Interviewer Effect on Children’s Answers

Here is an excerpt from the BPS blog on interviewing children and how the interviewer’s behaviors can profoundly impact the child’s answers:Eighty-six children, aged 8 to 10, took part in a ten minute lesson on how the vocal chords work, before being...

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Here is an excerpt from Mind Hacks on the rise and fall of the incidence of Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). This excerpt discusses John Kihlstrom’s ­2005 review article on dissociative disorders:Dissociative Identity...

Free Advice vs. Advice that is Paid For

An excerpt from the BPS Blog:Francesca Gino at Carnegie Mellon University, whose new study shows that we’re more likely to use advice we’ve paid for than advice that’s free, even if there’s no difference in quality between the two...

Non-Clinical Community Samples

An excerpt from BPS Reasearch Digest Blog:The tactic used by most researchers is to recruit from the wider community, for example by advertising in the local paper. But Thurston’s team argue a large proportion of the general community actually have their own...

The Secret

An excerpt from the “How of Happiness” Blog regarding the book, the Secret:…the law of attraction [which argues that you can manifest or attract whatever your heart desires, from Prada bags to husbands] sounds ridiculous. But it works! It has truly,...