From holiday gift ideas to dealing with our bosses’ bad moods, today’s Psychology Around the Net is sure to keep you on the edge of your seats!

The Best Psychology Books of 2014: The Guardian writer Lisa Appignanesi provides a list of six of the best psychology books over the past year. (HINT: You might even get one or two holiday gift ideas from this one!)

The Best Christmas Gift Ever: Finding Blessings in Challenges: Speaking of holiday gifts, oftentimes some of our greatest blessings come from our greatest challenges. When have you faced a challenge that turned around and offered you a gift?

Are You Mindful? The Meditation Practice That’s Connecting the World: Can the ancient practice of mindfulness cause physical changes in our brains?

Americans Are Trading Sleep for Work, and It’s Literally Killing Us: Sleep deprivation is associated with serious physical health risks like diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity. You might want to weigh in on some of the mental health issues to which it contributes or causes, too.

Brain Stimulation May Help Anxiety: Biological Psychiatry recently published a paper discussing University of Western Australia researchers’ findings on brain stimulation and its effects on anxiety and depression.

Shame On Us: Toward Defining Basic Emotions: “Emotion terms, especially in English, are wildly ambiguous,” UC Santa Barbara’s Thomas Scheff states in a new paper that examines basic human emotions such as pride, shame, fear, anxiety, anger, and grief.

How to Stay Immune to Your Boss’s Bad Moods: Bad moods. We all have them. Still, while it’s tricky enough to deal with our own foul moods, how are we supposed to deal with others’?

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