Eco-anxiety
Are worries about the climate crisis and the multitude of environmental challenges facing us and our families making us ill? This BBC Radio report asks whether eco-anxiety is different from any...
Almost 4,000 A-Level Psychology teachers are now active members of the largest group of Psychology teachers in the UK!
Psychological ownership of apps
This piece from the Conversation argues that tech firms such as Facebook and Uber are able to leverage commercial gains from when users build a relationship with a faceless technology such as a...
Brenda Milner celebrates her 101st birthday!
Brenda Milner is 101 today. The celebrated Canadian is widely credited with pioneering the field of cognitive neuroscience and has been called one of the world’s foremost authorities on memory.
Psychology Teacher Survey 2019
Win £200 of tutor2u Psychology resources for your school or college by adding your opinions to the 2019 Psychology Teacher Survey.
This short video looks at the marketing campaign for Sans Forgetica which is a new font built on the psychological principle of desirable difficulty. Minor obstructions to the reading process force...
The dates and locations for our 2020 programme of AQA A-Level Psychology Grade Booster Exam Workshops are now available.
ASMR's Effects on the Brain & The Body
A wacky video from Wired in which a neuroscientist explains Autonomous sensory meridian response's effects on the brain & the body.
How Smartphones Sabotage Your Brain's Ability to Focus
This video from the Wall Street Journal argues that addiction to smartphone emails and notifications has a cost in terms of our attention and ability to focus.
Do you have lots of creative and innovative ways to teach Psychology? If so, get in touch and your ideas could be turned into professionally designed resources.
‘Hangxiety’ - The Impact of Alcohol on the Bran
This Guardian article explores the impact of alcohol on the brain, including a potential cause of anxiety.
The Psychology of Winning
Here is a special video documentary from the Economist looking at recent developments in sports psychology used with elite sportsman and sportswomen. Is sports psychology a phoney science or can...
Introducing the 2018 tutor2u Christmas Quiz...with a Psychology bonus!
We're delighted to announce that the annual tutor2u Christmas Quiz for 2018 is now live!
Reliability and validity - Kilogram gets a new definition
Scientists have voted to change the definition of a kilogram after more than 100 years. Read about it here.
Professor of Positivity
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker claims our life is actually getting better. Channel 4 News interviews him on his perspective.
What Happens to Your Brain When You Play Fortnite...
The psychology of computer games is explored in this short video which explores what happens to the brain when playing Fortnite.
Two New Resources Published for IB Diploma Psychology Covering Developmental Psychology
tutor2u IB Psychology has just published two new essential teaching resources to support colleagues delivering the Developmental Psychology topic for IB Diploma Psychology.
Top Ten Psychology Movies to Get You to The End of Term!
As is often the case in English Departments across the country, students read the book and then get to watch the film afterwards without the guilt of pulling a movie-based lesson! However, in the...
A Mini WOW! Psychology with the PGCE Crew at UCL!
We visited the Psychology PGCE students at University College London today and gave them a whistle-stop tutor2u tour. It was a great chance for us to see if we could WOW them with some of the...
University Guide 2019 League Table for Psychology
Here is the link to the Guardian's 2019 league table rankings for university psychology departments. As always - look carefully at the methodology used to assess the institutions. Other guides are...