In my morning mail was an interesting letter from my publisher, Cengage, in which they described a new innovation–CengageBrain.com. Using this site, students will be able to purchase or rent over 1300 of the titles published by Cengage, with even more to be added later. The letter went on to say that my Read more…
All of us are “doing more with less,” especially this year, which means that faculty have precious little time to jazz up lectures. One of the resources that really engages students is the use of relevant videoclips from youtube or other online sources. Most of us are no longer showing Read more…
A new article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine points to some correlations between depression in women and high BMI and Internet use in men and the likelihood that they played videogames. I’m fairly certain that the original article is careful about the distinction between correlation and causality, but Read more…
For those of us on quarter system, school seems pretty far away, even as August 1 approaches. For those of you on semesters, however, school is just around the corner. I was pleased to see that my Instructors’ Resources for Discovering Biological Psychology 2e were up and running on the Read more…
Neuroscientists have known for some time that we do not have a “happy” center or an “anger” center of the brain, but rather these emotional states have unique patterns of activity. Now it appears that researchers can identify a person’s mental state rather accurately by comparing his/her patterns of activity Read more…