Why Correlations can't establish Causality

Here are a few examples of what we were talking about re: Bowlby's 44 Juvenile Thieves.

Prosopagnosia Tests etc

There's a Famous people Face recognition test here. Here's the Super Recognizer test, if you were good at that last one... or even if you weren't. Upside Down faces thing and this one isn't expecially related but sort of relates to our next topic so you can do this one too.... it's the Judging Face Attractiveness one you're after...

Yellowlees and The Cognitive Approach to Schizophrenia

Go here for an article about this...

Adorno and the fascism scale

here's the adorno fascism scale test, for (sort of) fun.

Why are Things Creepy?

Dopamine Hypothesis round 2

Excess dopamine & more receptors



More receptors

Excess dopamine

More receptors

Excess dopamine

More receptors & excess dopamine

Dopamine Hypothesis

Explanation 1 - excess dopamine

Explanation 2 - more dopamine receptors

Explanation 1 & 2 together



A neuron





Explanation 2 & 1

Is Psychology a Science?

Go here to find out...

What if?

ECT as a comic

If you want to know all about ECT, you could do worse than start with this, an 11 page comic detailing the use and ethics of ECT.

Psychopathology in the Movies

Here is a reasonably fun exercise to help you identify certain mental disorders. Watch the clips and then match up the disorders.

DSM V

Some articles on the proposed changes from the current version DSM IV-TR to DSM V. DSM V should be out very soon and if you're thinking of studying Psychology at Uni etc it would be good to know a little about it because I'd imagine courses are going to be talking a lot about it! DSM V DSM considered by PsychCentral 'A sad day for psychiatry'

Assumptions

Just watch it.

The AS IF Principle

Face Morph

Go here and click the image

Koluchova Twins

You may have seen this in your Revision Booklet...

Here's a brief summary of the case study

Eating Behaviour at the BPS Digest

Here's some highlights... How many food-based decisions do we make? Does eating more slowly help stop over-eating? Change your hand to change your eating? Do you have a fatty food radar?

VMH Rats and Hunger

Here's the original article (bits got stolen from this for the booklet) Go here to find out what else the Hypothalamus does... some of this will come in useful... Quite a bit here about Hunger and Eating

Eyewitness Testimony

A failure of Memory

An article on the reasons why memory can fail

Dating Ad sites

Just to get you started... remember, you should have a pre-identified sample and (probably) a predetermined amount of Ms and Fs to study... I'd say about 30 of each is about right...

Here's some links:

Here

Here

The Alpha Male Myth

Interesting article about the myth of the alpha male in Evolutionary Psychology. Might be good for evaluation of attraction...

Test Your Senses

Here's an interactive test to see how good your senses are...

Waist To Hip Ratio Reconsidered

Here's an article that might be useful for some evaluation points when talking about the evolutionary theory and the WHR...

The Matching Hypothesis and Celebrity

There's a page here about this... Look at it!

Can we think of any couples that aren't matched?

Why Do People Laugh at Sick Jokes?

Article on the BBC website here...

Illusions and Neuroplasticity

And then go here...

Illusion Of Control

Good article by Ben Goldacre of Bad Science on the illusion of control bias...

Thatcher Illusion

With partial explanation here:

5O First Dates

The film 50 First Dates is based around Drew Barrymore, who has a neurological condition that causes her memories of the day to be erased during the night.

Here's a case study of this happening in real-life.

Are We Really Attracted To Our Relatives?

Freud thought we may be unconsciously attracted to our relatives - especially our siblings, our parents, even grandparents.

Here's a recent study that suggests he might be right.

Late Tips for Valentine's Day

The BPS research digest gives lots and lots of excellent dating tips for men and women.

Basically, the Psychology of pulling....

The Lucifer Effect

Zimbardo's - good stuff for AS Social Psychology

GO HERE

Milgram Stuff

All kinds of quizzes and interactives here.

Evidence That You DO Marry Your Father...

Research here seems to indicate that Freud and Bowlby etc might be right; we do end up marrying people like our parents and maybe this is due to a template for attraction / relationships developed at an early age?

Go find and then take a good look at your parents

Gay Men's Faces

Gay Men prefer Masculine faces

c/o of Ben W-B

Murderous Genes

A Murderer has his sentence reduced because of 'aggression genes'? Here's where the Free Will vs Determinism debate kicks off...

More about it here.

More On Sexual Selection

Little article on Human Reproductive Behaviour

Relationships

Lots of studies and theories here - could be useful!

Bits and bobs related to understudied relationships.

Some very surprising experiments on relationships.

A summary of the formation of relationships.

Are You Faceblind?

Go here and take part in the experiments.

And you can go here if you want to find out more about Prosopagnosia. Some interesting summaries of current research / theories / ideas etc.

Make Yourself Sick

There are lots of woozy images out there in Perceptual Illusion land but this is one of the better ones...



Stolen from Richard Wiseman's excellent blog

Facial Symmetry

Remember what I said about symmetry and attractiveness? Here's the test.

Get a good picture of yourself and see what happens. Print out the results and let us all see...

Here's me as I am in all my asymmetrical splendour:



And here's the mirror combinations:





Mmmm....

Ugliness and Aggression?

Is there really a link between how you look and how aggressive you are?

And while you're on the BPS Digest page, subscribe to it; lots of good stuff appearing all the time...

Kevin Chappell

Here's a really good article about Kevin Chappell (from the Visual Disorders DVD)

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

Here's an article about him. You really should have looked here.

DaveSaid

A website for AQA Psychology... worth a look...

Flipping Dancer

Which way is she turning? Can you make her turn the other way?

Ok, so it probably doesn't work on here, it does work here though...