Are Homophobes Gay Themselves?
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Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates. The study is the first…

Written on Friday, 06 April 2012 05:00 in Psychology News Be the first to comment! Read more...
Improve Your Golf By Visualising a Bigger Hole
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Golfers looking to improve their putting may find an advantage in visualizing the hole as bigger, according to a new study from Purdue University.

Written on Tuesday, 03 April 2012 05:00 in Psychology News Be the first to comment! Read more...
Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Children Copy Parent's Methods of Control
Written by Keiron Walsh

Does using physical punishments to control children make it more likely that they will use physical aggression to control each other? Will children use the same emotional methods of control that their parents use? These are…

Written on Monday, 17 August 2009 15:33 in Child Development Be the first to comment! Read more...
Violent Video Games Can Increase Aggression for 24 Hours
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There is much research that shows that playing violent video games like Halo: Reach and Grand Theft Auto increases a person's aggression. New research is now showing that this potential for aggression can last as long…

Written on Monday, 20 September 2010 13:39 in Aggression Be the first to comment! Read more...
First patient treated in European cardioprotection phase III trial with NeuroVive's CicloMulsion
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Mitochondrial death inside cardiac or brain cells is a key cause of the extensive secondary phase of additional damage and disability to heart muscle in heart attacks and to brain cells in traumatic brain injuries. NeuroVive's…

Written on Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:30 in Psychology News Be the first to comment! Read more...

Working Memory (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974)
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Baddely and Hitch believed that the STM store in the Multistore Model was too simplistic: they thought that short term memory was not a passive store, but several active processes that manipulate information.

Written on Saturday, 15 March 2008 10:19 in Memory 18 comments Read more...
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
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Piaget believed that there is a qualitative as well as a quantitative difference in the intelligence of young children, compared with older children and adults. There is a quantitative difference because adults have more knowledge of…

Written on Saturday, 08 March 2008 15:54 in Cognitive Development 8 comments Read more...
The Multistore Model of Memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1968)
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Atkinson and Shiffrin's Multistore Model of Memory suggests that there are three separate memory stores, Sensory Memory (sometimes called the 'sensory store'), Short Term Memory (STM) and Long Term Memory (LTM). Each store has a different…

Written on Thursday, 28 August 2008 09:46 in Memory 13 comments Read more...
AQA-A Psychology Unit 3 Options
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In Unit 3 of the AQA-A Psychology Specification, candidates must develop knowledge, understanding and skills of analysis and evaluation in relation to three topics selected from the following:

Written on Sunday, 31 May 2009 15:49 in Unit 3 Be the first to comment! Read more...
How to Spot a Narcissist From Their Facebook Profile
Written by Keiron Walsh

Narcissism is a personality disorder, characterised by "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy" (DSM IV-TR). Narcissists have an exaggerated sense of self-importance, believe they are special and unique, have…

Written on Tuesday, 23 September 2008 05:42 in Interesting 7 comments Read more...