Daily Digest: 1 October 2012
We’ve searched the web for interesting articles, news, resources and tools – so you don’t have to. Below are today’s featured Daily Digest posts:
Baboon Personalities Connected to Social Success and Health Benefits
Whether human or baboon, it helps to have friends. For both species, studies have shown that robust social networks lead to better health and longer lives. Read more…
Botox Fights Depression
A common complaint about wrinkle-masking Botox is that recipients have difficulty displaying emotions on their faces. That side effect might be a good thing, however, for people with treatment-resistant depression. Read more…
Smartphone apps become ‘surrogate therapists’
While about a quarter of adults in the United States suffer from some form of mental illness, most of them are not getting adequate treatment, if any. Read more…
Are eating disorders the manifestation of an “Extreme Female Brain”?
According to an influential and controversial theory, autism is the manifestation of an “Extreme Male Brain”. Read more…
Does social psychology have a prejudice problem?
The Weekly Standard has a scorching article that takes ‘liberal psychopundits’ to task for suggesting that science supports their view that conservatives are ‘heartless and stupid’. Read more…
