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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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13 May 2024
Psychology In The News | The Costs of Smoking
New research shows that the increasing cost of cigarettes in England is becoming a major factor in encouraging smokers to try and stop smoking. A monthly survey of nearly 6,000 people in England...
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6 May 2024
Psychology In The News | Does Watching Sport Boost Our Wellbeing?
You may well be looking forward to a summer of sport with Euro ’24, the Olympics, and the Paralympics all taking place this year. Watching sports, particularly in large gatherings, goes beyond mere...
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29 Apr 2024
Psychology In The News: Smartphones and Infants
You may have studied the still-face paradigm as part of your learning about the Attachment topic. The still-face paradigm is designed to study the effects of disrupted interaction on infant...
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15 Apr 2024
Psychology In The News: Do Our Dogs Understand Us?
Whilst it is widely accepted that dogs can learn basic commands such as ‘sit’ and ‘stay’, new research has revealed that they can also comprehend the meaning of certain nouns, especially for...
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8 Apr 2024
Psychology In The News: Talking During Menopause
New research suggests that psychosocial therapies including mindfulness, group counselling, and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) could be effective treatments for menopause symptoms, such as low...
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1 Apr 2024
Psychology In The News | Bust a Move and Improve Your Mood!
New research links dancing to mood and motivation. If you’re revising and find yourself in a slump, get up and dance - it may lift your spirits and spur you on! Schmidt et al (2023) found that...
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25 Mar 2024
Psychology In The News: Post Concert Amnesia
As the nights get lighter your thoughts may well be turning to summer gigs – maybe you are lucky enough to have a ticket to see Taylor Swift on her Eras Tour or are looking forward to seeing your...
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18 Mar 2024
Psychology In The News: The Vaping Ban
Disposable electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have been available to buy in the UK since 2013 and now approximately 3.1 million of the UK population ‘vape’. In recent years, e-cigarettes have...
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11 Mar 2024
Psychology In The News: Sorry, Not Sorry
New research reveals that the most effective apologies defy traditional gender stereotypes in language. Psychologists Polin et al (2023) wanted to explore how the content of apologies, as well as...
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4 Mar 2024
Psychology In The News: Footballers See The Light
As sports people continue to search for marginal gains to improve their performance, more and more are realising the critical importance of sleep. Proper sleep is vital for recovery, muscle protein...
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1 Mar 2024
Are We Measuring Stress Accurately?
Our stress response is not completely understood and therefore we must question whether we can measure stress accurately enough. Now more than ever, we need to understand and measure stress as we...
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26 Feb 2024
Psychology In The News | Opposites Don't Attract
A new study published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour suggests that romantic partners tend to be very similar, sharing up to 89% of their traits. In the largest study yet of human partner...
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23 Feb 2024
Psychedelic Drugs for Psychiatric Treatment?
Are we about to see a renaissance in psychedelic drug use for psychiatric treatments? After psychedelic research was shut down in the 1970s, there is now a surge in the requirement for new research...
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23 Feb 2024
The Mandela Effect
What if I told you your mind is capable of creating false memories and lies? Collective false memories pose a gap in research and theories to explain this phenomenon. One could even explain this as...
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21 Feb 2024
Key Term Glossary for AQA A-Level Psychology
Here is a link to our new free-to-download AQA Psychology Key Term Glossary.
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