Lights. Camera. Action.

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 [...]

Happy Birthday PsychBLOG and Free Stuff

It was exactly a year ago today that I made that first tentative post wondering if the only people to read this blog would be Mark, my students, and, well … me. That hasn’t been the case and it’s been a fab year - although I didn’t realise exactly how much time and work [...]

Contact little ol’ me

If you feel the need to get in touch with me (I always like to get emails) then there are many ways that you can. I spend far too much time working at a computer so you can almost guarantee that you’ll get a reply in some-way-shape-or-form. Some reasons you might want [...]

A Century of Posts!

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 [...]

PsychBLOG mit* Go-Faster Stripes

Apologies if you have been trying to access the site over the las 48 hours and have been given an error message (or just a blank page). As the site is getting more popular it’s now been promoted to a new shiny fast server in Germany. Hopefully you should see a massive improvement [...]

Get writing for your chance to be a winner!

As we approach the a century of posts, impressive I know, I’ve been thinking about how to celebrate this milestone. Over the last 6 months I have managed to rant and muse upon many different areas of psychology specifically relating to the OCR specification. We’ve also seen the new specification for 2008 go [...]

The fresh face of PsychBLOG

Those more frequent users of the site should have noticed that it’s had a face lift! Not only have things changed on the face, but I have been doing some work ‘behind the scenes’ so the site should be faster too.
So, the new term has started (well at least for me it has and [...]

Buone vacanze!

I will be traveling around Italy for the next two weeks so I’m afraid that there wont be anything new posted here until then. If you’re stuck for something to read though you could try some of the other excellent psychology blogs or pop over to the BBC Body and Mind site where there’s [...]