With the popularity of YouTube many people are turning to it to make their own little videos for revision and other classroom activities. So, we’re (Mark and I) putting a competition together for all our readers. We want you to get those cameras out and start to make your own video. It [...]
Back in January I talked about a fascinating video from a TED conference where Vilayanur Ramachandran discussed a new ‘treatment’ for phantom limb pain that he had come up with: the mirror box. I’m fascinated by phantom limb pain as I feel that it provides massive support for the thesis that pain perception is [...]
Within Crime-Victim interaction we look at the ‘fear of crime’ and many students learn about the British Crime Survey as part of this. More-and-more so students are using out-dated versions of the BCS (like pre-2000 which seems to be in many text books) which are methodologically flawed in their delivery. Following [...]
There has been quite a bit of research on the effectiveness of police lineups and whether presentation of the ’suspects’ could affect the reliability of the outcome (see here for a huge list of research). One of the big questions is should we show all the suspects together (as above) or is identification more [...]
March 21, 2008 – 11:13 am
It’s widely accepted that when a person suffers from stress this has massive negative effects on that person; both psychologically and physically. Much research has provided support to the idea that a being stressed can effect our immune system quite drastically making us prone to illness. However, could being exposed to a stressed parental environment [...]
February 16, 2008 – 12:33 pm
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 [...]
January 26, 2008 – 11:15 am
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 [...]
January 10, 2008 – 12:00 pm
The A2 Crime module covers a wide range of areas and the Home Office has an excellent resource which could come of use to you for lessons or just to get a little wider ranging information on crime theories, models and practice.
Over the past 2 decades our understanding of crime and crime reduction has grown. [...]