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Jeremy Dean's Psychology Blog
http://www.spring.org.uk
At heart we are all psychologists. So keep up to date with the latest ideas from the science of psychology. Many useful, some very strange, all of them interesting.
- Added on: Mar 10th, 2005
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
Recent Posts
When Situations Not Personality Dictate Our Behaviour
A modern test of an ancient bible story demonstrates the power of situations to trump personality in determining behaviour. A fundamental mistake we often make when judging other people is assuming that their behaviour mainly reflects their personal...
New Deepak Chopra iPhone App
Sponsored post: new 'Stress Free' iPhone application available at Deepak Chopra Mobile. Deepak Chopra, author and proponent of alternative medicine, is developing a new series of iPhone applications designed to tackle stress. The first in the series...
How Other People’s Expectations Control Us
We quickly sense how others view us and play up to these expectations. A good exercise for learning about yourself is to think about how other people might view you in different ways. Consider how your family, your work colleagues or your partner th...
Our Minds Are Black Boxes – Even to Ourselves
The stories we weave about our mental processes are logically appealing but fatally flawed more often than we'd like to think. We all have intuitive theories about how our own and other people's minds work. Unfortunately psychological research demon...
Basking in Reflected Glory
Classic social psychology study explores our yearning to bask in the reflected glory of successful others. Here in England we have a strange tradition called 'test cricket'. It's a ridiculous game that goes on for five days, stops for tea and bad li...
Ads For Unhealthy Foods Increase Children’s Consumption 45%
New psychology research demonstrates a direct effect of snack food adverts on increased consumption for both adults and children. Nowadays the word 'obesity' is rarely seen in print without its partner-in-crime, 'epidemic'. The developed world seems...
