A strange, sceptical history of psychology’s flirtation with telepathy, precognition, dream transmission, reincarnation, and other paranormal claims, from J. B. Rhine’s ESP cards to Daryl Bem’s “feeling the future” experiments.

Social facilitation explains why the presence of other people can improve performance, ruin it, or make us suddenly aware of our own hands.

This article aims to delve into Lazarus' study, summarizing its key concepts, research methods, findings, and the implications for our understanding of emotions.

Explore Gordon Allport’s The Nature of Prejudice (1954)—a landmark book on prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes, and intergroup relations. Learn how his Contact Hypothesis and psychological insights continue to shape social psychology today.

Why some people seem to have names that fit their jobs, how implicit egotism may influence life choices, and why the evidence is more complicated than the examples make it look.

Attachment theory explained: Bowlby, Ainsworth, the Strange Situation, secure attachment, anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, disorganised attachment, and how early bonds can shape later relationships without determining them.

Isaac Prilleltensky’s values, assumptions, and practices framework explained: why psychology is never neutral, how power shapes psychological theory, and why ethical practice must look beyond the individual.

Explore Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory in this detailed guide. Learn about key concepts like observational learning, modelling, and self-efficacy, and discover how the theory has shaped psychology, education, healthcare, and more.

The marshmallow test explained: what Walter Mischel’s delayed gratification studies really showed, why the popular willpower story went too far, and how later research changed the way psychologists understand self-control.

Top tools for psychology students: APA citation generators, study apps, podcasts, and free research resources to simplify essays, lab reports, and theses.

Learn how to capitalise titles in APA 7, including title case vs sentence case, with clear examples for title pages, headings, reference lists, tables, figures, and source titles in text.

Learn how to write a psychology hypothesis with clear examples of directional, non-directional, and null hypotheses. A practical guide for psychology students writing research questions, hypotheses, and study predictions.

Learn how to choose a sampling method in psychology with simple explanations of simple random, convenience, purposive, stratified, cluster, and snowball sampling, plus examples and assignment-ready guidance.

Learn how to cut word count in a psychology essay without losing clarity, structure, or academic quality. Practical advice for trimming waffle, repetition, and bloated phrasing.

Learn how effect size, statistical power, and sample size fit together in psychology. Understand what changes your required sample, why small effects need bigger studies, and how to plan more sensible research.

Learn how to interpret means and standard deviations in psychology, compare group descriptives carefully, and report descriptive statistics in APA style without overstating what the numbers show.

Why do some psychology essays get higher marks despite saying similar things? A guide to essay style, readability, marker psychology, and writing with life in the age of AI.

A clear explainer of Marcia’s identity statuses, from diffusion and foreclosure to moratorium and achievement, and how identity forms.

Was Bandura’s 1961 Bobo Doll study actually about aggression, or just toddler obedience? We deconstructs the methodology and ethics of social psychology's most famous inflatable clown.

A critical explainer on prejudice reduction and the Contact Hypothesis, exploring Allport, modern evidence, major critiques, negative contact, and why contact alone cannot solve structural inequality.