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I spoke about this conference a while ago and the tickets were very popular and sold out. As a result of some cancellations there’s about 50 tickets now remaining to get to this conference set up by Cara Flanagan through South West Conferences.  You can go on the 18th or 19th of March - but you must contact Cara directly to get these tickets.
This conference offers a [...]

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 voice on PsychBLOG; or as I’m going to call them: PSYlent!

Well here [...]

I have written about Health Promotion a bit in the past but over the last few months there’s been quite a lot of talk about it so here I am going to collate it into another carnival of research.

1) Increase the costs to get them doing it.
The Health Belief Model states that we need to evaluate the costs involved before performing a health behaviour - is there threat a [...]

Well it’s that time of year again: florists and chocolatiers are selling over priced roses and heart shaped chocolates; Woolworths has got the ‘Love Land’ toys out again; and we’re all reaffirming our commitment to the one our heart belongs to (and sometimes to our partners too!) So, never one to miss the chance to jump on the band wagon, here’s a Valentines Special. From around the [...]

There has been a lot of talk about Phil Zimbardo recently - he seems to be getting everywhere making sure that we all know about his new(ish) book - from appearances on popular US television to lectures on evil and the Lucifer Effect there’s been plenty of discussion.

We study (well at least at the moment) Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment in the AS where we try to understand why seemingly [...]

Recently I posted some videos of Roger Sperry’s research into lateralisation of function in epileptic patients who had had their corpus callosum severed to varying degrees. Now for more Sperry related goodies: how to test your corpus callosum (and no surgery is needed!). Basically all you have to do is:
You need to ask someone to close their eyes and put their hands face up.

You then touch one [...]

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. Last year I wrote about research that suggested, contrary to what Bowlby thought, [...]

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 videos are few-and-far-between so thanks to Rebecca for her help finding them and also her great talk in Leeds.

So [...]

Over the next few weeks I am going to cover the five new studies on the 2008 specification and see what resources are around for them already. I was lucky enough to go the the OCR inset in Leeds on Wednesday where both Griffiths and Richer & Haslam were speaking. It was a good day and the speakers were excellent (shame OCR gave the wrong version of [...]

The influence of our role models on behaviour is something of particular interest to psychologists and we study it through the entire psychology course. More specifically we look at the research conducted by Bandura and his work into Social Learning Theory (SLT) in the imitation of aggression. In a television advertisement called “Children See. Children do” which was actually aired in Australia a few year ago [...]