Monthly Archives: November 2018

Post Of The Week – Monday 26th November, 2018

November 26, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Replication Crisis We’ve been working in Year 1 on a correlational study. Some of the correlations turned out the way we expected based on previous research, some didn’t. This article explains the findings of the Many Labs 2 study. It aimed to replicate the findings of 28 important studies, with 14 replications coming up […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 18th November, 2018

November 18, 2018 · by · in Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Research Methods · Leave a comment

1) Food Preference We’ll be starting Eating Behaviour in Year 2 very soon. Here is a podcast about food preference, including an experimental procedure where a taste test is paired with different sounds.   2) Mind As A Machine This video is remarkable. It forms the basis for an exploration of what it means to […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 11th November 2018

November 11, 2018 · by · in Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Nature - Nurture, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) I Call My OCD “Olivia” We have been thinking about treatment for OCD in the context of free will and determinism in Year 2 this week. This piece from the BBC looks at cognitive approaches to both explaining and treating OCD. There is a section on ERP: Exposure And Response Prevention therapy. This uses […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 4th November, 2018

November 4, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Seven To Eight Hours Of Sleep This article reports research which suggests that everyone needs 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night. That’s important for the research we look at on circadian and ultradian rhythms.   2) Improving Antidepressant Outcomes When we write about the effectiveness of a therapy, we assume that we […]