The Chaos Theory of Career Development

25 March 2005

Most of us like to think that we have chosen our occupations, rather than them choosing us. We have reasons for what we are doing, visions of where we want [...]

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Children’s Tastes Develop Early

23 March 2005

"Children's ideas about the foods they enjoy are formed very early, according to a University of Birmingham study. Psychologists there have found that babies weaned on rusks are more likely [...]

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Freudian Slips

23 March 2005

You can listen online to a five part series on Radio 4 that examines four of Freud's works 100 years after they were first published. Each programme is only 15 [...]

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Self-Help Books Criticised

22 March 2005

Dr Petra Boynton (left), the sex and relationship psychologist, provides some useful criticism of self-help books in response to an article in the Guardian Weekend. She points out that the [...]

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Time Dilation on Radio 4′s All In The Mind

20 March 2005

When asked to estimate a three minute period of time, 20 year olds are significantly more accurate than the middle aged or elderly. Why? It seems that the elderly experience [...]

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Debate on Psychological Sex Differences

18 March 2005

The heated debate on the average differences between the minds of men and women rumbles on. A perfectly rational and psychologically sound article published earlier this week in The Guardian [...]

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Unusual Research in Psychology

17 March 2005

I need your help with some nominations for the most unusual research in psychology. Zimbardo's prison experiments or Milgram's compliance research are both unusual and strange in their own ways, [...]

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