Psychology

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Fast Company July 2005 Alan Deutschman	Is Your Boss a Psychopath? Odds are you've run across one of these characters in your career. They're glib, charming, manipulative, deceitful, ruthless, and very, very destructive. And there may be lots of them in America's corner offices.
Fast Company July 2005	Quiz: Is Your Boss a Psychopath? Robert Hare has identified eight traits that define what he calls the corporate psychopath. Take this quiz to see how your boss measures up.
Scientific American June 20, 2005 Philip E. Ross	Math without Words Numerical reasoning seems independent of language.
PC Magazine June 28, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	Messaging Haze A new study found strong evidence that constant workplace interruptions, such as e-mail, instant messages, and cell-phone calls reduce mental acuity.
Reason June 2005 Virginia Postrel	Consumer Vertigo A new wave of social critics claim that Americans are facing a crisis of choice and that too many choices is the latest way liberal societies in general, and markets in particular, make people miserable. Here's why they're wrong.
Reason June 2005 Jacob Sullum	Psychedelic Revival Psychedelic research is returning to Harvard, where psychiatrist John Halpern plans to give MDMA (a.k.a. Ecstasy) to late-stage cancer patients to relieve their anxiety and to help them come to terms with death.
AskMen.com Matt Wilson	How To: Take Part In Psychological Studies Psychology is a vast domain that contains many disciplines. As a result, psychological tests are as far-ranging as the field of study they represent. Personality psychology studies personality traits and behaviorism.
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Tony Zizza	The American Psychiatric Association Is Actually The American Pill Association Psychiatry has become the legalized practice of prescribing pills, rather than the purposeful practice of assisting us with problems of the heart and soul.
Entrepreneur June 2005 Nichole L. Torres	Face Value We asked Naomi Tickle, author of You Can Read a Face Like a Book: How Reading Faces Helps You Succeed in Business and Relationships, to analyze a few famous entrepreneurial faces using her techniques. Here's what she had to say about Donald Trump, Michael Dell and Martha Stewart.
Reason May 2005 Jacob Sullum	Thomas Szasz Takes on His Critics In Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics, edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler, Szasz sticks to his guns and scores many points, but his responses are not always completely satisfying.
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