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Why CBT?
Read more: Why CBT?Judith Beck’s debut at the Huffington Post: The How and Why of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. [N]ot all psychotherapy is the same. Some modalities have a strong evidence base that demonstrates their effectiveness. Other modalities have never been shown to be effective. Yet they continue to be practiced by psychotherapists who consider an evidence base to be…
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Trusty Robots
Read more: Trusty RobotsPsychCentral: Robots Help in Study of Trust. To test the hypothesis, researchers had test subjects interact with the social robot, Nexi, in an attempt to judge her trustworthiness. Unbeknownst to participants, Nexi has been programmed to make gestures while speaking with selected participants — gestures that the team hypothesizes could determine whether or not she’s deemed trustworthy.…
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Voice Blindness
Read more: Voice BlindnessAn NPR portrait of a very rare problem, phonagnosia, or voice blindness: According to phonagnosia researcher Diana Sidtis, the part of the brain that allows people to distinguish things like age, gender and emotional content in a voice is different from the part of the brain that makes sense of whether or not the voice…
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Creativity Crisis
Read more: Creativity CrisisNewsweek sounds an alarm re: declining “CQ” scores. With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect—each generation, scores go up about 10 points. Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.
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Wide Awake
Read more: Wide AwakeAn NYT review of Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia, by Patricia Morrisroe. Morrisroe interviews an anthropologist who says that in many traditional, non-Western cultures people sleep on light mats, not beds, sometimes in groups around a fire. Instead of what the anthropologist calls our “lie down and die” model, people drift in and out…