Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week.
- Dr. Shock says that Internet and Video Games Improve Reading Skills and Visual Spatial Skills in Children. If the kids are initially low in those skills, at least.
- At the Global Change blog: Do women and men differ in their acceptance of climate warming?
- Religion messes with your mind, but not in the way you might think. BPS Research Digest explains how religion causes a chronic biasing of visual attention.
- Finally, at Addiction Inbox: Sex, drugs, and...sex. Dirk Hanson considers sexual performance and pharmaceuticals.
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