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.
Originally published in The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods in 1908, The Power of Music By Halbert Hains Britan is the latest addition to the psychology journal article collection. An initiative by the website www.all-about-psychology.com to make important, insightful and engaging publications freely available.
If you would like to read The Power of Music, you can do so via the following link.
Yale Fox researches social nightclub behaviour with a particular emphasis on music and how it affects people at an implicit level. With a background in biology, psychology, and sociology, Fox investigates such topics as how music can affect bar sales and people's ability to multitask, how it determines listening patterns, and how the stock market can affect mood, which in turn predicts the characteristics of popular music.
Fox's research has been published in international publications, documentaries, and textbooks. Additionally, Yale's position in the nightclub industry gives him access to a vast quantity of unique data, which has already led to some remarkable conclusions.
For more information on this fascinating research, check out Yale Fox's blog on the science of nightlife - http://www.darwinvsthemachine.com/
This is the latest video added to the "TED Videos" playlist on the Psychology YouTube channel.
You can access all the videos on the Psychology YouTube channel via the following link.
This quote from Thomas Szasz forms part of an initiative to create a repository of psychology images that can be freely used for non commercial purposes. You can see the full collection of images available via the following link.
This classic publication elevated Thomas Szasz into a position of international renown and controversy. According to Szasz, the concept of mental illness is fundamentally flawed because it is based on the premiss that it is caused by nervous system disorders; in particular brain disorders which manifest themselves via abnormal thought patterns and behavior.
To Thomas Szasz most cases of "mental illness" are routed within a social context, and are in fact problems of living, and should, therefore, be recognised as so.
If you would like to read "The Myth of Mental Illness," A free full-text copy of this Thomas Szasz classic is available via the following link.
Another classic example of psychology being sensitively employed to help inform public awareness campaigns!
This illustration forms part of an initiative to create a repository of psychology images that can be freely used for non commercial purposes. You can see the full collection of images available via the following link.
I'm very pleased to announce that in conjunction with psychologist Michael Britt (http://www.thepsychfiles.com/), work is about to start on an updated edition of the Psychology Student Survival Guide.
Benefits of the updated version of the guide will include:
New/revised content, information and resources.
A more interactive iPhone/iPad version (drawing on Apples's new iBooks Author software).
Also available on Android smartphones and tablets.
As with the first edition of the guide, student/user feedback is very much appreciated. With this in mind, we'd be very grateful if you could take a look at the current guide and let us know what you would like to see in the updated version. There is a guide feedback form (half way down the page) over at the main website which can be accessed via the following link.
For over a hundred years the Gifford Lecture series has been one of the foremost academic forums dealing with religion, science and philosophy. In 2009 Neuroscientist and professor of psychology Michael Gazzaniga delivered 6 lectures under the series title: The Science of Mind Constraining Matter.
Lecture 1: What We Are?
Lecture 2: The Distributed Cerebral Networks of Mind.
Lecture 3: The Brain Divided: Discovering The "Interpreter."
Lecture 4: The Meaning of Being Free.
Lecture 5: The Social Brain.
Lecture 6: We Are The Law.
All of these outstanding lectures are now available as a playlist on the Psychology YouTube channel. See following link.
The Psychology of Fear is the latest addition to the psychology journal article collection. An initiative by the All About Psychology website to make important, insightful and engaging publications freely available.
If you would like to read The Psychology of Fear over at the All About Psychology website, you can do so via the following link.
I've had a passionate interest in psychology for over 20 years. I began studying psychology in 1990, and I've been teaching psychology in some capacity or another since 1998.
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).
I have built four websites around my teaching and research interests.
