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13 Jan 2025
Psychology In The News | WEIRD Culture, Money, and Incentives
During your study of psychology, you may have realised that most research studies have been conducted in Westernised cultures involving participants from these cultures. A 2008 survey of top...
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6 Jan 2025
Psychology In The News | Unconscious Exposure Therapy
As part of your study of Psychology, you may have learned about phobias. Defined by the NHS as an ‘overwhelming and debilitating fear of an object, place, situation, feeling or animal’ around 10...
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10 Dec 2024
AQA A Level Psychology Festive Quizzes | 2024
Here is the 2024, Psychology Festive Quiz selection!
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9 Dec 2024
Psychology In The News | Treating Voice Spasms
Researchers have discovered a potential new treatment for laryngeal dystonia (LD), a neurological condition that causes voice spasms and makes speech sound strained and hoarse. The study,...
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18 Nov 2024
Psychology In The News | Is Smoking Here to Stay?
The glamourisation of smoking is making an unexpected comeback in popular culture, with celebrities leading the charge. From Charli XCX's lyrics about cigarettes and Bic lighters to Rosalia's...
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4 Nov 2024
Psychology In The News | Mapping Insect Brains
Scientists have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in neuroscience by mapping the entire brain of a fruit fly, identifying the position, shape, and connections of 130,000 neurons and 50 million...
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28 Oct 2024
Psychology In The News | Plasticity in Pregnancy
Recent research reveals that the human brain undergoes significant changes throughout pregnancy, marking a critical transition in preparation for motherhood. This groundbreaking study provides the...
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14 Oct 2024
Psychology In The News | Social Media and Boredom
In our hyper-connected world, smartphones offer endless entertainment at our fingertips. Yet, a recent study by Tam and Inzlicht (2024) suggests that rapidly switching between online video content...
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7 Oct 2024
Psychology In The News | The Dark Side of Fame
In recent months, rising pop star Chappell Roan has been making headlines not just for her chart-topping success, but for her outspoken stance against toxic fan behaviour. Roan's experience...
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30 Sept 2024
Psychology In The News | Orangutans Mirroring Humans
Dublin Zoo recently embarked on a ground-breaking initiative to help Mujur, a 19-year-old orangutan, learn to breastfeed her newborn. After two unsuccessful pregnancies where Mujur failed to...
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23 Sept 2024
Psychology In The News | New Options for OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a complex and often misunderstood condition affecting 1-3% of people worldwide. Recent research has shed new light on its underlying mechanisms, involving a...
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12 Aug 2024
Psychology In The News | Why Do Hens Blush?
A study conducted by French researchers at the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment has discovered that female chickens can blush when scared or excited, and fluff...
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5 Aug 2024
Psychology In The News | Gay Conversion Therapy in Italy
In June 2024, the BBC reported the case of Rosario Lonegro, a 20-year-old aspiring priest in Sicily, who was subjected to conversion therapy in 2017 after falling in love with a man at his college....
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29 Jul 2024
Psychology In The News | The Changing Face of Dating
Language and the Dating Scene In the digital age, dating apps have revolutionised how people connect, introducing a new lexicon of acronyms that can be both helpful and bewildering. Gone are the...
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15 Jul 2024
Psychology In The News | Are Menstrual Cycles and Cognitive Abilities Linked?
Research by the UCL Institute of Sport, Exercise, and Health challenges long-held assumptions about women's abilities during menstruation. Published in Neuropsychologia, the research involved 241...
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10 Jul 2024
Psychology In The News | Do Ceilings Affect Exam Performance?
Recent research conducted in Australia has uncovered a surprising connection between room architecture and academic performance. The study, published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology,...
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10 Jun 2024
Psychology In The News | Cry Baby
New research has cast doubt on the idea that the reason for a baby's cry can be determined just from the sound. Recently published research found that neither artificial intelligence algorithms nor...
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3 Jun 2024
Psychology In The News | Curing Phobias May Help Others
Newly released research has found that exposure therapy for a specific phobia, such as a fear of spiders, could also help reduce other unrelated phobias like a fear of heights. This surprising...
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27 May 2024
Psychology In The News | The Art of the Assist
In the fast-paced world of football, split-second decisions can make or break a game. Knowing when to pass the ball and when to hold back requires a combination of perceptual and cognitive...
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20 May 2024
Psychology In The News | Is Internet Use Linked to School Absences?
Research published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood has linked excessive internet usage, inadequate sleep, and lack of exercise to an increased risk of truancy and illness-related school...
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