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Post Of The Week – Saturday 10th July 2021

July 10, 2021 · by · in Biopsychology, Depression, Early Social Development, Memory, Neuroscience, Social Influence · Leave a comment

1) Fragile Rationalism To Collective Resilience These two concepts are discussed in this paper by Stephen Reicher and Linda Bauld about the response to the pandemic of the UK government. They are interesting for us because the idea of fragile rationalism seems to me to owe its origins to the work of Asch, Milgram and […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 7th April 2019

April 7, 2019 · by · in Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour · Leave a comment

1) Perfectionism We refer to perfectionism in the context of cognitive explanations of depression. It’s an example of all or nothing thinking. Anything less than perfection is unacceptable. We also relate perfectionism to the development of anorexia nervosa. People who believe that only control over everything is good enough. In this video, Hank Green also […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday March 7th, 2019

March 7, 2019 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Depression, Evolutionary Psychology, Nature - Nurture, Obedience, Social Influence · Leave a comment

1) Autism And Anorexia We increasingly come across the idea that people have more than one disorder at a time, perhaps because those disorders have common causes. This BBC report looks at how autism and anorexia are linked. It is interesting for us because the conventional psychological explanations do not apply: distorted body image, social learning, […]

Post Of The Week – Wednesday 30th January 2019

January 30, 2019 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience · Leave a comment

1) Electro-Convulsive Therapy We used to study this as part of our A Level. Many myths surround its use. Here is a useful and balanced view from TED-Ed.   2) CBT For Weight Loss When we study psychological explanations of obesity, we look at how distorted beliefs about diets leads to people gaining weight. This […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 30th September, 2018

September 30, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Eating Behaviour, Nature - Nurture, Research Methods, Social Influence · Leave a comment

1) Sarah-Jayne Blakemore On The Teenage Brain She is on BBC Inside Science here: you need to wind about 19 minutes into the programme. She talks about recent experiments about risk taking. There’s an interesting example of how experiments about the effect of having a peer next to you in a driving simulation game is […]

Post Of The Week – Monday 20th August 2018

August 20, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Research Methods · Leave a comment

1) Tobacco And Psychosis One of the evaluation points we use when evaluating methods of reducing addiction in relation to tobacco is that many people use tobacco to help them deal with mental health problems. Methods of reducing tobacco use are likely to be ineffective if the problem underlying tobacco use is somewhere else. This […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 5th August 2018

August 5, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Biopsychology, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience · Leave a comment

1) Addiction To Online Gaming Here is Mark Griffiths talking sense about what is or isn’t addiction to online gaming. That should remind us that when psychologists use the term “addiction”, they mean something quite specific. The details are here.   2)  The Great God Of Depression How we think of mental illness changes as […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday June 16th, 2018

June 17, 2018 · by · in Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Nature - Nurture, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) The Genetics Of Depression There are two articles here. This one just out from the EDIT Lab looks at a paper published last year. It focuses on 44 genetic variations associated with depression. It makes the claim that “depression is largely a disorder of the brain”. In our course, we are encouraged to think […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 25th March 2018

March 25, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Depression, Nature - Nurture, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Genetic Basis Of Educational Achievement Here’s the latest from the IOPPN on genetics and educational achievement, looking ate differences in polygenic scores between students in different types of school. This should get us thinking about nature and nurture. Students, you won’t be surprised to hear, are different from each other.   2) Psychological Treatment […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 4th March 2018

March 4, 2018 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Genetic Basis Of Autism I’ve been working on the Biological Approach this week in preparation for the work we will do in Year 1. I’ve been looking in particular at the idea that with OCD, we cannot link a particular gene to a particular neurochemical abnormality in a particular part of the brain. This […]

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