Current psychological research

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Science Daily - click here

The Psychologist Magazine - click here

Google Scholar - click here

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Reading List

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Introductory psychology (beginner psychology texts)

Criado-Perez - 'Invisible women' (this text links to the problems of gender bias in psychological research)

Goldacre, Ben - ‘Bad Science’

Lilienfeld, Scott - ’50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behaviour’

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Famous studies

Dittrich, Luke - ‘Patient HM’

Perry, Gina – ‘Behind the shock machine’

Rolls, Geoff - ‘Classic Case Studies in Psychology’

Sacks, Oliver - ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat’

Slater Lauren - ‘Opening of Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century’

Zimbardo, Philip - ‘The Lucifer Effect’

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Counselling psychology

Gilbert, Paul - ‘The compassionate mind’

Kabat-Zinn, John – ‘Wherever you go there you are’

Van der Kolk, Bessel - 'The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma'

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Biological psychology

Dawkins, Richard – ‘The Selfish Gene’

Harari, Yuval Noah – ‘Sapiens’

Hrdy - 'Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding'

Ridley - 'Nature via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human'

Walker, Matthew – ‘Why we Sleep’

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​​​​Cognitive psychology

Kahneman, Daniel - ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’

Pink, Daniel – ‘Drive’

Thaler, Richard – ‘Nudge’

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Forensic psychology

Britton, Paul - 'The Jigsaw Man'
Canter, David - 'Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction'
Canter, David - 'Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer'

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From Oxbridge suggested reading lists

Bentall & Beck - 'Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature'

Bullmore - 'The inflamed mind'

Dennett - 'Consciousness Explained'

Greenfield - 'The Private Life of the Brain'

Ramachandran & Blakeslee - 'Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind'​