Monthly Archives: July 2018

Post Of The Week – Sunday 29th July, 2018

July 29, 2018 · by · in Cognition And Development, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Resilience Training This article from the Mental Elf reviews resilience training in schools. It’s useful for us for several reasons. Firstly, it’s an example of how CBT can be applied effectively to different contexts and therefore another example of the flexibility of CBT. Secondly, it raises the issue of generalisability. Effectiveness may well depend […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 22nd July 2018

July 23, 2018 · by · in Cognition And Development, Depression, Research Methods, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) A Bit More On The Stanford Prison Experiment Here is the response of Reicher and Haslam on the BBC Prison Experiment website. This covers some of the same ground as previous commentary from them. They lay out an explanation of the guards’ behaviour based on identity leadership.   2) Our World In Data – […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 15th July 2018

July 15, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Using Virtual Reality To Treat Phobias A few months ago, I posted a link to a BBC article about virtual reality treatment for fear of heights. This week, a research study has been published in The Lancet. You can read about it here, along with using a link to the original study. Here is […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 8th July, 2018

July 8, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Nature - Nurture, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) More On Zimbardo The controversy about Zimbardo’s study rolls on. Here is a link to a piece in the BPS Research Digest. What’s particularly valuable is that you can read a pre-print of the research by Haslam and colleagues here. The idea that the study is a study of obedience rather than conformity is […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 1st July 2018

July 1, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Research Methods, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Stanford Prison Experiment Here is a piece from The Psychologist about Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. Zimbardo is still gamely sticking to his story about the validity of the study as you can see here. For me, the central point is that the distinction between conformity to social roles and obedience which our specification makes […]