The Psych Student

A couple of weeks ago, in order to spur action on this blog some and sort of get myself in the right head space for heading back to class I signed this blog up at Research Blogging. A more interesting blog aggragation community I have not come across. Specific enough to be reliable, varied enough to be endlessly fascinating. And the citation tool is proving to be entirely functional for academic purposes as well as for the site’s aggragation needs.

In celebration of getting my act together and putting all my course registration materials in the post on time yesterday, I offer here five links from Research Blogging’s Pychology section that I found most compelling:

1. Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder: The Newest Mental Illness? I became interested in trauma through ITTP which deals with torture and war survivors. But is there a new thing now hitting The West? And does it show how possibly mentally vulnerable we are that a stock market blip can actually cause so much mental discord?
2. Developmental “foreign accent syndrome” – cases documented for the first time Can an operation turn a Yorky kid posh?
3. Real gods are stranger than fiction – for adults at least Unless, of course, you’re talking about the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
4. Is there a rape switch (Possibly one of the most heated comment-section debates going on, which reveals almost more about people’s perceptions, particularly men, on the subject than the study itself.
5. How we learn to judge the size of faraway objects This one was very interesting with regards to developmental and cognitive psych, but also brought the following clip to mind: