Tag Archives: Milgram
Post Of The Week – Tuesday 4th May 2021
It’s been a busy time with assessments. Nevertheless, Psychology carries on. Here are some recent highlights. 1) Steven Pinker On Milgram Here is the lecture from his Harvard series. Steven Pinker recommends watching Milgram’s own film. You can find that here. 2) The Reunion – Romanian Orphanages Here’s a radio programme about the Romanian orphanages […]
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 – 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 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 […]
Post Of The Week – Thursday 28th November 2019
1) Grand Theft Auto If you play video games, you are probably familiar with the claim that they lead to violent acts. This article looks at the problem using qualitative data, examining the perspective of the participants. It is the value systems which these games represent rather than the violence within them which seems to […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 6th October 2019
1) Eugenics: Science’s Greatest Scandal The work we do on the nature-nurture debate now has its origins in the eugenics movement in the late nineteenth century. This programme explores these ideas. I haven’t watched it yet but it looks excellent. 2) Talking To Children In Year 1, we look caregiver-infant interactions at the start […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 23rd September, 2018
1) Neurofeedback When we study phobias, we look at the way in which a conditioned fear response is replaced with a more positive response in systematic desensitisation. The problem with this is that the person still has to be exposed to their feared object or situation, albeit in stages. Neurofeedback gets round this in an […]
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