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Helen Rickard

@helpmericky

Teaching psychology. Because someone has to.

 Birmingham, England
Joined February 2016
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7 Key Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology New essay out in @AreoMagazine today! If you know somebody who isn’t deeply familiar with evolutionary approaches to psych, I hope you’ll find this useful. Thanks for your time!✌️ areomagazine.com/2019/08/20/…
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This execrable Guardian article gives one of the dumbest and most self-contradictory blank-slate takes I've seen: amp.theguardian.com/educatio…

Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child

Even Einstein was unexceptional in his youth. Now a new book questions our fixation with IQ and says adults can help almost any child become gifted

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Parents/Students - join us on 26 Jun for guest lecture on ‘Mindreading, a Psychologist’s Perspective’ - Info on booking from [email protected]
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As the madeleine was to Proust... teapawt.org/NHMdinolab/status/7090… – at Poplar, London
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Just found these at home: a couple of my very formative childhood inspirations
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Oliver James is "a straw-man made flesh... to open his book is to step into a parallel universe" - @StuartJRitchie health.spectator.co.uk/on-ge…
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Birds have no cerebral cortex, but some of them show cognitive skills comparable to primates. How do they do it? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2694…
Cognition without Cortex - PubMed

Cognition without Cortex - PubMed

Assumptions on the neural basis of cognition usually focus on cortical mechanisms. Birds have no cortex, but recent studies in parrots and corvids show that their cognitive skills are on par with...

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Rolf Degen
@DegenRolf4 Mar 2016
No-brainer: Educational neuroscience has nothing useful to offer to learning and instruction psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.do… – at Berlin, Germany
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Attractive people are less cooperative, generous, trusting and trustworthy in economic games academia.edu/22483129/Explai… – at Berlin, Germany
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Behaviour genetic research is complex, nuanced and compelling - I try to explain: theguardian.com/science/sift…
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