A new issue of PID is out, including articles on borderline and self-regulation, black anti-white attitudes and personality, and stress reactions and personality.

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A new issue of Dreaming is out, covering topics such as dreaming and physical health, insomnia and dream content, and personality types.

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Medscape is running a special topic edition on the biology of sleep. The articles include papers on the management of insomnia; the relationship between passive sleeping and sleep disturbance during pregnancy; and the effects of hypothalamic stimulation on cluster headache and sleep.

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Science is running a special edition on social cognition this week. It contains papers on the evolution of social cognition

Living in Societies – Caroline Ash, Gilbert Chin, Elizabeth Pennisi, and Andrew Sugden

All Together Now–Pull! – Greg Miller

Evolution in the Social Brain – R. I. M. Dunbar and Susanne Shultz

Social Components of Fitness in Primate Groups – Joan B. Silk

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Nature Neuroscience is running a  on emotions and disorders of emotion.

It includes papers on brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its role in depression and anxiety, the social learning of fear, and how the circuitry of mood and anxiety disorders can be altered.

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A new issue of Cognition & Emotion is out, including articles on affective processing, affection as a form of cognition, and the interdependence of emotion and cognition.

Cognition & Emotion, Volume 21 Issue 6 2007

How distinctive is affective processing? On the implications of using cognitive paradigms to study affect and emotion
Authors: Andreas B. Eder; Bernhard Hommel; Jan De Houwer

Differentiation in cognitive and emotional meanings: An evolutionary analysis
Authors: Philip J. Barnard; David J. Duke; Richard W. Byrne; Iain Davidson

Affect is a form of cognition: A neurobiological analysis
Authors: Seth Duncan; Lisa Feldman Barrett

On the interdependence of cognition and emotion
Authors: Justin Storbeck; Gerald L. Clore

Can cognitive methods be used to study the unique aspect of emotion: An appraisal theorist’s answer
Author: Agnes Moors

Affect and action: Towards an event-coding account
Authors: Tristan Lavender; Bernhard Hommel

Common valence coding in action and evaluation: Affective blindness towards response-compatible stimuli
Authors: Andreas B. Eder; Karl Christoph Klauer

Mere exposure in reverse: Mood and motion modulate memory bias
Authors: Mark Rotteveel; R. Hans Phaf

Affective distinctiveness: Illusory or real?
Authors: John T. Cacioppo; Gary G. Berntson

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A new issue of Psychological Science is now out, including papers on autistic intelligence, testosterone and conscious detection, self-reference in episodic memory, and the relationship between planning and perception.

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A new issue of Dreaming is out, including articles on emotion, culture, and the self. Here we bring the abstracts

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On April 2nd Wiley-Blackwell celebrated the premiere issue of Mind, Brain, and Education with a reception at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts.During the celebration Kurt Fischer (Harvard University), Howard Gardner (Harvard University), Maryanne Wolf (Tufts University), and Stanislas Dehaene (Collège de France) discussed their recent findings regarding how brain science informs educational practice.

Now, Wiley-Blackwell offer podcasts of all talks from this site.

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A new issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is out with headlines such as

• Mathematizing phenomenology
• The phenomenology of agency and intention in the face of paralysis and insentience
• Finding common ground between evolutionary biology and continental philosophy
• The problems of consciousness and content in theories of perception

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ScienceDirect is running a neat service. They provide regular updates on what articles are being most read (i.e., downloaded) from each journal. In this way, you can always have the finger on the pulse of your peers — and competitors — on what’s hot in your research field.

Here we provide the top 25 articles from a few selected journals.

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An unedited penultimate draft of a BBS target article by John Searle is now available. It has been accepted for publication (Copyright 1980: Cambridge University Press U.K./U.S. — publication date provisional) and is currently being circulated for Open Peer Commentary. This preprint is for inspection only, to help prospective commentators decide whether or not they wish to prepare a formal commentary. Please do not prepare a commentary unless you have received the hard copy, invitation, instructions and deadline information.

For information on becoming a commentator on this or other BBS target articles, write to: bbs@soton.ac.uk

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Ned Block is known for his suggestions that there are two aspects of consciousness and their neural underpinnings that need to be disentangled. In BBS, there is now an unedited and uncorrected final draft of a manuscript that, while being accepted for publication, it needs commentators, as is standard procedure in BBS. The paper is called “Consciousness, Accessibility, and the Mesh between Psychology and Neuroscience“.

If you are interested in commenting on this interesting paper, go to the BBS commentator page for this manuscript. Mind, do not start to write the comment before receiving a formal invitation.

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A new issue of Emotion is out, containing articles on topics including:

• emotion inference
• emotional competence in childhood
• chimp facial expressions

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A new issue of Emotion is out, including articles on:

• emotion inference
• appraisals
• emotional competence in children
• multimodal expression of emotion

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The journal Biological Psychiatry has a special issue on the autism spectrum, its diagnosis and treatment.

It is a comprehensive yet diverse collection of multidisciplinary treatment of the issue, containing articles onautism and phenotypic homogeneity; cortical layering and thickness; cortical dysfunction; executive function and gaze fixation.

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A new issue of Cognition & Emotion is out.

Articles include the following topics:

• emotional awareness
• response inhibition
• conditioning

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A new issue of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences is out.

Articles include topics such as

• introspective reports
• perception and action
• evolutionary autonomous agents

We here bring the TOCs and links

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The latest issue of Motivation and Emotion is a special issue on antonomy, volitional motivation and wellness.

The TOC includes:

• goal motives and well-being
• autonomy and nondefensiveness
• Motivational Predictors of Change in Oral Health.

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Did you know that there is a journal that seeks to combine phenomenology and psychology? Phenomenology is, among other things, described as “an approach to philosophy that takes intuitive experience of phenomena (what presents itself to us in phenomenological reflexion) as its starting point and tries to extract from it the essential features of experiences and the essence of what we experience.”

Two new issues of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology are now out, and include articles on altruism, the experiences of not belonging and of ambivalence, and on being a couple.
Here, we bring the TOC of both issues.

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