Editor's Selections: Bubble Bursting, Deja Vu, and a Dopamine Explainer

By Jason G. Goldman on February 28, 2012

Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week.

"[The] ability for other people's emotional expressions to affect our own risk taking - a form of 'social referencing' - is surprisingly under researched in psychology." This, according to BPS Research Digest blogger Christian Jarrett: Bursting Balloons and Anxious Faces.

Can neuroscience tell us anything about deja vu? Jordan Gaines of Gaines on Brains explains.

Ever wanted to learn more about dopamine? New blogger Miss Behavior at The Scorpion and the Frog has a great explainer.

That's it for this week... Check back next week for more great psychology and neuroscience blogging!

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Jason G. Goldman

Jason G. Goldman is a science journalist based in Los Angeles. He has written about animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology for Scientific American, Los Angeles magazine, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the BBC, Conservation magazine, and elsewhere. He contributes to Scientific American's "60-Second Science" podcast, and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He enjoys sharing his wildlife knowledge on television and on the radio, and often speaks to the public about wildlife and science communication.