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Jesse Bering is an experimental psychologist and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the Queen's University, Belfast. See full bio

January 5, 2009, Evolutionary Psychology

Comments on ""Bering in Mind" Has Gone Live"

"Bering in Mind" Has Gone Live

By Jesse Bering, Ph.D. on January 5, 2009 in Quirky Little Things

This is just a quick note to say that I will be posting somewhat less frequently on PT Blogs. I know, I know, you're crying your eyes out. But before you do anything rash, rest assured I'm not going far away. The reason for the slow-down is that I've just signed a contract with Scientific American to author a regular column titled "Bering in Mind" and will need to juggle my extra writing time sensibly. Read More

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Submitted by YG on January 5, 2009 - 3:31pm.

Those are tears, not a goatee ;)

Congrats, Jesse!!!

Love and peace,
YG

Congrats on the gig; see you

Submitted by Brad on January 6, 2009 - 9:20am.

Congrats on the gig; see you over at SciAm :)

Shame

Submitted by bob on January 6, 2009 - 11:45am.

No one buys or reads that magazine. It's the world's biggest snore...with 80's pictures and editors who are so lazy they can only find writers on PT's blogs. How else do you think they found you? Sitting at a bus stop in Belfast? Not likely.

However brilliant your observations on the human psyche, please don't suffer from the illusion that anyone will actually buy the rag to read you. When a tree falls in the middle of the forrest, does it make a sound? When Jesse get's published in SA American Brain, did he actually say anything? Spose we'll never know.

I beg to differ..

Submitted by YG on January 6, 2009 - 1:16pm.

Jesse,

I bought an SAM magazine last year only BECAUSE of the article you wrote on the afterlife debate, and this was before I knew of you through this blog, even though I was already reading PT on-line.

Therefore, in my experience, I think the quality of your work is immune to branding.

Cheers ;)
YG

Correction

Submitted by bob on January 6, 2009 - 4:18pm.

OK. I concede. You'll get ONE reader. YG...you're a rock. -- Bob PS: Why don't you just email each other and save the bother

Thanks YG and Brad. Bob,

Submitted by Jesse Bering, Ph.D. on January 6, 2009 - 5:05pm.

Thanks YG and Brad. Bob, stop being a jackass.

Scientific Mind Rulezzz

Submitted by Steven on January 6, 2009 - 7:48pm.

Bob, Scientific Mind is the best psych & neuroscience magazine hands down. Please tell me what you read - dumb air-headed magazines like Psychology Today?? Ive been reading SM for a couple of years, and its always been fascinating. Yeah it has 80's pics but so do the latest Psychology textbooks. Who cares about the pics anyway, you are not reading a Playboy!
Jesse, congrats on being part of the mag. I cant wait to read your articles on there.

I recently got into the internet psychology thing

Submitted by Psychology 76 on January 13, 2009 - 10:20am.

because I think its a great way to find interesting and up to date info about psych and neuroscience. I found psychology today first but after looking around in SCIAM I think I'm going to spend more time there. I agree with the previous poster a great deal. I'll come back for psychology today occasionally to check on the psych careers blog though!