writings about psychology

 PSYCHOLOGY MISCELLANY

January 2010 - Issue No.7

1. Studying children in orphanages: Studies fifty years apart

2. Self-recognition in birds, apes and humans

 

February 2010 - Issue No.8

1. Issues related to common childhood mental disorders

2. Testosterone and human behaviour

3. Measuring attention in children in the laboratory: TEA-Ch

4. Destination memory

 

March 2010 - Issue No.9

1. Children separated from parents by military combat deployment

2. Good and bad pride

 

April 2010 - Issue No.10

1. Friendships, relationships, and sexual orientation in later life

2. Thinking about future and past events: defensive pessimism vs optimism

3. Mass psychogenic illness

4. Two strategies for emotion regulation

 

May 2010 - Issue No.11

1. Singleness, mixed methods and dialoguing across divisions

2. Modern reproductive technology ad new research designs

 

June 2010 - Issue No.12

1. Coercion and psychiatry

2. Spiteful behaviour

 

July 2010 - Issue No.13

1. Grief and acceptance

2. Substance abuse in two Arab countries

3. The Muller-Lyer illusion as intelligence test

4. Green consumers are morally superior?

5. The name-letter effect and other consequences of a person's name

 

August 2010 - Issue No.14

1. Measuring sleep in a specific sample: Individuals with autism

2. Obedience to authority: Two classic field experiments

3. Studying very long-term memory: Bahrick et al (1975)

 

September 2010 - Issue No.15

1. Estimating another person's age

2. Mental health of children in immigration detention in Britain

3. Clever experiments with clever children

4. Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT): Outline for a debate for and against its use

 

October 2010 - Issue No.16

1. The body in society: an introduction to the issues

2. The perception of mass human fatalities

 

November 2010 - Issue No.17

1. Marriage in the twenty-first century: two variations on the traditional

2. Cultural differences in perception: some recent research

 

December 2010 - Issue No.18

Special Issue - "Re-enchantment of the world"

1. "Re-enchantment of the world", civil religion, and "consumer capitalism"

2. Telephone telepathy

3. Superstition and luck