Psychology

Magazine articles on psychology.

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Psychology Today Jan/Feb 2007 Nando Pelusi	Mommy's Favorite Parent-child interaction is a source of pain as well as the most wonderful, keenly felt love and devotion. We may dream about unconditional love, but parental ambivalence is the more likely fact of life.
ifeminists February 25, 2007 Tony Zizza	ADHD and Coca-Cola Come Up Flat The selling and marketing of alleged mental disorders remains a part of our popular culture. Ever since the FDA finally put black box warnings on ADHD drugs for children, drug companies and the mainstream media have been trying to convince adults that they also suffer from ADHD.
Smithsonian February 2007 Eric Jaffe	Detecting Lies From chewing rice to scanning brains, the perfect lie detector remains elusive.
Scientific American March 2007 George Johnson	A New Journey into Hofstadter's Mind Book Review: I Am a Strange Loop, by cognitive and computer scientist Douglas R. Hofstadter, pulls out the big themes from his 1979 Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and develops them into a more focused picture of consciousness.
Scientific American March 2007 Michael Shermer	(Can't Get No) Satisfaction The new science of happiness needs some historical perspective.
Chemistry World January 31, 2007 Victoria Gill	LSD reveals its secrets A long-standing pharmacological mystery surrounding hallucinogens may finally have been solved by a new study.
Chemistry World January 30, 2007 Bea Perks	BBC and GSK Battle Over Seroxat The UK pharmaceutical giant, which has spent the past few years fighting off accusations of risks associated with its market-leading anti-depressant, has rejected fresh claims that it improperly withheld medical trial information in the 1990s.
AskMen.com Kristen Armstrong	Manage Your Anger Controlling anger is not always as easy as it sounds. Here are five tips on how to keep your emotions at bay, and even make them work for you.
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 Jim Baker	Systems Thinking and Counterinsurgencies This article presents the essentials of a successful counterinsurgency strategy by applying a technique known as systems thinking. Systems thinking has proven successful in other contexts at explaining human behavior, policy choices, unintended consequences, and the resistance of systems to change.
HBS Working Knowledge January 8, 2007 Jim Heskett	Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction? The growing use of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) devices for studying decision making means that in 2007 we may hear a number of striking conclusions based on studies involving a small number of brain scans.
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