Best Psychology & Neuroscience Books of 2014 (according to me)

Here are some of the best books I have been exposed to this year. Obviously, I cannot read everything, so this is a partial list at best. They are listed in alphabetical order. Descriptive text is from the publisher’s blurb on Amazon. A few of these books warrant the RECOMMENDED READ classification. Adult Attachment Patterns … Read more

The Science of Emotions: Jaak Panksepp at TEDxRainier

Awesome – Jaak Panksepp is one of the founders of affective neuroscience, and author of Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (2004) and The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (2012). The Science of Emotions: Jaak Panksepp at TEDxRainier Published on Jan 13, 2014 Given an inherent subjective nature, emotions … Read more

Situated Affective and Social Neuroscience (Topic Overview)

  This editorial from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is part of (and introduction to) a special topic on Interactions between emotions and social context: Basic, clinical and non-human evidence. The whole article is presented below, along with the 22 articles in the topic – all of which have their DOIs so that they can be … Read more