This is a good website where you can find information about new social science research:
http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/social.php For instance, articles from yesterday show new research on the relationship between sleep deprivation and Alzheimer's disease, that memory is improved if we hold items in our hand (I suppose it is because we then are using more senses or because memory can be coded in relation to proprioception of our body), that caffeine consumption decreases risk for depression in women, that our clothes give clues of our race because of stereotyping (white men dressed as cleaners were taken for black and black people dressed as businessmen were taken for white.
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Book
9/26/2011 10:13:32 pm
Looks like a good website! Interestingly though, the category is named social/behavioral science. Just as in IB Psychology, psychology is defined as the scientific study of human behavior. But I just realized that this is a behaviorist approach to psychology? Would including "mental processes" in the definition be a more accurate definition for the IB?
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Mr Hansson
9/27/2011 03:28:23 pm
Hi Book, yes, I think the most appropriate definition should be the scientific study of mental processes and behavior, unless it is possible to study "mental behavior".
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