BPS Research Digest Editor’s Picks
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Beyond Grit: The Science of Creativity, Purpose, and Motivation
A conversation between the psychologists and best-selling authors Adam Grant and Angela Duckworth: “Your interests and your passion develop over time. I want to disabuse people of this mythology of ‘it happens to you and if you’re lucky, you find it, and then that’s all you have to do.’”
Watch A Resting Brain Light Up With Activity
From WIRED: “a comprehensive visualization of neural activity throughout the entire brain at rest, and evidence that the blood rushing around in your brain is actually a good indicator of what your neurons are doing.”
Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future Self
The same part of the brain that allows us to step into the shoes of others also helps us restrain ourselves, writes Ed Yong at The Atlantic.
Your Beautiful Brain …
… Dispatches from the frontiers of neuroscience – a long read about the impressive brain research taking place at Columbia University in New York.
How Break-ups Change Your Personality
Some people cope with splits better than others – and it may reflect some fundamental truths about the way you view yourself. My latest Personlogy column at the BBC.
A Conversation With Dan Ariely About What Shapes our Motivations
At Long Reads, Dan Ariely on building an understanding of how humans behave from the ground up.
Google’s Former Happiness Guru Developed a Three-second Brain Exercise For Finding Joy
By Lila MacLellan at Quartz
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