About PsyBlog & Jeremy Dean
This website is all about you and me. It's about understanding how our minds work and why we think and act the way we do. Of course bookshop shelves groan with this sort of material in the self-help section, but this site has one crucial difference with much of that material: PsyBlog focuses on scientific psychology.
Research covered here has been published in reputable academic journals in many different areas of psychology. To give you a flavour there is a series on the top 10 social psychology studies, the 7 sins of memory and the psychology of money. You can find more links to articles arranged by themes on the left-hand side of the page. Individual popular articles are on the right-hand side.
PsyBlog's author
My name is Jeremy Dean and I am currently a researcher at University College London, having previously completed an MSc in Research Methods in Psychology at the same institution. Before that I obtained a Graduate Diploma in Psychology. My first degree was in Law and before studying psychology I had a career in the internet industry.
Thank you WordPress
This blog runs on a rather wonderful Open Source, free-to-use blogging platform called WordPress. Should you be in the market for such a thing, I thoroughly recommend it.
Say hello below
Finally, welcome to PsyBlog and thanks for stopping by. If you'd like to say hello, feel free to email me with your thoughts.
Hi! I'm a student from malaysia and i stumbled upon your blog by accident. however, i am pleasantly surprised to find a very informative and entertaining blog.. great job, and keep it up!:)
Very glad to have you Nurul - thanks!
Hi Jeremy,
I'm a graduate student in Neuroscience at Iowa looking at motivation and emotion in depression. Very interesting blog.. I stumbled across you (very) late last night. I look forward to talking about emotion /psychology/just cool mind-brain stuff when I've woken up a bit!
Hi, I must say this is a terrific site. I will sure come back for more.
I'm a Psych prof and am pleased to see someone out there trying to tell the world about the scientific side of psychology. There is too little appreciation for experimentation and too much reliance on correlations.
I present Nisbett & Wilson every year, but your article gave me pause - has anyone tried to replicate this work? Why are we still so heavily focused on a 1977 article? This prompted a search and I uncovered the work of Petter Johansson (see his 2005 article in Science and his 2006 article in Consciousness and Cognition). You may wish to give it a look - I've only scanned it but it looks like a nice update on N&W.
Cheers, Mike
Hi Mike, I was thinking exactly the same as I was writing up these studies. Thanks for tracking down this article - I've glanced at it and it looks to be worth writing up.
Thanks again!
Also hello to scaramouche and peace - welcome to PsyBlog!
I came across with your blog and is a very interesting blog. I'm a waitress and I work for a DRAMA Queen restaurant and your blog have help me for personal interest. Great content and Good job! am enjoying it very much! Thank you.
Rosa, thank you, glad you're enjoying it.
Hellow. I am a Psychology major and planning towards graduate school in a year or so. Stumbled your blog. Very informative and interesting. Thanks
Hi, I am the manager of a legal team in a multinational. I am also the father of an autistic boy. I have been interested in psychology for both reasons. I noticed your poll and responded but wanted to comment that I find your blogs informative and interesting - quite a feat!
I'm an engineering undergraduate in my fourth year, and I'm interested to know if the field of psychology has found a way to strengthen or sharpen one's ability to think mathematically or scientifically (besides say, flash cards with addition problems). Certain pathways of thought are very simple for me, like verbal learning, but mathematics take more time for me to process. Obviously as an engineer I'd like this not to be the case...
Hi Ashna, Mun and Dan - welcome! Dan, the only technique I know is to find a good teacher!
I have really enjoyed your blog since discovering it a couple of months ago. Your posts are always interesting, and I find myself following your links for more and back-linking my mini-blog with increasing frequency. Thanks for tickling the little grey cells.
Lorre, glad you like it - and thanks for commenting.
i discovered "Predictably Irrational" through your blog, read it and enjoyed it a lot. Also, your other posts are interesting and well written. Congratulations on this great blog!