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Psychiatry: Therapist-free therapy | The Economist - 1 views

www.economist.com/18276234 Psychiatry: Therapist-free therapy | The Economist
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    Cognitive-bias modification may put the psychiatrist's couch out of business
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Open Economics - 0 views

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    Open Economics Working Group is run by the Open Knowledge Foundation in association with the Centre for Intellectual and Property Law (CIPIL) at the University of Cambridge. Its membership consists of leading academics and researchers, public and private sector economists, representatives from national and international public bodies and other experts from around the world.
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I Was Wrong, and So Are You - Magazine - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    A Libertarian Economist retracts a swipe at the left-after discovering that our political leanings leave us more biased than we think.
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Toxoplasmosis and psychology: A game of cat and mouse | The Economist - 0 views

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    There is tantalising evidence that a common parasite may affect human behaviour
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Ellouise Leadbeater: Entomology: It's gotta bee me | The Economist - 0 views

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    "SOCIAL insects are often dismissed as slaves to the collective mind of the hive. But individual members of colonies do have brains and are technically capable of making their own decisions. Indeed, several studies have shown that insects such as ants and bees sometimes ignore shared information in favour of what they individually know. What drives them to act independently has been something of a mystery. New research shows that when a tasty source of food is available the hive mentality is blatantly ignored"
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