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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections: Dogs, Money, Sensation & Perception, NeuroNewtons, and DSM-5

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Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:

Can Dogs Use Human Emotional Expressions to Identify Which Box Contains Food? New research from the Tomasello lab, ably covered at the Companion Animal Psychology blog.

Can having more money make you a worse parent? At the Science of Relationships blog, Samantha Joel explains this counterintuitive finding: Mo' Money, Mo' Problems.


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Care to test your knowledge of sensation and perception? Cedar Reiner shared the final exam from his S&P course.

Scicurious asks, Does neuroscience need a Newton? Doctor Zen responds by nominating people who already qualify as the "Newtons" of neuroscience.

The DSM-5 has been finalized. Smart, sharp analysis from Vaughan Bell at Mind Hacks.

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.

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