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  The cheerleader effect: how you can look good in a group

  5 Nov 2013: People apparently look more attractive when seen with others than when viewed as individuals, so get yourself a band

• Music gives people a voice when words fail them at the end of their lives

  5 Nov 2013:

  Bob Heath: Improvising songs can open a vital channel of communication in palliative care

• The dark side of psychology in abuse and interrogation

  5 Nov 2013: Chris Chambers: A new report reveals the role of US psychologists in the torture of prisoners

• Bill de Blasio: a late-rising night owl for mayor of the city that never sleeps

  4 Nov 2013: The presumptive winner of mayoral election admits he's 'not a morning person'. Night owls of the world, your leader has arrived!

• Can a shot of humanities make doctors more humane?

  4 Nov 2013:

  Charlotte Blease: A course of 'medical humanities' is supposed to unlock the empathy so often missing in care, but evidence is lacking

• Immigration is essential (according to the science)

  4 Nov 2013:

  Dean Burnett: Counter to what many might say, the data suggests that immigration is essential

• Science Weekly podcast: the problem with drugs for mental illness

  Audio (52min 50sec), 4 Nov 2013:

  Dr Joanna Moncrieff argues that drugs for depression and schizophrenia are not getting to the root of these conditions

• The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen – review

  2 Nov 2013:

  Josh Cohen's study of our need to expose our own private lives and those of others is both perceptive and engaging, writes Lisa Appignanesi

• Jealousy: it's in your genes

  1 Nov 2013:

  Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman: The green-eyed monster may be hardwired into our DNA, but there is a lot we can do to keep it under control

• Dogs communicate different feelings with right or leftward tail wagging

  31 Oct 2013: A dog can distinguish a happy, friendly pooch from an anxious, threatening one from the way it wags its tail

• Keep the mornings honest, the afternoons for lying and cheating

  31 Oct 2013: Paul MacInnes: A recently published Harvard study suggests that we're more likely to be economical with the truth when our brain gets tired

• Robert Farr obituary

  31 Oct 2013:

  Other lives: Internationally recognised psychologist with a prodigious academic output

• Bernard Fox obituary

  31 Oct 2013:

  Other lives: Pathologist who also developed an interest in psychotherapy

• Zombies, cognitive dissonance and you

  31 Oct 2013: Pete Etchells: Would it be morally ambiguous to kill a zombie? Thinking about it before the apocalypse might mean the difference between life and death. Just make sure you’re talking about the right sort of zombie.

• Babies remember melodies heard in womb, study suggests

  30 Oct 2013:

  Brains of babies who heard melody before birth react more strongly to tune after birth and at four months, scientists say

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