How Chess Helps You Academically
Chess is not a game that sounds appealing to everybody, however it may be worth trying to help enhance your academic ability. Professor Fernand Gobet (UoL) and doctoral student Giovanni…
Research
The Voice In Our Heads
Perhaps you have never noticed or even heard it but the majority of us experience a ‘running-commentary-like’ voice within our heads. Vilhauer (2016) says that this Inner Reading Voice (IRV)…
Drunk Personalities
As psychology students we have all learnt, or at least have some knowledge that there are different personality types. However, you have probably not heard of the different types of…
Pets And Partners
Pets are very important to us humans, the majority of them live within our homes as part of our families. They are that important to us that they can determine…
Not The Project You Want: Don’t Panic
When you start your Psychology degree your third year project seems to be so far away that you do not really give it much thought until mid-way through second year…
Useful Scales For Psychology Research
We have put together a document of psychological scales that we think are useful to use!
A New Glimpse Into Working Memory
When you hold in mind a sentence you have just read or a phone number you’re about to dial, you’re engaging a critical brain system known as working memory. For the past several…
Choosing The Topic
South Africa with LiverpoolOnline In my experience, to find a dissertation topic that was novel and original, of interest and relevant was not without challenges and frustrations. My first attempt was grandiose…
The Brain May Show Signs Of Ageing Earlier Than Old Age
A new study published in Physiological Genomics suggests that the brain shows signs of aging earlier than old age. The study found that the microglia cells—the immune cells of the brain—in middle-aged mice already…
Ageing Warps Our Perception Of Time
Much like trying to watch a video with the audio out of synch, older adults may have difficulty combining the stimuli they see and hear, and it could have implications…