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” At 3:20 AM on March 13, 1964, Winston Moseley attacked Catherine (Kitty) Genovese in front of a 2 story Tudor building on Austin Street in Kew Gardens, NY about 50 ft. from a bar known to generate loud, late night rowdiness. He stabbed her twice in the back. Her screams awakened some residents of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

All those lucky teachers out there now have another fantastic resource to help in their teaching of psychology. Classic Studies in Psychology is brought to us by Dr. Steve Taylor. The Short Cuts packages consist of a number of short video clips designed to give teachers the flexibility to integrate illustrative video material into their [...]

Another addition to our video section is upon us. This time it’s a replication of the Milgram experiment on obedience. Derren Brown replicated the experiment as part of his show (this episode was called The Heist). I think it’s a great resource to use when discussing the relevance of the study in [...]

There’s a new CD (which are 12cm – thus the title) out that should be on all of your wish lists this summer: Mark Holah (with LearnByIT) has just released Core Studies in Psychology CD aimed at colleges and teachers as a teaching and revision aid and it’s well worth checking out.
From the press release:
This [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]