The New York Times Magazine is doing a special mental health issue this weekend, and the project I work on -- we're researching the neural correlates of transference -- is prominently featured. They even mention my name, though I am but a lowly R.A.! Extry,...
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because she's too femme. I really don't have anything to say to this that Be Scofield didn't already say better. I'll excerpt a little: The attacks on Jenner’s femininity represent.
This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones. When something is upsetting in a work of art, two kinds of responses are these: one is an expression of the private.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that UC Berkeley conducted a survey of rates of depression and psychological well-being among its graduate students. They are high, which, the Chron says "surprised and alarmed" the experts when previous results came out. The suprise of the experts...
This Jacobin article about the Germanwings disaster makes an important point about the particular case: pilots are increasingly a contingent, vulnerable part of the labor force, and this context should.
There can be very good reasons to refuse medication for psychiatric disorders, and everyone has the right to determine the course of their own medical care. In addition to concern.
... and I basically have been, in my heart, I will always love psychology because you can teach chicks to walk towards cards with dots, and it deservedly becomes a Science paper. This is so cool. The short version: The authors put some baby chicks...
I told Rob and Scott I was going to try to reform and be a more prolific blogger. I can be hobbled in blogging by perfectionism and the belief that.
My coworker, who is from East Africa, did not appreciate this image on the front page of USA Today.
Hi all! You may remember me from my guest blogging stint this summer. I’m supposed to be a new permanent blogger for LGM but I have been terribly remiss. But I saw The Fortress of Solitude, a new musical at The Public theater based on...
[Intro to Katie's theater reviews here.] In the beginning of The Lion, Benjamin Scheuer’s one-man mostly acoustic-folk musical memoir, he sings “Cookie Tin Banjo,” about a toy he had as.
Tal Yarkoni argues here that ethical concerns about the Facebook emotional contagion study are misplaced, for four reasons: Facebook only removed emotional content, and did not heighten or invent content,.