Editor's Selections: Music at Work, Elevated Charity, and Spinning Brains

By Jason G. Goldman on October 4, 2011

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

Those of you do not know me personally might not know I'm kind of an introvert. Those of you who do not work at the other desk in my office might not know I like working to music. But a new post at BPS Occupational Digest says that I shouldn't like working to music if I'm an introvert. Or, at least, if I'm an introverted female school-age child in the UK. Which I'm not. So I'll go back to listening to music while I work.

At the Why We Reason blog, find out the latest in embodied cognition research: why you give more to charity when you're elevated.

Finally, why do brain scanners make your head spin? Neuroskeptic explains.

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

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

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.