Editor’s Selections: Sports, drugs, crime, and trauma… what more does a scientist need?
September 15th, 2009 Editor's Selections No Comments
Dave Munger selects several notable posts each week from psychology and neuroscience. He blogs at Cognitive Daily and has a weekly column on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM.
- Don’t rush penalty kicks! If you play the British game of football (”soccer” here in the colonies), hurrying could cost you a goal.
- What does it mean to be addicted to MDMA? Where I grew up, the typical Ecstasy users were young teenage girls who hung out with creepy older men. But were they addicts?
- Proximity makes the heart grow more trusting. A study suggests that testimony is more believable in person than on tape.
- Trauma Alters Brain Function… So What? Neuroskeptic wonders how many pretty pictures of brains the world really needs.
