Editor's Selections: Scary Things and Classic Experiments

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

This was an awesome week for psychology and neuroscience blogging! I had a hard time picking just three or four, so here are six:

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In the wake of World War II, stunned by the German peoples adoption of Hitler's horrific vision of Aryan purity, psychologists set out to discover the mechanisms of social control. One of the most famous studies to emerge during this period was conducted by Gestalt Therapist Solomon Asch.
February 20th 1762 - Death of Tobias Mayer, German astronomer
Something I wanted to blog this weekend during the downtime: Chris Myers Asch's pitch for a public service academy to turn out well-prepared government employees.
Uwe Reinhardt, an economist at Princeton, has a thoughtful explanation of why macroeconomists were so blindsided by the economic downtown of 2008:

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Thanks for the link! One thing though, my post is actually not about Korsakoff's but about patients who developed confabulation after a brain bleed. The symptoms are much like Korsakoff's but the damage is different.