writings about psychology

Psychology Miscellany No.158 - 20th December 2021

Bioethics and Choice

1. Organ donation

2. Treatment refusal

3. Choice

4. Miscellaneous issues

Psychology Miscellany No.157 - 10th December 2021

"Food Fights"

includes:

Personalised or precision nutrition

Intermittent fasting

Ultra-processed food

Food waste

Psychology Miscellany No.156 - December 2021

Covid-19: Looking Back to Look Forward (1st July 2021 - 30th November 2021)

including:

• Covid-19 modelling in the UK in 2020
• Cruise ships
• Vaccines

Psychology Miscellany No.155 - November 2021

Lifespan Topics

1. Personality changes over time

2. Menopause: Two disciplines

3. Life course

4. Dementia vs Super-Agers

5. Problem behaviours

6. Supporting mothers

7. Ageing and eusociality

8. Gender in two areas

9. Studying mathematics

10. Presenting the self

11. Some health issues

Psychology Miscellany No.154 - October 2021

1. Heterosexual anal intercourse

2. Evolution and cultural evolution

Psychology Miscellany No.153 - September 2021

Development and Education

1. Home schooling

2. Giftedness

3. Effects of institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation

4. Children and creativity

5. Classic research: Goldfield and Reznick (1990)

Psychology Miscellany No.152 - 15th August 2021

Politics and economics

1. Political neuroscience

2. Non-human primate economic behaviour

Psychology Miscellany No.151 - August 2021

Health and Stuff

1. Burden of disease

2. Drugs and substances

3. Internet and health information

4. Pre-pubertal bipolar disorder

5. Health and various

6. Fairness, justice and diversity

Psychology Miscellany No.150 - July 2021

Covid-19: More knowledge and controversy (1st April - 30th June 2021)

1. Overview of concerns

2. Covid-19 and nature

3. Looking back and forward

4. Transmission, control and risk

5. Mental health

6. Conspiracy theories and misinformation

Psychology Miscellany No.149 - June 2021

1. Social media: 3 areas of research

2. Offline perception

Psychology Miscellany No.148 - May 2021

1. Rich, poor and elites

2. Risk: Two different angles

Psychology Miscellany No.147 - April 2021

Covid-19: Mostly social studies (February-March 2021)

1. Covid-19 Social Study

2. Healthcare heroes

3. Effects and issues

4. Mental health and psychological resilience

5. Carers of individuals with learning disabilities

Psychology Miscellany No.146 - 15th March 2021

Health Again

1. Medical borderlands

2. COPD and depression

3. Methodological cautions

4. Encouraging global physical activity

5. Food

6. Smoking

7. Global psyche

8. Health shorts

9. Pre-term birth and later health

10. Grandfather clause

Psychology Miscellany No.145 - March 2021

"Crimish" and Normality/Abnormality

1. Offending across the lifespan

2. Protective gun ownership

3. Victims and public trust in the criminal justice system

4. Classic research: Personality and crime

5. Terrorism as mental abnormality

6. Normalisation of gambling

7. Sexual-related crimes

8. Authoritarianism

9. Alcohol and impairment

10. A conceptual model of Jonestown

Psychology Miscellany No.144 - 10th February 2021

Covid-19: Happy new year? (January 2021)

• Vaccines
• Health behaviours during lockdowns
• Varied consequences of a pandemic
• For better, for worse

Psychology Miscellany No.143 - February 2021

"Cognitish"

1. Memory

2. The AHA! moment

3. Avoidant grief and thought avoidance

4. Decision-making and cognitive reflection

5. Not-thinking-for-speaking

6. Motion perception and texture

7. Miscellaneous consciousness

8. Resolutions

Psychology Miscellany No.142 - 15th January 2021

Humans and Others

1. Homo sapiens

2. Hominins

3. Tool use and cognition

4. Learning and evolution

5. Art, rituals and social life

6. Sperm competition

7. Sleep and cycles

8. Emotions

9. Water

10. Frogs

11. Fliers and insects

12. Mammals

Psychology Miscellany No.141 - January 2021

Covid-19: More knowledge? (October - end of 2020)

1. Epidemiology

2. Immune system and vaccination

3. Non-pharmaceutical interventions

4. Negative responses

5. Psychological health