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Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week!
At BPS Research Digest, Christian Jarrett asks what makes for an effective apology?
Krystal D'Costa of the Urban Ethnographer blog describes an afternoon at a fish market in New York City, and ponders the relationship of smell and memory.
The Neuroskeptic asks "Are you addicted to Starcraft? Do you want to get off Battle.net and on a psychoactive drug?" Is there really a drug that can curb your addiction to video games?
Dirk Hanson of Addiction Inbox discusses the chase for the genes implicated in cocaine addiction.