Quick and dirty personal view / summary of classic social psych experiments and effects: Asch & Milgram: some caveats, but still great Bystander effect: over-hyped, but still valid (1/n)

Fascinating paper on gender and brain injury. How boxers were identified as suffering brain damage, but victims of domestic violence had 'emotional problems' sciencedirect.com/science/articl… from @TheNeuroTimes and Kelly O'Donnell

Renata and Haizea in year 10 have set themselves the challenge of reading ‘The man who couldn’t stop’ (OCD) and ‘Man (dis)connected’ (Gender) before the end of the winter break 📚

Nash is currently reading Mr. Farnan’s favourite book, ‘Bad Science’ by Dr. Ben Goldacre

Renata and Harsh in Y10 will be reading David Eagleman’s ‘The Brain’ over the festive break 🎄

"Later school start times lead to improved academic attainment & improved wellbeing for teenagers" - do you agree with this latest article from Deloitte Middle East? deloittemiddleeastmatters.com/2020/01/28/do-…

Selfie-posting frequency can be predicted by grandiose narcissism, study finds psypost.org/2020/01/selfie…

Hollow Mask Illusion: As the mask rotates & you start to see the inside of the mask, suddenly it appears as if it’s sticking out towards you (and rotating in the opposite direction) before you see the front again and the effect disappears.

Y13 students have been researching the effect of anonymity on aggression today 🙈

Today y12 students have been solving a murder using their understanding of eyewitness testimony research #whodunnit

Relevant reading for all competitors at today’s Sports Day 💪🏼 digest.bps.org.uk/2019/04/26/is-…

Descriptive statistics in as few words as possible Central tendency: Mean- Add up scores & divide by number of entries Median- Scores in order & choose middle one Mode- Most common score Dispersion: Range- Biggest score minus smallest Standard deviation- Average spread from mean

Why might feeling sad make it harder to stop smoking? What do preschoolers make of gender imbalances in power? And do emotion words mean the same thing in different languages? Find out in our latest newsletter - and subscribe to get updates every Thurs mailchi.mp/lists/the-prec…

Footstep Illusion: These two blocks appear almost like two feet, taking it in turns to step forward. However, when you remove the striped background you realise they are not stepping at all, nor taking it in turns, but moving smoothly and in time. #psychology #footstepillusion

Some interesting discussions today regarding Elizabeth Loftus sharing her research on EWT in the Weinstein trial #sociallysensitiveresearch

Kids like learning from confident adults — but only if their confidence is justified: Emma Young digests a recent PLOS One study from Susan Birch at UBC Psychology & colleagues digest.bps.org.uk/2020/02/11/kid…

Great for GCSE Perception and Gregory revision!

People who watch more TV find thinner women more attractive, even in remote Nicaraguan communities: Emma Young covers a new study looking at how recent access to Western media has influenced body image digest.bps.org.uk/2020/02/25/peo…

This situation is going to result in a huge amount of totally novel research into pandemics, the effects of isolation and conformity. Should be mega interesting