tutor2u Psychology Network Meetings
The tutor2u Psychology Team is now supporting Psychology Network Meetings taking place at schools across the country. The Psychology Team are committed to providing advice, guidance and support,...
Announcing the A-Level Psychology Teacher Café
The tutor2u Psychology Team are pleased to announce the ‘Psychology Teacher Café’, a new series of informal online meetings that provide you with an opportunity to discuss those everyday burning...
STEM Starter: Relationship Breakdown
This week's STEM Starter describes a painful divorce between Brad and Angelina and the helpful advice of Clooney.
STEM Starter: Explanations of Attachment
This week's STEM Starter describes the relationship baby George has with his mother Kate and father William.
Free Resource: Creating Evaluation Burgers in The Classroom
Teaching evaluation is important. However, coming up with a range of different strategies to teach students how to evaluate can be difficult.
Exercise: Love It Or Hate It?
Do you truly enjoy exercise? If you were given a choice between an hour in the gym or a meal with a friend, which would you choose?
Who Looks After the President’s Mental Health?
Who looks after the President’s mental health? That’s the question posed by Dr John Grohol in an entry on PsychCentral.
Number Of Teachers Signed Off With Stress Hits All-Time High
An article in the Sunday Post revealed that more than 60,000 days were lost in 2015-2016, as nearly 2,00 teachers were signed off work because of stress, anxiety of depression.
Ex-World Champion Boxer Ricky Hatton, who won the world light-weight and welterweight titles, describes his battle with depression and his attempted suicide, in a new video on the BBC.
Why Children Need Their Mothers
Marriage and Family Expert, Amos Alumanda, highlights the importance of attachment in an article reported in StandardDigtial.
According to Alumanda: “Being a parent, be definition, is...
An Interactive Atlas of The Brain
The Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation (FINR) is a brain injury rehabilitation centre for children and adults. The FINR website contains a wealth of interesting information...
Psychology Weekly Update
The first week of 2017 was a busy week for the tutor2u Psychology Team. Just in case you missed anything, here is a quick overview of the highlights.
The Undoing Project
I've just finished reading The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. It is the story of the collaboration between Avos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman which ultimately lead to the emergence of prospect...
New Findings Show Dopamine’s Complex Role in Schizophrenia
If you’re studying the Year 2 Topic Schizophrenia, you will have encountered the Dopamine Hypothesis. A recent article in the Journal of Biological Psychiatry reviews seven articles examining...
Living Near Heavy Traffic Increases Dementia Risk
An environmental (sociocultural) explanation for dementia has been proposed by the authors of a Canadian study, as reported in The Guardian Newspaper this week. The researchers tracked 6.6M...
4 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health in 2017
While most New Year’s Resolutions focus on physical wellbeing, a recent article highlights the importance of looking after our mental wellbeing. A recent article on NetDoctor by Psychologist Dr...
Videos on Behavioural Economics
Psychology teachers might be interested to know that we have just uploaded a new series of 11 short revision videos covering a range of key concepts in Behavioural Economics.
The Birth of Psychology. Was It Wundt?
This Week published an interesting article called ‘The Birth of Psychology’. The article describes Thomas Willis, a 17th Century Oxford Professor, who published The Anatomy of the Brain in 1664,...
The Psychology of New Year’s Resolutions
Did you make a New Year’s resolution? If so, you’re not alone, as around 50 percent of people do. Interestingly, according to Margot Underwood, Associate Professor of Psychology at Joliet Junior...
Detecting Misinformation Can Actually Improve Memory
A-Level students are well-rehearsed when it comes to the effects of ‘misleading information’ on the accuracy of EWT. However, recent research suggests that misinformation can actually boost...