Psycomedia Demi-Episode 95 and a half – Kentucky Frontal Cortex

Psycomedia Demi-Episode 95 and a half – Kentucky Frontal Cortex

References:

• St-Onge, M. P., McReynolds, A., Trivedi, Z. B., Roberts, A. L., Sy, M., & Hirsch, J. (2012). Sleep restriction leads to increased activation of brain regions sensitive to food stimuli. The American journal of clinical nutrition, 95(4), 818-824.
• Xie, L., Kang, H., Xu, Q., Chen, M. J., Liao, Y., Thiyagarajan, M., … & Nedergaard, M. (2013). Sleep drives metabolite clearance from the adult brain. science, 342(6156), 373-377.

Psynet is back. To celebrate, check out the actual company unironically called Skynet. http://www.skynet.com.my/

She stole her voice from http://www.cepstral.com/en/demos

Contagious cancer except not: http://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v9/n4/abs/nrc2621.html

Brooklyn and Cash: http://www.youtube.com/user/BrooklynandCashMusic/videos

Spurious Correlations: http://www.tylervigen.com/

Lost Treasures of the Black Heart: http://www.losttreasurespodcast.com/

 

 

 

Psycomedia Demi-Episode 92 und ein kleinepig – The Old Spice Mines of Vincent Cassel

Psycomedia Demi-Episode 92 und ein kleinepig – The Old Spice Mines of Vincent Cassel

References:

• Manaf, M. M. A., Ghani, E. K., & Jais, I. R. M. (2013). Factors influencing the Conception of Rumours in Workplace. Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2(6), 50-63.
• Rosnow, R. L. (1980). Psychology of rumor reconsidered.

If someone is arguing falsely, hit them with a song: http://bit.ly/1g7qIfK

Where is Ben? http://www.mapcrunch.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fatchicken007.headsupcharades2 Get this game, I might make some categories for it and post it on the Facebook page.

Get a more reliably unreliable source of information: http://www.180thinking.com/rumour/

The genuine first two Ben rumours and Tim rumours:

Psycomedia Demi-Episode 88.5 – Never Yawn at a Tortoise

Psycomedia Episode 88.5 – Never Yawn at a Tortoise

References:

• Selterman, D. F., Apetroaia, A. I., Riela, S., & Aron, A. (2013). Dreaming of You Behavior and Emotion in Dreams of Significant Others Predict Subsequent Relational Behavior. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
• Millen, A., & Anderson, J. R. (2011). Neither infants nor toddlers catch yawns from their mothers. Biology letters, 7(3), 440-442.
• Gallup, A. C., & Eldakar, O. T. (2011). Contagious yawning and seasonal climate variation. Frontiers in evolutionary neuroscience, 3.
• Joly-Mascheroni, R. M., Senju, A., & Shepherd, A. J. (2008). Dogs catch human yawns. Biology Letters, 4(5), 446-448.
• Wilkinson, A., Sebanz, N., Mandl, I., & Huber, L. (2011). No evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise Geochelone carbonaria. Curr Zool, 57(4), 477-484.
• Senju, A., Maeda, M., Kikuchi, Y., Hasegawa, T., Tojo, Y., & Osanai, H. (2007). Absence of contagious yawning in children with autism spectrum disorder.Biology Letters, 3(6), 706-708.

Sleepy Bears:

You’re welcome.

Psycomedia Demi-Episode 85 and a soupçon – Cogency

Psycomedia Demi-Episode 85 and a soupçon – Cogency

References:

• Bell V, Maiden C, Munoz-Solomando A, Reddy V. (2006) ‘Mind control’ experiences on the internet: implications for the psychiatric diagnosis of delusions. Psychopathology, 39(2), 87-91.

• Gendron, M., Lindquist, K. A., Barsalou, L., & Barrett, L. F. (2012). Emotion words shape emotion percepts. Emotion, 12(2), 314.

• Rethans, A. J., Swasy, J. L., & Marks, L. J. (1986). Effects of television commercial repetition, receiver knowledge, and commercial length: A test of the two-factor model. Journal of Marketing Research, 50-61.

Czikszentmihayi – as seen on TV:

Psycomedia Demi-Episode 79.5 – Don’t Worry, This Will Not Be An Attempt To Brainwash You

Psycomedia Demi-Episode 79.5 – Don’t Worry, This Will Not Be An Attempt To Brainwash You

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00ERQXCB2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00ERQXCB2&linkCode=as2&tag=psycomedia-21

Buy Tim’s book!

References:

• Heap, M. (2008). The validity of some early claims of neuro-linguistic programming. Skeptical Intelligencer, 11, 6-13.
• Witkowski, T. (2010). Thirty-Five Years of Research on Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP Research Data Base. State of the Art or Pseudoscientific Decoration?.

The website of Tim’s new nemesis Alexandra Swann: http://www.alexandraswann.co.uk/

The terrifying/brilliant Vulcan Bomber at Dawlish (tons more photos here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/dawlishairshowofficial/