writings about psychology

1. Randomised controlled trials: An example with an anti-depressant

2. Alcohol and aggression: Researching this link using self-reported questionnaires - An example

3. Twin studies - Researching genes and environment

4. Studies of monkeys and apes: Laboratory vs naturalistic studies

1. Neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry: New versions of old issues in research ethics

2. Hard to find the truth: Asking questions about the frequency of sexual intercourse with structured questionnaires and interviews

3. Transgenic studies in psychology: A new issue for animal research ethics

Studying genetic origins of behaviour: fruit flies, knockout mice, humans and sleep

Watching people have sex in the name of science: controlled observation vs participant observation

Reliability and validity of psychometric instruments: the example of student evaluation of teaching effectiveness

The use of complex experiments in social psychology

1. The medical model, diagnostic categories of mental disorders, and the problems in assessment

2. Five ways of using the case study method in psychology with examples: learning from political science

3. Post-mortem studies and diagnosis of mental disorders

4. Asking questions: individual versus group interviews

1. Structured versus unstructured observations: two examples from studying children's play

2. Measuring thinking objectively in cognitive psychology using reaction times: two classic studies

3. Scientific psychology and what to do with non-statistically significant results

4. Discourse analysis and discursive psychology: an introduction with examples

1. Memory accuracy, Bartlett, Loftus, and the precision of the laboratory experiment

2. Psychology students as participants in psychological research

3. The diffusion of responsibility and bystander intervention and apathy: commonsense and experimental psychology

4. A diary study of face recognition: Young et al (1985)