Kitty Genovese: what you think you know about what happened to her is wrong. While the story lead to a long and successful line of research in bystander intervention, what people think they know about Kitty Genovese is largely incorrect.
Archive for November, 2007
Episode 35: The Psychology of Extreme Sports
Why do people engage in those dangerous sports like hang gliding, bungee jumping and rock climbing? Would you believe it might have something to do with neurotransmitters and something called Monoamine Oxidase?
Episode 34: Timeout Revisited – Dealing with Challenging Kids Part 2
Here’s the second part of my episode on alternatives to timeout. In this part of the interview, Dr. Ablon discusses Plan B in more detail. How do you work with your child to come up with solutions that satisfy both your and his or her needs?
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- Episode 72 (video): Memorize the Parts of the Brain
- Episode 68: Mnemonic Device for Erikson's Eight Stages of Development
- Episode 27: From Insane Asylum to Psychiatric Center: A Brief History
- Episode 47: The Little Albert Study: What You Know is...Mostly Wrong
- Episode 31: Lemon Slices and a New Face on Mars! Gestalt Principles at Work
- Episode 90: The Learning Styles Myth: An Interview with Daniel Willingham
- Episode 115 (Video): Violent Video Games - What Does the Research Say?
- Episode 45: Basic Research Design - Part 1
- Episode 113: Interview with Scott Lilienfeld on the 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology
- Episode 12: The Necessity of the Frame in Psychotherapy
- Social Psychology (42)
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- Learning/Memory (27)
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- Cognition, Intelligence and Language (21)
- Biopsychology (18)
- Teaching Tools (17)
- Critical Thinking (15)
- Motivation (13)
- Gender/Sexuality (13)
- Emotion (11)
- History of Psychology (9)
- Personality (8)
- I/O Psychology (7)
- Disorders (5)
- Perception (4)
- Ethics (3)
- Testing (1)
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