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Psychiatry: The dispossessed
Amy Maxmen views a prizewinning film that shines a light into the dark corners of US psychiatric care.
- Amy Maxmen
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Nobel laureate challenges psychologists to clean up their act
Social-priming research needs “daisy chain” of replication.
- Ed Yong
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Therapy deficit
Studies to enhance psychological treatments are scandalously under-supported.
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50 & 100 years ago
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A cooperative instinct
Acting on a gut feeling can sometimes lead to poor decisions. But it will usually support the common good, according to a study showing that human intuition favours cooperative, rather than selfish, behaviour. See Letter p. 427
- Simon Gächter
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Neuroscience: Idle minds
Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all.
- Kerri Smith
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Poked to vote
A Facebook message sent out during the 2010 US congressional elections influenced the voting behaviour of millions of people. The experiment illustrates the power of digital social networks to spread behavioural change. See Letter p.295
- Sinan Aral
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Facebook experiment boosts US voter turnout
Mass social-network study shows that influence of close friends raises participation.
- Zoe Corbyn
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A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization
Political mobilization messages delivered to 61 million Facebook users during the 2010 US congressional elections directly influenced political self-expression, information seeking and real-world voting behaviour of millions of people and their friends, with social transmission occurring mainly between close friends and having a greater effect than the direct effect of the messages themselves.
- Robert M. Bond
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Misconduct ruling is silent on intent
Psychologist Marc Hauser admits errors but not fraud.
- Eugenie Samuel Reich
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Advice for protégés
Novice entrepreneurs build business skills best when they trust their mentors.
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Forget passwords: How playing games can make computers more secure
A new security approach would let users input patterns instead of words to verify identity
- Larry Greenemeier
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The data detective
Uri Simonsohn explains how he uncovered wrongdoing in psychology research.
- Ed Yong
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How the brain views race
How do our brains respond when we see someone of a different ethnicity?
- Mo Costandi
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Psychology: Markets in mind
Investment bankers are addicts on a steroid roller coaster, finds Richard Lea.
- Richard Lea
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Environment and genetics: Making sense of the noise
The search for the genetic determinants of breast cancer risk is focusing on ever smaller effects, requiring larger groups of subjects.
- Anna Petherick
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New evidence on testosterone and cooperation
- Jack van Honk
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Replication studies: Bad copy
In the wake of high-profile controversies, psychologists are facing up to problems with replication.
- Ed Yong
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Psychology: The aesthetic brain
Simon Mawer relishes a masterful mix of neuroscience and art that focuses on the early twentieth century.
- Simon Mawer
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Science in court: Arrested development
Neuroscience shows that the adolescent brain is still developing. The question is whether that should influence the sentencing of juveniles.
- Lizzie Buchen
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Testosterone hinders collaboration
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'Brightness' fools the eye
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Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers
The social networks of Hadza hunter-gatherers are structurally similar to modern social networks and show signs of clustering in cooperative behaviour, which suggests that these networks may have contributed to the emergence of cooperation in early humans.
- Coren L. Apicella
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Psychedelic chemical subdues brain activity
Magic mushrooms' active ingredient constrains control centres.
- Mo Costandi
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Reversal of cocaine-evoked synaptic potentiation resets drug-induced adaptive behaviour
In mice, cocaine is found to potentiate excitatory transmission in medium-sized spiny neurons expressing the type-1 dopamine receptor; depotentiation reversed cocaine-induced locomotor sensitization, raising the possibility of novel treatments for addiction.
- Vincent Pascoli
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Psychology must learn a lesson from fraud case
Sharing data could help to avert scandals like the Diederik Stapel revelations, and improve the quality of research, says Jelte M. Wicherts.
- Jelte M. Wicherts
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Mental-health guide accused of overreach
Dispute grows over revisions to diagnostic handbook.
- Heidi Ledford
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Neuroscience: Capturing free will
Jacek Debiec enjoys two complementary books charting the psychology and neuroscience of decision-making.
- Jacek Debiec
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Verbal and non-verbal intelligence changes in the teenage brain
- Sue Ramsden
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Stress alters brain connections
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Time to legislate for the good life
Charles Seaford argues that a clear measure of well-being should be devised to help people judge how government policies affect their quality of life.
- Charles Seaford
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Selection for positive illusions
Everybody knows that overconfidence can be foolhardy. But a study reveals that having an overly positive self-image might confer an evolutionary advantage if the rewards outweigh the risks. See Letter p.317
- Matthijs van Veelen
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Romance beats science
When thoughts turn to romance, young women have less interest in science, says study.
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Psychology: Asylum art
The Prinzhorn museum shows how psychiatric patients' works have inspired artists, finds Giovanni Frazzetto.
- Giovanni Frazzetto
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Collaboration encourages equal sharing in children but not in chimpanzees
- Katharina Hamann
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Summer books
As holidays beckon, Nature's reviewers and editors offer a selection of reading for researchers away from the bench and lecture hall.
- Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Cellular cues to compulsive eating
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The voter's grey matter
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Psychology: How we form beliefs
Religions and superstitions may stem from the brain's ability to spot patterns and intent, finds A. C. Grayling.
- A. C. Grayling
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Terrorist 'pre-crime' detector field tested in United States
Screening system aims to pinpoint passengers with malicious intentions.
- Sharon Weinberger