Following the success of our file sharing site for psychology teachers (PsychExchange.co.uk if you didn’t already know) we now release to the masses a video clip sharing site. PsychClips is a great new web site for psychology teachers to share video and audio clips that are hosted on youtube-type sites.
There are already almost 100 [...]
With the popularity of YouTube many people are turning to it to make their own little videos for revision and other classroom activities. So, we’re (Mark and I) putting a competition together for all our readers. We want you to get those cameras out and start to make your own video. It [...]
The question as to whether humans are the only ones on this planet who have the ability to comprehend and use language has been of great argument since the beginning of psychology. At the moment we follow the progression of Washoe (RIP) and her ‘learning’ of American Sign Language and with the arrival of [...]
Back in January I talked about a fascinating video from a TED conference where Vilayanur Ramachandran discussed a new ‘treatment’ for phantom limb pain that he had come up with: the mirror box. I’m fascinated by phantom limb pain as I feel that it provides massive support for the thesis that pain perception is [...]
It was exactly a year ago today that I made that first tentative post wondering if the only people to read this blog would be Mark, my students, and, well … me. That hasn’t been the case and it’s been a fab year - although I didn’t realise exactly how much time and work [...]
Within Crime-Victim interaction we look at the ‘fear of crime’ and many students learn about the British Crime Survey as part of this. More-and-more so students are using out-dated versions of the BCS (like pre-2000 which seems to be in many text books) which are methodologically flawed in their delivery. Following [...]
[Update 2nd April] Health Warning: If reading this on a day other than April 1st be warned. There was a vicious ulterior motive for this post. Happy April Fools and thanks for all your comments and links.
As of September 2008 UK Universities will no longer be accepting Psychology A levels as an acceptable A [...]
Even though Zimbardo is not going to be part of the specs next year he will be an important part of the background of the R&H study so he still wont be far from our thoughts! Even thought his study can (and does) come under massive criticism for ethics and methodological problems (cough… Zimbardo [...]
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