WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF POSTS 15 Jul 2012

• Karen Franklin reports on a soon to be published study in Law and Human Behaviour, the first of its kind in the US, which examined levels of agreement among independent forensic evaluators in routine legal practice. The study found a surprisingly low level of agreement between evaluators who looked at 483 evaluation reports involving 165 criminal defendants. Read the full post: Sanity opinions show "poor" reliability, study finds

• A short interview with Professor Vikram, one of the guest editors for the new PLOS Medicine Global Mental Health Series, which "seeks to expand the evidence base of global mental health by publishing case studies of global mental health in practice." Q & A with Vikram Patel. You can read the editorial here: Putting Evidence into Practice: The PLoS Medicine Series on Global Mental Health Practice.

• Why I am Always Unlucky But You Are Always Careless - Vaughan Bell on the fundamental attribution error.

• An audio interview with Oliver Burkeman and Jules Evans on the upside of pessimism.

  For Burkeman, a contented life must embrace uncertainty and get friendly with failure. But could the active pursuit of happiness be part of the problem? Evans takes a more can-do approach, looking back to the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophers and tracking it through to the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy of today, which helped him to escape depression in his early 20s. Hear the interview.

• A moving and entertaining TED Talk by Psychology and Law Professor Elyn Saks on what it is like to live with schizophrenia. Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness from the inside

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