Gender Inequality In Academia
A few weeks ago, Channel 4’s interview with Jordan Peterson went viral, receiving over 4 million views in just one week. If you haven’t already watched it, you can watch…
Experiment
Prof Peter Kinderman Takes Chlorpromazine
Since early childhood, I have lived with people who take powerful psychiatric medication and for many years in my professional life as a clinical psychologist I have worked with people…
Deferred Gratification: An Indicator Of Future Success
The 1972 Marshmallow Experiment; You may think this experiment sounds familiar, and that’s probably because they use a similar idea on one of the Haribo adverts… Children between the ages…
Stop And Hear The Music
On Friday 12th January, 2007, Joshua Bell – a world famous violinist, scheduled to play at a sold out concert in Boston that night, played 6 classical pieces on a…
Becoming A Participant
For those of you who are psychology students at the University of Liverpool, you will be aware of the EPR scheme. For those of you who aren’t, or for those…
Genie: A Psychological Case Study
Genie (born in 1957, California) was the victim of severe child abuse, neglect and social isolation. She was discovered by the authorities in 1970 (aged 13) – up until then,…