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In the AS course we look a the Sperry study of hemisphere disconnection and the findings surrounding lateralisation of function. It can be quite a difficult and dry study (although it’s one of my favorites and I have a fab PowerPoint that I will put in the resources share) and I haven’t seen videos [...]

Along with the ever excellent resource which is PsychBLOG the BPS has collated some articles of interest … and we’re in there too with a link to my interview with Mark Griffiths.
Following the approval of the new 2008 specifications the always excellent BPS Research Digest Blog written by Christian Jarrett has published an excellent post [...]

Looking at the OCR site this morning I was pleased to see that the new 2008 specification for Psychology has finally been approved. The biggest shock of it all is that Zimbardo has been dropped and replaced by Reicher & Haslam (2006) Rethinking the psychology of tyranny [full text available here].
Other changes to the [...]

After the popularity of the last two autism research carnivals (one & two) it’s time for another one. I would love to write and comment on all of these studies but if I did this would be an autism blog as there is so much research going on in the field of autism at [...]

This post discusses the sensitive subject of a rape victim and the diffusion of responsibility that was seen around the time of the offence.
In the first year of the course we look at the study conducted by Piliavin in response to diffusion of responsibility (also called the bystander effect) why it occurs and the [...]

I know it’s a shocking title! Oh, there I go again (Sorry). Now we’re all into the new year and starting to get back into those core studies with all you new students I’ve been searching the web for videos that will be of use. At the moment on YouTube there is the [...]

Last months ‘The Psychologist‘ had an excellent book review of Zimbardo’s recent work ‘The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil‘ written by Phil Banyard. The review highlights the very real holes and pitfalls in Zimbardo’s ‘it’s not my fault I was told to’ argument.
The driving force for Philip Zimbardo to write The [...]

Back into normal postings now with a study published by PLoS regarding the possible effects of brain damage on behaviour, specifically violent behaviour. In the Raine (1997) study that we cover as part of the physiological psychology module in the AS it is put forward that slight differences in levels of processing in specific [...]

I’ve written a lot about the influence of the media over young people’s behaviour, especially aggressive behaviour. Be it tv, video games, or the internet, what effect is this having on the next generation? A recent panorama program “Children’s Fight Club” looked at the effect of the growing trend of children who are [...]

One study in the AS which always raises debate is that of Hraba & Grant who were replicating the research of Clark and Clark from the late 1930’s. The study is investigating racial preference, awareness and self-identification in both white and black children. Stumbling around the internet I found a very powerful video [...]