Festive Psychology

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With the holiday season upon us I thought it would be appropriate to showcase a couple of psychology articles related to this special time of the year.

Tis the Season: The Psychology Behind Christmas Cards

Article by Jesse Bering which looks at psychological studies that have examined Christmas card behavior.

Click Here To Read The Article.

Give Holiday Shopping Stress the Heave-Ho (and Spend Less too!)

Suzie Pileggi shares some thoughts on applying the principles of positive psychology to the everyday-demands of life.

Click Here To Find Out if You Are A Satisficer or A maximizer.

Happy holidays everybody and all the very best for 2009.

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Psychology Book of The Month (November 2008)

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The psychology book of the month for November is the excellent Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn & Jeffrey M. Lohr.

Click on the following link for full details.

Psychology Book of The Month

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Political Psychology

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Photo Credit: Thomas Hawk

I think it's fair to say that after senator Barack Obama's historic election victory, political psychology will become an increasingly important and influential area of study.

With this in mind, I've added a political psychology page to the types of psychology section of the website.

Click Here To Visit The political psychology Page

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Psychology Dictionary

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An excellent new resource has been added to the psychology dictionary page.

Developed by staff at the ITS Tutorial School in Hong Kong and edited by Lucinda Pike, The Psychology Dictionary & Glossary features over 1200 terms and concepts that students are likely to encounter when studying psychology. You can access this extremely useful resource by clicking on the following link.

Psychology Dictionary / Glossary for Students

For more excellent free psychology resources (articles, referencing and writing advice etc), just click on the following link.

Psychology Student Resources

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Psychology Jobs

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Photo Credit: Zach Klein

I've just added a psychology jobs directory to the main website. This new page connects you to a network of websites that list hundreds of psychology related job vacancies.

Just click on the following link to start your psychology job search.

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War of The Ghosts

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This psychology blog post arose from a query posted on the psychology questions section of the website, namely:

I have been searching the Internet trying to find a copy of a tale used in an experiment on memory. I thought it was used by Watson or James (not really sure). Anyway, it had something to do with warriors and canoes.

The experiment in question was by British psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett who used a Native American folk tale "The War of The Ghosts" to test the notion of 'schema', namely the cultural and historical contextualisation of memory.

I'd forgotten (no pun intended) just how interesting and important this research was; and in the process of revisiting it, I came across an excellent radio broadcast on the subject which you can listen to in full by Clicking Here

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Psychology Newsletter

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I've just sent out the latest edition of the All About Psychology Newsletter which includes a Halloween special on the psychology of fear. If you would like to read the newsletter, you can do so by clicking on the following link.

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Psychology of Attention

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Photo Credit: Stéfan

The following video was created by the Open University and is designed to test your powers of perception. I'd be very interested to find out how you did and what you thought of the test. If you do the test, make sure you've got the sound on your computer turned on.

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Psychology Fiction

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Photo Credit: Paul Allison

Having added a psychology movies page to the website, it seemed a logical step to also examine psychology fiction within books and literature.

The psychology fiction page highlights the work of authors who are recognized for writing responsibly when presenting portrayals of psychology to the general public. The psychology fiction page also takes a look at some of the most popular fictional psychologists out there.

Visit the psychology fiction page.

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