Psychology

Magazine articles on psychology.

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Chemistry World February 2006 Michael Gross	Cupid's Chemistry Scientists are beginning to make some sense of romantic love through modern imaging techniques and a multidisciplinary approach involving geneticists, biochemists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others.
AskMen.com February 1, 2006 Vatche Bartekian	Had Enough Sleep Lately? Research from the University of Westminster shows that people who leap out of bed at the crack of dawn are less healthy, both physically and emotionally, than those who snooze on till the sun is well risen.
HBS Working Knowledge January 30, 2006 Manda Salls	Looking Behind Bad Decisions Harvard professor Max Bazerman explores how psychological science helps explain how leaders' decision making is influenced by such forces as parochialism, nationalism, and dysfunctional competition, while also providing tools that foster rational decision making.
Wired February 2006 John Geirland	Buddha on the Brain A neuroscientist published studies on the brain activity of Tibetan Buddhist monks during meditation, shedding light on the ability to change brain function through training.
AskMen.com Dustin Driver	How Weather Affects Your Mood What are the psychological and physiological effects of bad weather and what can we do to clear them up? Coping Sans Sunlight... The Barometric Blues... Relentless Rain... etc.
Entrepreneur February 2006 Jennifer Pellet	You Must Be Crazy A new study found that "functional psychopaths" make better investment decisions. The take-away for investors is that those who tend to be emotional may want to leave the management of their investment decisions to a trusted third party.
Science News January 21, 2006 Ivars Peterson	College Friendships and Social Networks Sociologists analyzed e-mail messages exchanged by 43,553 students, faculty, and staff at a large university over the course of a year. What they discovered was a turbulent sea of constantly changing relationships among individuals yet remarkable stability in the properties of the network as a whole.
Fast Company January 2006 Lucas Conley	Getting Inside Your Head A company that "fingerprints" brain activity to gauge emotional responses has attracted interest from Madison Ave. to the CIA.
Scientific American January 9, 2006 Philip E. Ross	Half-Brained Schemes If halving the brain of an epileptic child can suppress debilitating seizures without interfering with the development of normal intellectual abilities, what's all that gray matter good for, anyway?
Bio-IT World Dec 2005/Jan 2006 Kevin Davies	First Base: The Century of the Mind Last month, MIT officially opened the spectacular McGovern Institute for Brain Research. In total, more than 500 staff will be housed there, making it the largest neuroscience center in the world.
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