Gender and Helping Behaviour (Coursework)

This one looks at similarities between males and females in terms of most psychological variables - brief reference to Eagly and Crowley on helping behaviour.

Here you can examine the effect of sex and mood on helping.

This time it's Eagly and Crowley's meta-analysis in detail.

Gender related traits and helping behaviour.

Predicting helping behaviour - focused on gender roles .

Research for fear

There's a good write up on this link about Mineka and how she taught monkeys to fear.

http://www.loc.gov/loc/brain/emotion/Mineka.html

'Laboratory-reared rhesus monkeys do not show a fear of snakes, so this fear is not innate. After lab-reared monkeys observed for only a few minutes a wild-reared monkey reacting with intense fear to a live boa constrictor...'

Gender & Conformity (Coursework)

There is an incredibly useful article available on blackboard for this project title. Go to the coursework resources section under AS Psychology.

Coursework Proposal Form

In case you're bored or confused...

... you might fancy having a trial go at the coursework proposal form... here it is... this is what we'll be filling in the week i come back from Paris...

remember, you can be getting on with the first draft of your introduction while i'm away...

Gender and Obedience (Coursework)

Table for Milgram experiments around the world - some specify differences in results using male and female participants. Extract from a book including a section on gender differences in obedience.

Eyewitness Testimony (Coursework)

Study from Cornell Uni showing how memory of an event can be affected by our judgment of the person involved - read on.....

Faulty memory issues (Coursework)

More Loftus material here. This one has useful reference details too!

Leading Questions & Eyewitness Stuff (Coursework)

Useful link to an article by Loftus. This covers loads of her own research as well as reference to a study by Harris on leading questions and the height of basketball players...

More Cwk things

Perceptual Set - with some ambiguous figures

Change Blindness Demo - someone was thinking of doing this I think...

More Change Blindness

And even more Change Blindness links

Environmental Stressors - scroll down for an intro.

A wiki on environmental stressors - some good references

Online book on Aggression

Schemas - intro

mindhacks and matt ruff

i dont know if this link has been posted further back in the archives here, but its a blogg thats definately worth a look. www.mindhacks.com . its regularly updated and has links to articles on new psychology research on pretty much anything. a little taster of whats on the site:

"Mirror touches:
Nature reports on a recently discovered form of synaesthesia where affected individuals actually feel a sensation when they observe someone else being touched.
Synaesthesia is a condition where senses become crossed, so people might seeing colours when they encounter numbers, or tastes when they hear certain words."

ive found out some really odd things on there.

i read saxon's blogg entry on sybil, a film about a girl with MPD, and on a similar note:



set this house in order is worth a peek if your into that kinda thing.

Some sources for Coursework

I'll add these when I find them:

Something on Gender and Conformity - you have to scroll down and look!

more on gender and conformity here and here and here and here

helping behaviour is here and here (general social psych articles/slides/powerpoints etc) and here

webpage for Elizabeth Loftus

An Abstract of a study on conformity and age

Heyer and Barrett abstract on interference and sensory modality

allport and postman schema study

bits and bobs about schemas - useful as a starting point for searches

interference - Underwood and another article on Underwood himself

more studies on interference - scroll down

the piliavin helping behaviour experiment on the subway

lots of experiments on helping behaviour

intro to helping behaviour

large article on State Dependent Memory and Forgetting

online book on memory and forgetting

fear and appearance of animals

even better on fear and appearance of animals