Psychology Miscellany No.211 - Mid-December 2024
Health Things
1. The social and mental health
2. Virtual reality relaxation
3. Burnout and psychological therapists
4. Ketamine use in the UK mostly
5. Two studies using UK Biobank data
6. Empowerment and digital pills
Psychology Miscellany No.210 - December 2024
More Animal Shorts
1. "Lazy Geoff" animals
2. Newspaper articles as data
3. Dominance hierarchies of hens change
4. Female alternative reproductive tactics
5. Groups are both good and bad for prey
6. Wild vs domesticated
7. Polar bear exposure to pathogens
8. Bold crabs
9. Captive ibex and sexual interest
10. Bottlenose dolphins and passive electro-reception
11. Cuttlefish courtship behaviour
12. Bot fly parasitism
Psychology Miscellany No.209 - Mid-November 2024
Mostly Food Topics
1. Food processing and nutrition assimilation
2. Food is medicine approach
3. Raw milk
4. Microbiome
5. Knowledge
6. The gut
7. Plant-based diets and food systems transitions
8. Reducing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages
9. Nut allergy risk and flying
10. Connected interactions in food webs
11. Sugar consumption
Psychology Miscellany No.208 - November 2024
Animal Shorts
1. Leri and Stein (2024)
2. Mutual Mate Choice and A Scorpion
3. No Costs of Learning for Bumble Bees
4. Noise Impacts Anti-Predator Behaviour
5. Graveyard Hypothesis
6. Chimpanzee Personality
7. Anxiety-Like Behaviour in the Zebrafish
8. Calls by Hybrids
9. Neophobia and House Sparrows
10. Conditioned Reinforcement
Psychology Miscellany No.207 - October 2024
Drugs: Licit and Illicit
1. Drug use, HIV and covid-19
2. The internet and drugs
3. Safer supply prescribing
4. Genetics of addiction
5. Polysubstance use
6. Sleep and health and alcohol
7. New drugs in the 21st century
Psychology Miscellany No.206 - September 2024
Ecology and Biology
1. Insect monitoring
2. Nature-positive economics
3. Managing ecological novelty
4. Diversity-dependent dispersal
5. Long term potentiation fifty years later
6. Acoustic communication and group dynamics
7. Light pollution in complex ecosystems
Psychology Miscellany No.205 - August 2024
1. Understanding consciousness with popular and academic literature
2. Criminals versus the insurance industry
Psychology Miscellany No.204 - Mid-July 2024
Human migration
1. Migration studies
2. Mental health of refugees
3. Sports migration
4. Drug use
Psychology Miscellany No.203 - July 2024
Physical health, mental health, and biology
1. Worm-Free Populations
2. Eating Disorders in Three Less Studied Groups
3. Traditional and Faith-Based Healthcare
4. Stage Magic and Games as Treatment
5. Measuring Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anaemia in the Population
6. Addictive Mukbang Watching
7. An Anger Control Strategy
8. Stochastic Biological Processes
9. Anti-Depressants and Late-Life Depression
10. Growing Awareness of Mental Health Problems
11. Artificial Intelligence and Prediction
12. Evolution of Metabolic Rate
13. Cancer Trends
14. Wim Hof Method and Lifestyle Medicine
15. Miscellaneous Mental Health
Psychology Miscellany No.201 - May 2024
"Six more months on" (covid-19: 1st October 2023 - 30th April 2024)
1. Retailing
2. Correctional facilities in the USA
3. Experiences of healthcare workers in the Dominican Republic
Psychology Miscellany No.200 - Mid-April 2024
1. Return to: Mental illness, the pharmaceutical industry and the age of ludicrousness
2. Two examples where giving a gift has a negative impact
Psychology Miscellany No.199 - April 2024
Changing Environments
1. Climate change adaptation
2. Anthropocene synthesis
3. Endocrine responses and environment
Psychology Miscellany No.198 - March 2024
Diverse Sexual Behaviour
1. Diverse heterosexual sexual behaviours
2. Very diverse behaviours
3. Sexual behaviour in a world of HIV and AIDS
4. Sexuality in later life
5. Covid-19 and sexual behaviours
6. Mail-order brides
Psychology Miscellany No.196 - January 2024
Online and Society
1. Relationships
2. Problems
3. Work and business
4. Health issues
5. Crime
6. The self and the individual