The Boston Herald has an interesting article on perfectionism - a pathological pursuit of usually unobtainable high standards that is strongly linked to anxiety, depression and eating disorders. Perfectionism is variously described as a personality trait or a type of dysfunctional assumption where p...

Here's a chance to decide which of the UK's best neighbourhood green projects deserves £20,000 of P&G's cash, from a parish cutting its carbon footprint to a secondary school encouraging sustainable transport. For this year's Future Friendly awards, hundreds of entries have been whittled down to a ...

Many thanks for sending or posting all your suggestions for psychology and neuroscience Twitter feeds to follow. After watching the streams for a few days, here are my suggestions for some of the best: @mocost Probably the single best mind and brain Twitter feed I've yet found. By the author of the ...

Ethical weddings on the increase as conscientious couples seek to save money and reduce their carbon footprint Economic woes may be causing the appetite for expensive white weddings to crash, but at least one form of wedding is blossoming: the green variety. In tune with a thriftier climate, today s...

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: The Economist discusses whether the famous Dunbar number, the maximum limit of human relationships, holds on Facebook. A person who experienced the identity loss memory disorder dissociative fugue is interviewed in The New York Times. BBC News r...

I'm interesting in creating a list of people on Twitter that Mind Hacks readers might be interested in: psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, AI hackers, anthropologists, sociologists, science writers, philosophers - you know the sort. However, it seems quite hard to track down people by th...

The following is from a recent New York Times article on how snack food company Frito-Lay have based their latest women-focused campaign on 'neuromarketing'. Parts of the article nearly made with weep with despair. [Advertising agency] Juniper Park used neuromarketing in a slightly different way. Ms...

Today's issue of Science has a letter from neuroscientist Martha Farah and theologian Nancey Murphy warning against 'non-materialist neuroscience' becoming the new front-line in the religion wars. Most religions endorse the idea of a soul (or spirit) that is distinct from the physical body. Yet as n...

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: I've just discovered the excellent Psychology of Beauty blog. 3QuarksDaily has an interview with cognitive science philosopher Shaun Gallagher on psychotic delusions and multiple realities. Missed this a few weeks ago: an interesting article fro...

You know that awkward feeling you get when you stop laughing because you realise the person you're talking to isn't actually joking? I've just had it after reading the news reports that tell us 'Facebook raises cancer risk', ruining what I thought was a very funny parody. They're based on an appalli...