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Well, they say that sex sells, so I thought that it was about time that I jumped on that band-wagon. We all know the dangers of unprotected sex, or at least we should do, so how can we get the message across to those who still aren’t paying attention? In the Health module [...]

In the A2 Crime module we study Morality and Crime and study if morality is innate or something that is learned from those around us. Some psychologists (Kohlberg) have also developed theories of moral development which predict that we will progress through, and become more moral as we grow older in a linear fashion [...]

The practice of jury selection, choosing those people who are going to be the ‘representative’ group of peers that are there to judge the defendant. Is this process becoming more of a dark art or is it a science based on the lawyers previous experience?
“Despite all the reforms of the latter half of the [...]

An interesting article over at psychcentral has identified a study looking into the sexual behaviour of adolescents and what variables effect is.
“… A study conducted in August 2006 examined longitudinal data from a survey of 5,401 Scottish teenagers. The researchers led by Daniel Wight of the Medical Research Council, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit [...]

Recently there has been a flurry of articles on addiction, the reasons why we become addicted and why do we continue to abuse these substances; be it alcohol, gambling or even love (there was a very interesting article about being addicted to love by Prof Mark Griffiths in a recent Psychology Review - and on [...]

When teaching psychology and health I have found that a top evaluation issue that students can really get their teeth into and discuss well in part B essays is the issue of correlation and causality (or more accurately lack of causality).
Because of the practical and ethical problems of studying health and illness this tricky little [...]

Pain and suffering aren’t exactly everybody’s cup of tea, but we do study pain as part of the A2 health course. Some of the more interesting topics in pain are surrounding peoples perceptions of pain such as how some people perform extraordinary acts (such as lying on a bed of nails or sitting through one [...]

In the Crime module in psychology of the courtroom we look at what factors influence juries decisions and one of the studies that I use is the Castello et al. study which looks at how the attractiveness of a defendant in relation to that of the plaintiff may be a variable in a guilty verdict [...]

From a recent Guardian article (24/03): “Every child to be screened for risk of turning criminal under Blair criminal justice plan“. Is this the nanny state gone mad - should we soon be expecting double-speak and the ministry of truth?
“A new-style “11-plus” to assess the risk every child in Britain runs of turning to [...]

We’ve all been waiting with baited breath for the last few months to see the new draft specification for teaching from September 2008 and on the 30th (a whole day before the deadline and well before AQA ;) ) they were released to the masses. So, what does this mean for us? Here [...]