’s New Year’s Eve and one’s thoughts turn inevitably to ageing and all that goes with it. goes with it. According to physical anthropologists, one thing than goes with it is shrinking: one’s height reduces after some point in the 20’s due to compression of the spine. But I am not convinced that I am [...]
Below are some of the top psychology books published in 2009 selected completely by me based on what I read, book reviews and other “best of” lists. Also, great news — I have two of the books below to give away for free! I have one copy each of Scott Lilienfeld’s 50 Great Myths of [...]
First, I must apologize for the random emails for those of you who subscribe. I was in the process of adding and editing tags to all 300+ of our posts to make it more friendly and organized for those of us who teach Advanced Placement Psychology. I hit the wrong keys/clicked the wrong button a [...]
Take a look at yourself and see if you can improve your health in 2010. Over Christmas and New year we all eat and drink too much, it is nice but it has to come to an end.
I know that I have put on weight, and I feel unhealthy. My asthma is worse, as is [...]
Throughout the last year, our research group here has given a number of talks to political parties, government agencies and voluntary groups. These have been conducted in formal settings such as the third crisis conference, as well as a substantial number of internal sessions conducted in Geary and outside, including briefings to the Commission on [...]
Summary:Depression can come on us at any time of the year. Sometimes, holidays are the worst times for those that feel this down-in-the-dumps fear and worry and things just seem to happen to make us feel gloomy and sad. Note that this feeling happens to all of us at one time or another. How to [...]
Starting in mid-January, the following is a partial list of some of the books I want to cover in the next few months if people are interested in sparing a few hours off-campus. Recent sessions included Theory of Justice, Animal Spirits, The Politics, Theory of Moral Sentiments and Nudge. Michael Collins in TCD got me [...]
Although the time for letters has past for the fall, I suspect that many of us will be writing letters in the spring for our students, either for college/university acceptance. Because of the perception of psychology teachers as having some kind of special knowledge/insights about people, we are often asked for letters.
While I am no [...]
Cuz we’re all sick of the last one.
FD likes to go over the events of the year in December, has been obsessing about this for about a week. Between the two of us, without a blog to record them (for this is not that kind of blog), we try to remember what has happened to [...]
A nice review by Deaton of Nudge and related matters
http://www.princeton.edu/~deaton/downloads/Are_Economists_Human.pdf