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Welcome to the first edition of Psychology Articles Carnival!
A blog carnival is simply a round up of the best posts on a particular topic made over the previous month. So every month, psychology bloggers will have the chance to submit their best articles to the carnival (with this submission form), and their work will be featured here on the 15th of the month. This gets their best content out to a wider audience (ie, you).
There are three categories of articles:
- Practical – Articles with advice or an action step of some kind
- Academic – More scholarly articles
- Informative – Anything that doesn’t fit the above two categories, general interest pieces, etc.
Practical
No submissions came in for practical articles! No problem, I’ll recommend one of my own – How to increase survey response rates using Post-it notes, which you’ll want to read if you’re doing any form of research, or a dissertation that involves posting out surveys or questionnaires.
Academic
There were some great academically-angled articles in the mix. Have a look at these:
Philip Smith presents Employment discourses posted at Social Psychology Eye.
Blair of Babel’s Dawn presents a four-part discussion. I know I limited submissions to one per person, but this is basically one discussion spread over four posts, plus it’s really interesting, so I made an exception. Here’s what Blair had to say:
“…a couple of weeks ago my blog got into a discussion with a commenter who was an old time Skinnerian behaviorist who did not accept Chomsky’s refutation of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior. It led to 4 posts over 4 days, the final one being a full reply by the behaviorist in defense of Skinner”:
Part 1: Presents Chomsky’s rejection of Skinner
Part 2: Discusses non-Chomskyan solutions to the problems Chomsky raised
Part 3: Discusses another behaviorist alternative using neural nets
Part 4: A guest column defending Skinner
Great stuff there, if only because it made me realise that I’d never actually read any of Skinner’s stuff directly, only formed opinions of it based on other peoples’ descriptions of his work.
Sandra of Channel N presents Positive Psychiatry, describing it as “a long lecture video about the historic divide between psychology and psychiatry, and applying lessons from the positive psychology movement to clinical psychiatry.” It’s an hour long but an interesting perspective.
Informative
Here are two things you probably didn’t know about left-to-right reading and time pressure, and a live blog of a talk on being and doing:
Jeremy Dean of PsyBlog presents Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Powerful and Shocking, saying: “Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it’s easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience.”
Christian of presents The surprising benefits of time pressure at work posted at The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest Blog.
isabella mori presents norm amundson talks about being and doing posted at change therapy, saying “this is a live blog of a presentation given by dr. norm amundson, one of canada’s leading academics and practitioners in the field of career counselling.”
That’s it for this month! Many thanks to all who submitted articles, if you submitted one and it didn’t appear here today, it’s because it wasn’t based on academic psychology, or didn’t include an academic reference as per the submission guidelines.
If you were featured today, please consider linking back to the carnival – the more readers we get, the better it is for everyone. You don’t have to do this, but it’s greatly appreciated if you do. Don’t forget to submit one for next month!
Submit an article
If you want to get your website out to a larger audience, submit an article for inclusion in September’s edition! Use the submission form at BlogCarnival.com (hit the link and scroll down), or contact me using the form on this site – include the link to the article you want to include, plus a couple of sentences describing it if you wish (this is your chance to persuade people to click your link).
Thanks!
