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Originally Posted by kaliraksha
Ah! How do you like Scientific American Mind? I've been wanting to subscribe, but haven't found a price I like yet. Might just have to bite the bullet.. Psych Today has really changed since I started reading it a few years back.
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I like it more than Psych Today. To compare what I have read, PT is more accessible to the general public I think, but it doesn't really offer anything new to the field of psychology that isn't already common knowledge if you took a few psych courses or majored in it like I have, and the topics kind of seem like a "no duh" scenario at times. It's definitely has more of a self-help approach than scientific american mind. Also I have noticed the decline in the substance of the magazine in favor of eyecatching headlines in recent years, which is rather disappointing since I used to really enjoy this magazine.
Scientific american mind offers the same appeal because it has a lot of interesting topics, you also can't just guess at what the conclusions are if you just read the title, which I like, it's more thorough, and the topics offer more of the newer insights into the mind. It's focused more on the neuroscience of psychology, which is the area that I am most interested in and I like that it addresses a lot of disorders as well as the normal human brain. It's not as thorough as the APA Monitor in Psych, which is good in this case because sometimes APA can get really detailed and lose appeal to people not extremely knowledgable or interested in the topic of whatever article is being published.