The exploring psychology blog is the place where I highlight and explore the most fascinating and compelling psychology related news and research.
Whether you are new to psychology, currently studying or thinking about studying psychology, or consider yourself an expert in the field, I very much hope that you find the material featured on the exploring psychology blog interesting.
Real World Psychology is the latest section to be added to the All About Psychology Website.
What is Real World Psychology?
Real World psychology, is relevant to people's lives, it makes you think, it challenges your assumptions and makes you curious.
Each topic featured on the Real World Psychology will begin a trigger i.e. something that will hopefully elicit a response along the lines of "Well I never", "I didn't see that coming" "Now there's food for thought" etc.
The psychology behind the topic will then be outlined along with resources that can be accessed for anybody who wants to learn more e.g., full text psychology journal articles.
This classic study in selective perception demonstrates how an Ivy League football game was perceived differently by opposing fans, particularly in relation to their opponents "blatantly unsportsmanlike play". This simply designed psychology classic stimulated additional research into concepts such as social cognition and cognitive bias.
You can read and download this classic psychology journal article for free via the following link.
A leading practitioner in the field of positive psychology, Tal Ben-Shahar currently teaches the most popular course at Harvard University. Influenced by the pioneering work of Dr. Martin Seligman, Tal Ben-Shahar states that his goal in teaching positive psychology "is to create a bridge between the Ivory Tower and Main Street, to bring together the rigor of academia and the accessibility of self-help.
You can find out more about this influential expert in positive psychology via the following link.
The psychology of dogmatism is as relevant today as when Dr. Milton Rokeach began his pioneering work into this enduring topic. The ideas contained within this important paper informed the development of the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale and stimulated research into the psychology of human belief systems and dogmatism as a personality trait.
You can read and download this classic psychology journal article for free via the following link.
Forming Impressions of Personality by Solomon Asch is a classic study in the psychology of interpersonal perception. The central tenet of this research is that particular information we have about a person, namely the traits we believe they possess, is the most important factor in establishing our overall impression of that person.
Among other things, this classic psychology journal article introduces the concept of central versus peripheral traits and the "halo effect". You can access Forming Impressions of Personality by Solomon Asch via the following link.
I've just launched The Psychology Journal Articles Collection which provides completely free access to classic full text psychology journal articles, including material from the most eminent and influential psychologists of the 20th century.
See following link for full details on this new addition to the website.
The first article in the collection is The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information by George A Miller; which you can access via the following link.
Came across a brief but thought provoking interview with Dan Gilbert Professor of Psychology at Harvard University; who addresses such issues as the problems facing psychology, exciting developments in psychology and the foundation of modern psychology.
In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself (Lev Vygotsky 1896-1934)
Despite his premature death at the age of just 37, Lev Vygotsky is widely considered as one of the leading developmental psychologists of the 20th century. In addition to his seminal contribution to the relationship between language and thought, Lev Vygotsky also put forward ideas regarding the psychology of play, in particular the process of self-regulation through creative play.
This classic article which was orginally given in the form of a speech provides several key insights into Lev Vygotsky's theories of play.
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I've just added a Sigmund Freud page to the All About Psychology Website, from where you will be able to access detailed information and resources relating to the man who is widely considered as one of the most influential and controversial minds of the 20th century. Information headings include:
Get To Know Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud Theories
Quality Sigmund Freud Links
Recommended Reading
You can visit the Sigmund Freud page by clicking on the following link.
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life is one of Sigmund Freud's least technical and, therefore, most accessible publications. Drawing on personal anecdotes and real life examples, Freud explores the psychological mechanisms underpinning the forgetting of names and order of words, mistakes in speech and mistakes in reading and writing etc.
Originally published in 1901, this work by Sigmund Freud was first translated into English by A.A Brill in 1914, who in his introduction provides a clear and concise account of the thinking behind the Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
Psychoanalysis always showed that they referred to some definite problem or conflict of the person concerned. It was while tracing back the abnormal to the normal state that Professor Freud found how faint the line of demarcation was between the normal and neurotic person, and that the psychopathologic mechanisms so glaringly observed in the psychoneuroses and psychoses could usually be demonstrated in a lesser degree in normal persons. This led to a study of the faulty actions of everyday life and later to the publication of the Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
The Freudian Slip
This was the book that gave us what we now refer to as "The Freudian slip". As Freud states in the Psychopathology of Everyday Life:
Although the ordinary material of speech of our mother-tongue seems to be guarded against forgetting, its application, however, more often succumbs to another disturbance which is familiar to us as "slips of the tongue.
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I have a first class honors degree in psychology and a Masters in Occupational psychology from the University of Sheffield (UK). For a number of years, I was a lecturer in psychology at the University of Huddersfield (UK).
In 2003 I moved to sunny Spain with my family, where I now work as a distance learning tutor and research dissertation supervisor.
