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Human Relationships

  • Agression vs. Altruism
  • Altruism - Innate or learned?
  • Altruism - Marsh TED TALK
  • Altruism - New Study- pay for pain
  • Altruism and Religion
  • Altruism and the brain
  • Altruism and the Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
  • Altruism versus Prosocial
  • Best way to ask for a favor
  • Empathy vs. Sympathy
  • Everything about the Genovese case
  • Friendship at first sight?
  • Helping behavior between races
  • How to get people to like you
  • How your brain decides what is beautiful
  • Interpersonal attraction
  • Science of attraction
  • The Prisoner's Dilemma
  • The science of attraction
  • TTW: Are we all bigots?
  • What would you do?

VIOLENCE/AGGRESSION

  • Anti-bullying
  • Bullying - CNN
  • Effects of longterm violence
  • Exposure to violence and a child's brain
  • Finland's Anti-bullying Program
  • How the internet made bullying worse
  • Insult, Aggression and Southern Culture
  • Longterm effects of violence: domestic violence
  • Males, Aggression and Gun Use
  • Mind of a Murderer
  • Sports, head trauma and violence
  • The Killer's Brain
  • Video Games and Aggression
  • Your brain on fear

Bystander Effect

  • Bystanderism with Zimbardo
  • Everything about the Kitty Genovese Case
  • Good Samaritan Study (Keating)
  • Kitty Genovese - 14 minute video explanation of case study
  • Kitty Genovese - article
  • Kitty Genovese Video
  • Much of what we've been told is wrong

Internal Assessment Links

  • APA Reference generator
  • Chi Square calculator
  • Inferential stats
  • OPERATIONALIZE!!!!
  • statistics FAQs
  • Statistics guide
  • t-test
  • T-test or Chi-square (HL only)
  • T-test vs Chi-squared
  • Types of Data
  • Why research shouldn't be trusted

Abnormal Behavior: Depression

  • A Brilliant Madness: John Nash Story
  • Andrea Yates
  • Anorexia video
  • Are all mental illnesses related
  • BBC: A history of the madhouse
  • Bhui: culture and diagnosis
  • Childhood guilt = Adult depression?
  • Clues to the roots of depression
  • Cognitive Therapy History: Beck Institute
  • Culture and Mental Illness
  • Culture Bound Syndromes
  • Culture bound syndromes: diagnosis and treatment
  • Depression - Effects of Culture
  • Depression - UK
  • Depression Across Cultures
  • Depression Across Cultures (book)
  • Depression and Culture
  • Depression and Culture and Language (full chapter)
  • Depression Overall
  • Depression rates by industry
  • Depression, The Misunderstood epidemic
  • Depression: Cultural Aspects
  • Depression: East-Asian vs North American
  • Diagnosis and Gender Bias
  • Diagnosis and Minority groups: OCD
  • DSM V Revisions on Depression
  • Dying to be anorexic
  • Etiologies of Depression
  • Facebook and Depression
  • History of the "Snake Pit"
  • How anxiety makes you smarter
  • Is depression a kind of allergic reaction?
  • List of Popular Psychotherapies
  • Living With Alzheimer's (vid 57 min)
  • Mental hospitals then and now
  • Mental illness = life events not genetics
  • Mentally ill in Indonesia
  • Problems with Psychiatric Diagnosis
  • Psychopathy vs. Sociopathy
  • Rosenhan 1973 - On Being Sane In Insane Places
  • Rosenhan 1973 Wikipedia
  • Rosenhan 1973: Video Summary
  • Rosenhan: Video Lecture: Diagnosis
  • Stigma and Mental Illness
  • Stigma: Last Week Tonight
  • Stigmatization and speaking out
  • SZASZ: the myth of mental illness
  • Timeline of Mental Illness
  • Upside of Anxiety?
  • Van Gogh and Mental Illness
  • We Are All Weirdos

Abnormal: Eating Disorders

  • Discrimination of overweight people
  • Eating disorders and twins
  • Effects of the media on body image
  • FIJI: culture and bulimia
  • Garner et al.
  • Jaeger et al.
  • Online eating disorder communities
  • Salina's Bulimia (video)
  • SCLOA - discrimination of the overweight
  • The starvation study

ABNORMAL: Treatment of Depression and Bulimia

  • 5.7 Information to help you form your answer
  • 5.8 Information to help form your answer
  • Bulimia Treatment
  • CBT - Why patients don't finish
  • CBT and brain scanning
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Diagnosing mental illness
  • Electro Convulsive Therapy
  • Electro Convulsive Therapy (video)
  • History of the Lobotomy
  • How SSRI's work
  • MBCT article
  • MBCT: Mindfulness based cognitive therapy
  • MDD ad Light Therapy
  • MDD and Placebos
  • MDD and Talk Therapy
  • Psychotherapies
  • Race and therapy
  • Treatments of Depression

Developmental Psych

  • A child's brain on poverty (good graphic)
  • Attachment Theory - the strange situation (video)
  • Can you spot a 3 year old psychopath?
  • Childhood chaos isn't always so bad
  • Criminal responsibility
  • How poverty affects the brain (short video)
  • Imagination in children's play (short video)
  • Piaget (video)
  • Play and development
  • Poverty and academic performance
  • Poverty Shrinks Brains
  • Poverty, Behavior and Academic Performance
  • Two ages of great brain vulnerability
  • Why we play (audio)

Exam tips and preparation

  • How to avoid common mistakes on your exams
  • IB exam full revision book
  • Know this idea for Paper 3
  • Paper 1 Section A tips: video
  • Paper 1 Section B tips: Video
  • Past Exam questions
  • Research methodology

Why psychology is so cool

  • 10 Self-destructive behaviors
  • Age and Sleeping
  • Anxiety
  • Beat Jet Lag with Starvation
  • Benefits of smiling
  • Energy drinks and stereotypes
  • Evidence FOR semester exams
  • First impressions: thin slicing
  • Guantanamo - how to destroy a human
  • How we make choices
  • Identify a psychopath by his speech pattern
  • Inside a dying mind
  • Mental Health for Teens
  • Motivation of a Terrorist
  • Parenting style leads to anxiety disorder in kids
  • Personality Disorders Info
  • Positive Psychology: The Good Life
  • Psychology of Marketing
  • Psychopaths take their coffee 'black'
  • Return policy and the effect on consumers
  • Stress becoming an epidemic
  • Talking to Babies
  • The Caffeine-Alcohol Effect
  • The Psychopath Next Door
  • The Value of Daily Rituals
  • The psychology of hate
  • The psychology of swearing
  • The psychology of terrorism
  • Us vs Them: The power of words and Trump
  • What does it feel like to die?
  • Why We Fear Haunted Houses
  • Why jerks at work get ahead
  • Why research can't be trusted
  • Why we forget our dreams

Psychology Resources

  • David and Goliath - audio book
  • Tipping Point - audio book
  • Outliers - audio book
  • Extended Essay: Psych Guide
  • Mind Hacks
  • The Psychologist
  • Lots of studies
  • NYMAG: Science of US
  • Psychiatric Times

Psychology Documentary Websites

  • Doc Heaven
  • Doc Addict
  • Top Doc Films
  • Doc Storm

ADDICTION

  • Deep brain stimulation as treatment

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Sociocultural Perspective

  • 6x9: Solitary confinement
  • Barry Manilow T-Shirt Study
  • Bulgaria's Abandoned Children
  • Childhood stress and Adult illness
  • Childhood's influence on adulthood
  • Cialdini’s Principles of Social Influence
  • Compliance techniques
  • Conformity - Asch
  • Conformity - Gender and Culture
  • Culture in Psych - Article
  • Culture's Effects on the Brain
  • Effects of poverty
  • Formal Wear and Perception
  • HATE
  • How Being Poor Makes You Sick
  • How movies make men - TED
  • Implicit Association Test [IAT]
  • Like buttons - how they influence us
  • Luck and Success
  • Milgram interview
  • Milgram revisited
  • Natascha Kampusch: 3096 days in captivity
  • Persuasion/Compliance Articles
  • Philip Zimbardo: The Lucifer Effect - TED
  • Podcast: Cialdini - Psych of persuasion
  • Poverty and Overeating
  • Prejudice and Discrimination
  • Racial stereotypes and clothing
  • Racial versus gender stereotypes
  • Racism and Culture
  • Racism: effects on a Black man's life
  • Rosenthal & Jacobson 1966
  • Science of persuasion - short video
  • Screen time and mental disorders in children
  • Sensory Deprivation (video 48')
  • Social Influence
  • Social Influence: Commitment and Consistency (Video)
  • Society's Influence: The Pygmalion Effect
  • Solitary confinement - stories
  • Solitary confinement and your mind
  • Stanford Prison Exp website
  • Stanford Prison Experiment - Video
  • Teenage brain on social media
  • The Lucifer Effect - full text
  • The psychological cost of boring buildings
  • The Romanian babies grown up
  • Why lonely people stay lonely
  • Women, Brilliance and Stereotypes
  • Zimbardo, Milgram and Abu Ghraib

Cognitive Perspective

  • 1st borns are smarter?
  • 7 thoughts that are bad for you
  • Anxiety and Genius
  • Attention and Personal Technology
  • Autism
  • Awareness Test
  • Awareness Tests
  • Can your brain be full?
  • Cell phone addiction is changing your brain (and not for the better...)
  • Choice increases compliance
  • Cognitive Dissonance Article
  • Cognitive Immunization
  • Compliance and false admission of guilt
  • Confidence and body language
  • Confident Idiots (article)
  • Dweck: The power of believing you can improve
  • Emotional Restraint
  • Emotional Snap Judgments Are Often Wrong
  • Eyewitness Testimony: Tversky
  • False Memories
  • False Memory and therapy - article
  • Fear and Faith Placebo
  • Fear and learning
  • Fear of Dying and Our Behavior
  • Fear of spiders makes them look larger (podcast)
  • First impressions: Top 2 Factors
  • How does a musician's brain work?
  • How sleep deprivation makes life tougher
  • How to raise a genius
  • Hypochondriacs are more likely to get sick
  • IAT-How to overcome unconscious bias
  • IAT-Implicit Association Test
  • Insomnia that kills
  • Is pain a mental construct
  • Mastering Attention to Transform Experience: Video
  • Mind-Body link
  • Mindfulness and Decision Making
  • Mozart Sonata K448
  • Multitasking or Not?
  • Optical Illusions
  • Perception and overconfidence
  • Placebo - expectations matter
  • Placebos - article
  • Profound Face Blindness
  • Remembering a murder you didn't commit
  • Stress and Emotion/Memory
  • Stress on the job
  • Stress: Portrait of a Killer
  • Stroop Effect Interactive
  • Superior Autobiographical (False ) Memory
  • Tactile-emotional synesthesia
  • The Bunny Effect
  • The color red
  • The Human Mind - Is intuition really schema? (36th min)
  • The Mozart Effect
  • The power of collective memory
  • The power of expectations
  • Was Van Gogh a Synesthete?
  • When success leads to failure
  • Why only some people have nightmares
  • Why we do stupid things
  • Why we remember the Beatles
  • Your brain on video games - TED

Animals and Psychology

  • Chickens are smart

Genetics and Evolution

  • Basics of evolution (video)
  • Emotions and Evolution
  • Evolution and Aggression in Males
  • Evolution and Altruism
  • Evolution and Attraction - physical traits
  • Evolution and embarrassment
  • Evolution and Emotion
  • Evolution and Fear
  • Evolution and Homosexuality
  • Evolution and Prejudice
  • Evolution of Aggression
  • Evolution of Attraction
  • Evolution of Worrying
  • Evolution: the mind's big bang (video)
  • Evolutionary Psychology
  • Evolutionary Psychology (video)
  • Gender differences in serial killers
  • Gene Therapy
  • Genes and sperm donors
  • Genetics and being a morning person
  • Genetics and Sleep Requirements
  • Genetics of Brain Size
  • Genetics: A Tale of Two Sisters
  • Heritability, Twins and the Environment
  • Insight from Identical Twins
  • Is intelligence inherited?
  • Is poverty genetic? (TTW) neuroplasticity and poverty
  • Jack and Oskar
  • Stress and genes
  • The value of twin studies
  • Twin research (from The Economist)
  • Twin stories
  • Twins over a lifetime
  • Twins Raised Apart
  • Why psychologists study twins

Biological LOA

  • Advanced PTSD Therapy: 60 Minutes
  • Alzheimer's and Brain Imaging
  • Alzheimer's article from CNN
  • Alzheimer's Fact Sheet
  • Alzheimer's: the role of genetics
  • Biology and Racism?
  • Brain chemistry and happiness
  • Brain damage and memory loss
  • Brain Damage in Sports
  • Brain Injury and Sport
  • Brain Lateralization: Severed Corpus Callosum (Gazaniga)
  • Brains have owners
  • Brains: male vs female
  • Broca, Tan and Lelo
  • Build a happier brain
  • Can trauma be inherited?
  • Cats, Dogs and Oxytocin
  • Childhood Stress
  • Creative brains are different
  • Creativity Boost from Electroshock
  • Dopamine and Disappointment
  • fMRI - the problems with this technology
  • fMRI and brain age
  • H.M.
  • H.M.'s brain postmortem
  • Hand writing and learning
  • HM - What happens when you remove your hippocampus?
  • How hormones help us sleep
  • Living With Alzheimer's
  • Love and hormones
  • Meditation can change your brain: Harvard study
  • Music and the Brain
  • Neurology of Pregnancy
  • Neuroplasticity and Meditation
  • Neuroplasticity and Music
  • Neuroplasticity: Buddha's Brain
  • Neuroplasticity: CBT and brain volume
  • Neuroplasticity: London Cabbies article
  • Neuroplasticity: London Cabbies video
  • Neuroplasticity: Romanian Orphanages
  • Neuroscience and Free Will
  • Neurotransmitters
  • Neurotransmitters and their functions
  • Origin of Laughter and Smiles
  • Orphans of Romania - UPDATE 2014
  • Oxytocin and animals
  • Pain and the brain
  • Personal Space and the Brain
  • Phineas Gage
  • Placebo and the Brain
  • Politics and the amygdala
  • Pollution and Brain Disease
  • Psychopathy, Altruism and the Amygdala
  • PTSD and floating
  • PTSD and the hippocampus (article)
  • PTSD: symptoms and causes
  • REM sleep
  • SatNav or memory - effects on the brain
  • SatNav switches off part of the brain
  • Sense of humor and brain hemispheres
  • Sex diffs in the brain
  • Sleep's affect on the brain
  • Stress damages immune system
  • Teenage Brain
  • The bind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see
  • The Brain From Top to Bottom
  • The chemistry of addiction (neurotransmitters)
  • The Human Mind (how your brain works - video)
  • The importance of brain plasticity
  • The Killer's Brain
  • The man who only says yes or no
  • The Secret Life of the Brain (video series)
  • The Village of Dementia
  • The War Within: PTSD
  • What Happens to a Woman's Brain When She Becomes a Mother
  • Your brain on drugs

Memory (non-video)

  • Bartlett (1932) - Explanation of study
  • Bartlett - War of the Ghosts
  • Memory - Everything About It
  • Memory Eyewitness testimony
  • Memory research (Neuroscience News)
  • Published research articles (tons of them!)
  • Science Daily Memory Pages

MEMORY VIDEOS

  • Eyewitness Testimony - part 1 (13:00)
  • Eyewitness Testimony - part 2 (13:00)
  • Loftus: TED - the fiction of memory
  • Memory Hacks
  • PTSD and the Pill
  • Superior Autobiographical Memory - part 1
  • Superior Autobiographical Memory - part 2
  • The Bunny Effect
  • The man with the 7 second brain
  • TTW: Why Do We Lie?

Emotion

  • Culture and emotion
  • Emotions and gender roles
  • How mood affects immunity
  • The affect of mood on learning
  • The longest study on happiness
  • What causes the physical feelings of emotion?

Cognition: Racism and Prejudice

  • Clothing and Stereotypes
  • Decision-making heuristics and biases across the life span
  • Implicitly biased or racist?
  • Race Does Not Exist
  • Racism linked to low IQ
  • The power of a beautiful face

Classical and Operant Conditioning

  • B.F. Skinner
  • Basics of both types of learning
  • Behaviorism
  • Classical Conditioning
  • Ivan Pavlov
  • John B. Watson and Little Albert
  • Negative Punishment
  • Negative Reinforcement
  • Operant Conditioning
  • Positive Punishment
  • Positive Reinforcement
  • Risk of harm from spanking
  • The case against punishment
  • What is punishment?
  • What is reinforcement?

Ethics

  • Animal Research - APA
  • APA guidelines for animal testing
  • Attitudes toward animal research
  • British Psych Society Ethics
  • Do animals feel love and trust?
  • Harry Harlow Experiments (video)
  • Is animal research acceptable?
  • More Harry Harlow
  • Stanford Prison Experiment Article
  • Technology and our moral compass
  • Top 10 Unethical
  • Unethical Studies

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