Well, I’ve sat here for the last few days racking my mind as to what ‘special’ thing I could do for the 100th post here on PsychBLOG. I remember writing the first tentative post back in April when the site looked very empty – it’s bad enough looking at an empty page, but an empty […]
PSYlent: 28th October 2007
Here is the next PSYlent, the weekly overview of those stories that I think are pretty interesting in psychology but don’t really apply to OCR. Seems a shame to miss out on them just because I can’t get them to fit into the specifications. So, here are those studies that would have been without a […]
Move into the Ven (Evaluation Exercise)
As we have launched our new site recently (and if you haven’t already been over there – go – well after reading this) I am going to write about some great ideas that psychology teachers could change and adapt to their class room and teaching style. So, to start off is an exercise that I […]
New issue of In-Mind
It was a good while ago (well back in April) when I first talked about In-Mind. Back then it was just starting out as a blog-come-journal-type-thing in social psychology. Well, over the last few months it’s gone from strength-to-strength and it’s one of the sites I make sure that I read when I have a […]
Why blame me? It was all my brain’s fault!
This is a review of an article from The Times – The dubious rise of ‘neurolaw. The article links in well with the Raine et al. study. I’ve written before about studies looking at the effect of brain damage on behaviour and if this could mitigate criminal behaviour and it seems that in some cases […]
I’m [not] the only fatty in the village
Social Comparison Theory and Obesity As we are becoming more aware of the health implications of obesity and what we eat, from the ‘let some pretentious cow tell you what not to eat’ programmes to the traffic lights (which are appearing on the front of all my favourite foods telling me exactly how unhealthy what […]
Zimbardo Conference with SWC
Zimbardo has been quite a popular character here on PsychBLOG over the last 6 months: he’s released a book (which was reviewed by Phil Banyard), he’s been dropped from the specs and when I get around to finishing the mammoth article there’s a ‘what kind of person volunteers for a prison experiment’ post. After all […]
So we’re not really THAT bad? Kitty Genovese
” 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 […]
Share & Exchange @ PsychExchange.co.uk
Over the last two weeks I have been working with Mark Holah on a new site to add the the collection that we have going. PsychExchange is a resource sharing site aimed at Psychology teachers from all over. Here we will be able to upload, share and exchange files, resources, and ideas for lessons, schemes […]
Empathising-systemising (E-S) theory
Simon Baron-Cohen has become well known in the media for the development of empathising-systemising (E-S) theory. Empathising is the drive to identify another person’s emotions and thoughts, and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion. Systemising is the drive to analyse and explore a system, to extract underlying rules that govern the behaviour […]
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