Mmmmm . . . chocolate and mood

So many people love eating chocolate, and believe it is a mood-influencing food giving pleasure plus a lift in mood – a happyfood! Now research suggests that many depressed people really do eat more chocolate. These findings came from both men and women who scored high on a psychometric depression scale but who were not […]

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Meat for sex

Meat was an important source of nutrition for ancestral humans (as it is today, MacDonalds aside). It has been suggested that the importance of meat meant that men often traded it for other favours such as forging allegiances or for sex  (Stanford, 1999 – see pages 101, 130 and 131 of our A2 Complete Companion). […]

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Missed opportunity

One thing that concerns me somewhat about the new AS specification is that the opportunity has been lost to include some evolutionary psychology. The A2 still retains this increasingly popular psychological area, indeed could be said to be encouraging teachers not familiar with it to include it in their teaching as it cuts across so […]

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