As Psychology Subject Officer for WJEC Eduqas, an important part of my role is to support the teachers who are teaching my specifications. I do this in a variety of ways: offering face-to-face CPD; answering emails and phone calls; developing resources for the classroom etc. However, a British Psychological Society (BPS) survey of psychology teachers, […]
Read moreThanks to a group of researchers in Norway, people can now measure the severity of their Facebook addiction using the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale (BFAS). It is thought to be the first time psychologists have formally recognised social media dependency as a real addiction, and the scale is the first of its kind in world. […]
Read more“Misery Has More Company Than People Think,” a paper in the January issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, draws on a series of studies examining how college students evaluate moods, both their own and those of their peers. Led by Alex Jordan, who at the time was a Ph.D. student in Stanford’s psychology department, the researchers […]
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