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Olivia Goldhill, ‘Psychology will fail if it keeps using ancient words like “attention” and “memory”‘,. ... They’re saying… psychology is using words like memory and attention which are (i) old, and (ii) folky.

clever pun on the English word ‘Fie!’ This is, in short, the rude stuff — banned books; sexual psychology and physiology; books of nudes.

OK, I’m back. September: do your worst! One of my favourite things at the evolutionary end of Psychology is when the researchers look at some component of our mental lives, ... persuasiveness of the portraits of psychology we get there.

ii) MANIPULATING THE BIASES! I wrote a cheery account of reading Michael Lewis’s book about the psychology pioneers Kahneman and Tversky.

It is Idiots strutting towards their own built-in obsolescence, accompanied by the sound of a Canadian psychology professor falling down a flight of marble stairs, pitch-shifted into a

Shakespeare was clearly familiar with the principles of faculty psychology handed down to the Renaissance from antiquity, according to which “imagination” is the part of the soul responsible for creating “phantasms”

GUEST CONTRIBUTOR. This post is by Emily Troscianko. (Emily T. Troscianko works somewhere between the cognitive and medical humanities, writes a blog on eating disorders for Psychology Today, and coordinates postdoctoral

song on the non-human parts of the soul draws primarily on Bryskett’s Aristotelian psychology in his Discourse of Civill Life, but it also echoes Marsilio Ficino’s account of

King Lear is not about the psychology of the aging brain, nor is it a true story, and yet it may have truth to tell about the psychology of the aging ... It doesn’t matter that the authors in question have almost never read the relevant psychology that

However, it brings the psychology of restraint back into focus, in a play where Macbeth, having fallen once, is capable of further, escalating violence.