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Post Of The Week – Saturday 22nd February 2020

February 22, 2020 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Nature - Nurture, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

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 28th December 2019

December 28, 2019 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

1) Ed Bullmore We came across Ed Bullmore talking about nature-nurture the other week in Year 2. Here is a piece about his work on inflammation and depression. The article is also useful for understanding how science takes a more holistic approach. Depression is no longer assumed to be one thing. Research into cancer now […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 14th December 2019

December 14, 2019 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Neuroscience, Obedience, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

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 […]

Post Of The Week – Tuesday 22nd October 2019

October 22, 2019 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Learning, Memory, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Siblings Of Problem Gamblers When we study risk factors in addiction, we look at the idea of personality as a risk factor, linking this to genetic differences in impulsivity between individuals. As evidence, we use work done by Karen Ersche which featured in a BBC news report a few years ago. This evidence from […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday, 11th July 2019

July 11, 2019 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Social Influence, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Screen Time Here is a piece of video from Andrew Przybylski about the effects of screen time. This piece from The Guardian also by him covers similar ground. It’s an example of popular fears being out of step with the science.   2) And On Gambling …. Andrew Przybylski comments at the end of […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 27th June 2019

June 27, 2019 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Research Methods · Leave a comment

1) Chris Packham: Asperger’s And Me This programme was originally broadcast in 2017 and is back on iPlayer for the next three weeks. It deals not only with the symptoms of autism but asks broader questions about abnormality and cure.   2) All In The Mind This has been a fine series. It looks like […]

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 – Sunday 9th December 2018

December 9, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Neuroscience · Leave a comment

1) Hyperthymesia This video from SciShow explains hyperthymesia, also known as highly superior autobiographical memory. There are references to the work we do on memory and also on OCD. This article makes a link to the practical we run on false memory at the start of Year 2.   2) How The Brain Works This […]

Post Of The Week – Tuesday 4th September 2018

September 4, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Biopsychology, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Learning, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Social Influence, Stress, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

1) Genes And Educational Achievement This article explains recent research about the influence of genes on educational achievement. It is bigger than you might think.   2) Parity Of Esteem Here is Will Self’s account of a friend being sectioned and placed in a mental hospital. He has some uncomfortable and controversial things to say […]

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 […]

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