A Review of "Shelly’s Heart" by Charles McCarry

Charles Mc Carry is a former journalist and best-selling author of novels of intrigue. Apropos to this summer of political conventions, “Shelly’s Heart ” is the story of political maneuvering at the…

A Review of “Believing in Magic” by Stuart Vyse

Reviewed by Mirari Elcoro, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, Armstrong State University (Savannah, GA) Are you superstitious? Whether the answer is yes or no, Stuart Vyse, Professor of…

A Review of "The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self Control" by Walter Mischel

Reviewed by Ronnie Dietrich, Senior Fellow, The Wing Institute, Oakland, California  Very few psychological experiments become well known within the discipline.  Even fewer become well…

A Review of "Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness" by Alva Noe

Philosopher Alva Noë tackles the age-old question of "what is consciousness?" in this book. Many astute observers of the psychological scene from William James to B. F. Skinner have weighed in on the…