The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why we think we know more than we do
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias that can lead people to think they are better than they are.
Month: July 2020
The Yale Food Addiction Scale: Are you addicted to food?
The Yale Food Addiction Scale is the only psychological self-report measure for determining whether someone may have a food addiction.
Addicted to Pepsi Max? Understand addiction in six minutes (video)
Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias for seeing the function of something as “fixed” on whatever the traditional use for that object is.
Functional Fixedness: The cognitive bias and how to beat it
Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias for seeing the function of something as “fixed” on whatever the traditional use for that object is.
Summer Spending Spree! How Summer Burns A Hole In Your Pocket
Research conducted in Israel shows that the temperature is directly related to the number of purchases made on a popular Israeli e-commerce site.
Psychology Textbooks for University
If you’ve just left school and are heading off to university after the Summer, then you’ll probably be thinking about which are the best psychology […]
Emotions for Hire – The Emotion Economy
About a third of the UK workforce works in a customer service role. Up to three quarters of us service customers in one way or […]
Book Review: Places of the Heart by Colin Ellard
You know a book was worth reading when you finish with four pages stuffed full of notes. That was exactly the case for me when […]
The History of Psychology – From Wundt to Today
Psychology is roughly 200 years old, and even though some of the questions that psychologists ask are way older than that, the science of psychology is relatively young.