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Maria Konnikova
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by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
Why do we like to eat flowers - and what are we gaining, health-wise?... Read more »
Kelley, K. M., Behe, B. K., Biernbaum, J. A., & Poff, K. L. (2001) Consumer Preference for Edible-flower Color, Container Size, and Price. HortScience, 36(4), 801-804. info:/
Mlcek, J., & Rop, O. (2011) Fresh edible flowers of ornamental plants – A new source of nutraceutical foods. Trends in Food Science , 22(10), 561-569. DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2011.04.006
Rop, O., Mlcek, J., Jurikova, T., Neugebauerova, J., & Vabkova, J. (2012) Edible Flowers—A New Promising Source of Mineral Elements in Human Nutrition. Molecules, 17(12), 6672-6683. DOI: 10.3390/molecules17066672
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
The links between green space and life satisfaction -- and a brief history of Central Park... Read more »
White, M., Alcock, I., Wheeler, B., & Depledge, M. (2013) Would You Be Happier Living in a Greener Urban Area? A Fixed-Effects Analysis of Panel Data. Psychological Science. DOI: 10.1177/0956797612464659
Diener, E., & Chan, M. (2011) Happy People Live Longer: Subjective Well-Being Contributes to Health and Longevity. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 3(1), 1-43. DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-0854.2010.01045.x
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
Why we shouldn't be so quick to judge when 'failures' of intelligence occur.... Read more »
Fischhoff, B. (1975) Hindsight is not equal to foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1(3), 288-299. DOI: 10.1037//0096-1523.1.3.288
Fischhoff, B. (2007) An Early History of Hindsight Research. Social Cognition, 25(1), 10-13. DOI: 10.1521/soco.2007.25.1.10
Guilbault, R., Bryant, F., Brockway, J., & Posavac, E. (2004) A Meta-Analysis of Research on Hindsight Bias. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 26(2-3), 103-117. DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2004.9646399
Kahneman, D., & Riepe, M. (1998) Aspects of Investor Psychology. The Journal of Portfolio Management, 24(4), 52-65. DOI: 10.3905/jpm.1998.409643
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
Popular writing hones the skills that are essential for success in academia.... Read more »
Kahneman, D., & Riepe, M. (1998) Aspects of Investor Psychology. The Journal of Portfolio Management, 24(4), 52-65. DOI: 10.3905/jpm.1998.409643
Kellogg RT, & Raulerson BA 3rd. (2007) Improving the writing skills of college students. Psychonomic bulletin , 14(2), 237-42. PMID: 17694907
Preiss, D., Castillo, J., Grigorenko, E., & Manzi, J. (2013) Argumentative writing and academic achievement: A longitudinal study. Learning and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.12.013
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
The first synesthete known to scientific literature... Read more »
Jewanski, J., Day, S., & Ward, J. (2009) A Colorful Albino: The First Documented Case of Synaesthesia, by Georg Tobias Ludwig Sachs in 1812. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 18(3), 293-303. DOI: 10.1080/09647040802431946
Simner, J. (2012) Defining synaesthesia. British Journal of Psychology, 103(1), 1-15. DOI: 10.1348/000712610X528305
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
Leborgne, Pierre Paul Broca, language, and the brain... Read more »
Broca, Paul. (1861) Perte de la Parole, ramollissement chronique et destruction partielle du lobe antérieur gauche du cerveau. Bulletin de la Société Anthropologique, 235-238. info:/
Lazar, R., & Mohr, J. (2011) Revisiting the Contributions of Paul Broca to the Study of Aphasia. Neuropsychology Review, 21(3), 236-239. DOI: 10.1007/s11065-011-9176-8
Dronkers NF, Plaisant O, Iba-Zizen MT, & Cabanis EA. (2007) Paul Broca's historic cases: high resolution MR imaging of the brains of Leborgne and Lelong. Brain : a journal of neurology, 130(Pt 5), 1432-41. PMID: 17405763
Domanski CW. (2013) Mysterious "Monsieur Leborgne": The Mystery of the Famous Patient in the History of Neuropsychology is Explained. Journal of the history of the neurosciences, 22(1), 47-52. PMID: 23323531
Lorch M. (2011) Re-examining Paul Broca's initial presentation of M. Leborgne: understanding the impetus for brain and language research. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 47(10), 1228-35. PMID: 21831369
STOOKEY B. (1963) Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud and Ernest AUBURTIN. Early studies on cerebral localization and the speech center. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 1024-9. PMID: 13984405
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
Twentysomething, emerging adulthood, and the reminiscence bump... Read more »
Svob, C., & Brown, N. (2012) Intergenerational Transmission of the Reminiscence Bump and Biographical Conflict Knowledge. Psychological Science, 23(11), 1404-1409. DOI: 10.1177/0956797612445316
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
The ending of "Huckleberry Finn" might be problematic for literary reasons, but not psychological ones.... Read more »
Solomon E. Asch. (1956) Studies of Independence and Conformity: I. A Minority of One Against a Unanimous Majority. Psychological Monographs: General and Applied, 70(9). DOI: 10.1037/h0093718
Thomas J. Berndt. (1979) Developmental Changes in Conformity to Peers and Parents. Developmental Psychology, 15(6), 608-616. DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.15.6.608
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
Was the GAN a way to create American solidarity after the Civil War?... Read more »
Foels, R. (2006) Ingroup favoritism and social self-esteem in minimal groups: Changing a social categorization into a social identity. Current Research in Social Psychology, 12(3). info:/
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
A look back on Muzafer Sherif's famous study... Read more »
Sherif, M. (1954) Status in Experimentally Produced Groups. American Journal of Sociology. DOI: 10.1086/221569
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
A follow-up to the discussion of the interplay of the humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences.... Read more »
Simonsohn U. (2011) Spurious? Name similarity effects (implicit egotism) in marriage, job, and moving decisions. Journal of personality and social psychology, 101(1), 1-24. PMID: 21299311
Simonsohn U. (2011) Spurious also? Name-similarity effects (implicit egotism) in employment decisions. Psychological science, 22(8), 1087-9. PMID: 21705520
Simmons JP, Nelson LD, & Simonsohn U. (2011) False-positive psychology: undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological science, 22(11), 1359-66. PMID: 22006061
Nisbett, R.E. . (1977) Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. Psychological Review, 84(3). DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.84.3.231
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
Are the humanities and social sciences relying too heaving on quantitative analyses?... Read more »
Pádraig Mac Carron, & Ralph Kenna. (2012) Universal Properties of Mythological Networks. EPL 99 (2012) 28002. arXiv: 1205.4324v2
Spinney L. (2012) Human cycles: History as science. Nature, 488(7409), 24-6. PMID: 22859185
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
An exploration of the origins and effects of anxiety... Read more »
Tye KM, Prakash R, Kim SY, Fenno LE, Grosenick L, Zarabi H, Thompson KR, Gradinaru V, Ramakrishnan C, & Deisseroth K. (2011) Amygdala circuitry mediating reversible and bidirectional control of anxiety. Nature, 471(7338), 358-62. PMID: 21389985
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
Sherlock Holmes is the protagonist of this discussion of expectations and the contrast effect in literature.... Read more »
Wilson TD, Lisle DJ, Kraft D, & Wetzel CG. (1989) Preferences as expectation-driven inferences: effects of affective expectations on affective experience. Journal of personality and social psychology, 56(4), 519-30. PMID: 2709307
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
An exploration of magic, secrecy, creativity, and the need for more openness ... Read more »
Leavitt JD, & Christenfeld NJ. (2011) Story spoilers don't spoil stories. Psychological science, 22(9), 1152-4. PMID: 21841150
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
Can memory improve our creative ability?... Read more »
Rosenbaum RS, Köhler S, Schacter DL, Moscovitch M, Westmacott R, Black SE, Gao F, & Tulving E. (2005) The case of K.C.: contributions of a memory-impaired person to memory theory. Neuropsychologia, 43(7), 989-1021. PMID: 15769487
Schacter DL, & Addis DR. (2007) The cognitive neuroscience of constructive memory: remembering the past and imagining the future. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 362(1481), 773-86. PMID: 17395575
Addis DR, Pan L, Vu MA, Laiser N, & Schacter DL. (2009) Constructive episodic simulation of the future and the past: distinct subsystems of a core brain network mediate imagining and remembering. Neuropsychologia, 47(11), 2222-38. PMID: 19041331
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
Does writing things down impede our ability to remember? This piece traces the relationship between memory and writing from Socrates, through Hemingway, to modern research in psychology.... Read more »
Kruglanski, A., & Webster, D. (1996) Motivated closing of the mind: "Seizing" and "freezing.". Psychological Review, 103(2), 263-283. DOI: 10.1037//0033-295X.103.2.263
Sparrow B, Liu J, & Wegner DM. (2011) Google effects on memory: cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6043), 776-8. PMID: 21764755
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
When I was seven years old, my mom took me to see Curly Sue. Though I don’t remember much of the movie, two scenes made quite the impression: the first, when James Belushi asks Alisan Porter to hit him on the head with a baseball bat, and the second, when Bill, Sue, and Grey sit [...]
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Smith, T.J., Levin, D. and Cutting, J. E. (2012) A Window on Reality : Perceiving Edited Moving Images. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21(2), 107-113. DOI: 10.1177/0963721412437407
Gilden, D. (2001) Cognitive emissions of 1/f noise. Psychological Review, 108(1), 33-56. DOI: 10.1037//0033-295X.108.1.33
Nakano, T., Yamamoto, Y., Kitajo, K., Takahashi, T., & Kitazawa, S. (2009) Synchronization of spontaneous eyeblinks while viewing video stories. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 276(1673), 3635-3644. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0828
Hasson U, Nir Y, Levy I, Fuhrmann G, & Malach R. (2004) Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5664), 1634-40. PMID: 15016991
Zacks JM, Speer NK, Swallow KM, & Maley CJ. (2010) The Brain's Cutting-Room Floor: Segmentation of Narrative Cinema. Frontiers in human neuroscience. PMID: 20953234
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
A stylized apple with a bite taken out of its right side: chances are, even if you don’t own a single Apple product, you would still recognize the ubiquitous logo. But have you ever paused to consider the symbol’s origin? Perhaps it’s Adam and Eve and the quest for knowledge, the apple a symbol of [...]
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Lombrozo, T. (2011) The Instrumental Value of Explanations. Philosophy Compass, 6(8), 539-551. DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2011.00413.x
Lombrozo, T. (2006) The structure and function of explanations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(10), 464-470. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2006.08.004
by Maria Konnikova in Literally Psyched
On the impact of mindset on intelligence, performance, and ability... Read more »
Dweck, C. (2008) Can Personality Be Changed? The Role of Beliefs in Personality and Change. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(6), 391-394. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00612.x
Steele, C. (1997) A threat in the air: How stereotypes shape intellectual identity and performance. American Psychologist, 52(6), 613-629. DOI: 10.1037//0003-066X.52.6.613
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