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As kindly pointed out by a colleague, The Register has been talking about a new study which has shown why PowerPoint can actually detract from lessons or lectures (link is a PDF).
“Humans just don’t like absorbing information verbally and visually at the same time - one or the other is fine but not both simultaneously.
Researchers [...]

In the Developmental Psychology unit of the AS we look at a longitudinal study of children who have been maternally deprived (Hodges and Tizard). Prior to the Hodges and Tizard study it was thought (mainly as a result of Bowlby’s research) that those children who were maternally deprived as children would become affectionless psychopaths.
John [...]

Reading an article that I found posted on Mind Hacks from the NYT an interesting argument came across: are we responsible for what we might do?
“The attempt to link unconscious bias to actual acts of discrimination may be dubious. But are there other ways to look inside the brain and make predictions about an individual’s [...]

Thanks to Gareth over at PsychSplash he has found a little gem of a site for social psychology and what’s going on at the moment - In-Mind.org. The site seems to be a cross between a ‘proper’ academic journal and e-zine type-thing for people to publish their work on social psychology. I haven’t [...]

Studying the brain has always been problematic as there were few ways of investigating what part of the brain was functioning at a particular time. Over the last few decades many different types of brain scans have been developed (MRI, PET, MEG) which mean that we no longer have to wait for a [...]

It’s getting to that time of the year when the core studies are covered and you want a fun way to revise them - maybe with friends. Well, here’s the solution for you: Psychology Monopoly*. Attached is a .pub (you’ll need Microsoft Publisher to view and print it - I will try to [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about Zimbardo over the last few months, especially as his new book, The Lucifer Effect, has recently been released. I’m in the process of working my way through the book now and will be posting a review as soon as I can. Here though is a quick [...]

UPDATE: If you’re wanting the Spec 2008 studies see here.
Here I will try to collate all of the full text original articles for the 20 core studies in the AS course. If you know where I can find a publicly available copy of any of the missing ones please let me know. :)
Also, I am [...]

Autism is a developmental disorder that we investigate in the first year with Simon Baron-Cohen. One of the impairments that some autistic people were thought to have was an in-ability to interpret emotions from facial expressions and many studies have provided support for this thesis. However, autistic children are able to interpret the mental state [...]

In the first year core studies we look at Bandura and his ideas on Social Learning Theory (SLT). Basically, SLT says that we learn by imitation of role models around us. In his study he exposed children to an adult role model being aggressive towards a ‘bobo’ doll and then gave that child [...]