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📖 Time Warped: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Time Perception
Claudia Hammond Non-fiction Difficulty level: easy Claudia Hammond’s Time Warped: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Time Perception is a non-fiction book that explores how humans perceive time and our relationship with it. This book covers a wide variety of topics about time, from discussing a number of varying factors that can effect our perception of time […]
📖 ‘Every Last Word’
Tamara Ireland Stone Fiction – Young Adult Difficulty Level – Moderate TW: OCD, Depression, Suicide, Self-harm mentions, Ableism I read ‘Every Last Word’ nearly a year ago, but it’s the sort of book that sticks with you forever. Not only does it discuss mental health conditions in a very respectful way, but this book is […]
The Psychology of New Year’s resolutions
New year’s resolutions are far from a modern day invention, with them dating back to the 5th centuary when Romans would make resolutions of good conduct to the gods. Now, around half of all adults make new year’s resolutions, but fewer than 10% manage to keep them for more than a few months, with 80% […]
The Criminal’s Biology
As dooming and pessimistic as it is, crime is an inevitable and ongoing constant in most societies, the causes of which are fairly complex. Whilst we aren’t here to analyse why crime exists and the very philosophy of it, we can very well look at the psychology of criminals, and at theories that may explain […]
📖 ‘The Astonishing Colour of After’
Emily X.R. Pan Fiction – Young Adult Difficulty Level – Moderate TW: Suicide, Depression, Self-harm mentions, Racism If there was one book that I could ever recommend to another person, it would be ‘The Astonishing Colour of After’ by Emily X.R. Pan. When looking towards mental health representation and attempting to understand it in a […]
📺What Makes a Murderer
Channel 4 Documentary Difficulty level: moderate This riveting TV series follows three convicted murderers through 3 hour long episodes to determine whether they truly had control over their actions, or whether hidden factors meant they couldn’t avoid their crime. It is lead by forensic psychologist Dr Vicky Thakordas-Desai and neurocriminologist Professor Adrian Raine. Thakordas-Desai investigates […]
Therapy dogs: the future of health treatment?
Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT, also referred to as Pet Therapy) is an up and coming new treatment method which has excited both psychologists and doctors around the world. To give a definition, it is the guided interaction between a person and a trained animal through a formal, structured set of sessions. This is similar to Animal-Assisted […]
Nature vs Nurture
If you had to narrow down all aspects of who you are to a single reason, would you argue that the components of your persona are innate, or that they were moulded by society? Has your biological makeup influenced the characteristics that set you apart from others, or is the way you’ve grown in society […]