Monthly Archives: February 2016
Post Of The Week -Saturday February 27th 2016
1) That Milgram Study Again Here’s an account of the study related to Milgram’s procedure which has been reported in a couple of places in the media over the last week. http://www.nature.com/news/modern-milgram-experiment-sheds-light-on-power-of-authority-1.19408 What’s useful here is the explanation of the procedure: what was being measured and how this relates to Milgram’s ideas about obedience. Milgram […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 20th February, 2016
1) In The Mind When this blog started two and a half years ago, references to public perception of mental health in the media were rare enough to include a link in a post. They have now become so common that it would be foolish to include everything which comes up. The centrepiece of the BBC […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 13th February 2016
1) The Mirror Test When we study the development of the sense of self in A2 Cognition And Development, we refer to the mirror test. 15 month old children sitting in front of a mirror will remove a red dot from their forehead, suggesting that they understand that the person in the mirror is “them”. […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 6th February 2016
1) Peter Kinderman On Antidepressants And Adolescence Here is Peter Kinderman’s commentary on the report published a couple of weeks ago on the risk of suicide arising from adolescents’ use of antidepressants. https://theconversation.com/when-teenagers-and-antidepressants-are-not-a-good-mix-53945 Kindeman makes a point which has been around for a long time but which is often ignored. Antidepressants energise people but do […]
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