Category Social Influence
Post Of The Week – Saturday 30th January, 2021
1) Measuring Diversity This blog from Kings College London EDIT lab explains some of the problems with the terms we use to describe diversity. It calls for a constant process of reflection and challenging of assumptions. That is a point we look at when considering gender and culture bias in Psychology in Year 2. 2) […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 16th January 2021
1) Mysteries Of Sleep The BBC is repeating a series of three programmes about different aspects of sleep. You can access all of them here. They look useful for our work on Biopsychology in Year 2. 2) Arts On Prescription This article looks at evidence that arts workshops can have a positive impact on people’s […]
Post Of The Term – Saturday 19th December 2020
The blog has been inactive for a while. It’s been a busy term. Here are some Psychology highlights of the last three months related to our course. 1) The Battle Over Dyslexia In Psychology, much depends on how we define disorders. This article tells the story of how dyslexia was originally diagnosed, how that diagnosis […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 13th September, 2020
1) False Memory We’ve started Year 12 with a practical on false memory. It uses the same procedure as Year 13 used at the end of last term. Here’s a piece of video from TED Ed about false memory. Its author is a professor at Harvard. 2) Poverty, Well Being And Diet I have been […]
Post Of The Week – Thursday 27th August 2020
The blog has been away for a while. The growth of the pandemic and in particular the reliance on non-pharmaceutical interventions both seemed like impossible obstacles to writing a blog. Commenting on obedience, conformity and social change risked people taking research the wrong way and doing things which put them at risk. I didn’t want […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 22nd February 2020
1) Three Things I Wish More People Knew About OCD This blogpost is by someone who lives with OCD. We will be looking at OCD in Year 1 at the end of this half term. 2) Nudging Here is a piece about how people can be influenced to make small changes in behaviour. […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 8th February 2020
1) Separation When we study Bowlby’s theory of maternal deprivation, we set it in the context of the upheaval of the Second World War. This article explains how across the world, such separation is now experienced by very many children. 2) Language Centres Here’s Hank Green doing some great stuff on Broca and Wernicke, […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 25th January, 2020
1) Science Of Evil This is essential listening for us in relation to the Social Psychology we do. It places the work of Asch, Milgram and Moscovici as well as some other psychologists in its social context and specifically cultural context. It does so in a critical and informed way which adds to our understanding […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 14th December 2019
1) Altruism We used to study this as part of the A Level course. Here’s a radio programme about two major thinkers in this area, George Price and Joan Roughgarden. 2) Are babies capable of making moral decisions? This video from PBS explores this idea. It’s a development of the work on infants’ understanding […]
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