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Useful Links

Useful links, Interesting Reads, Films and Podcasts

Websites:

https://www.eduqas.co.uk/home/student-support/

https://www.simplypsychology.org/

https://www.tutor2u.net/psychology

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008cy1j

 

TED Talks:

https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_jayne_blakemore_the_mysterious_workings_of_the_adolescent_brain

https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_the_psychology_of_evil

https://www.ted.com/talks/eleanor_longden_the_voices_in_my_head?language=en

https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_the_new_era_of_positive_psychology

 

Books:

  • Opening Skinners Box - Lauren Slater
  • Classic Case Studies in Psychology - Geoff Rolls
  • Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments - Alex Boese
  • The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
  • Behind the Shock Machine - Gina Perry
  • The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people turn evil - Philip Zimbardo
  • The Anatomy of Violence - Adrian Raine
  • The Sports Gene - David Epstein
  • Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm than Good - James Davies
  • Frazzled - Ruby Wax
  • The Happy Brain - Dean Burnett

 

Films

  • The Experimenter (Milgram)
  • The Stanford Prison Experiment
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • We need to Talk About Kevin
  • Good Will Hunting
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Shutter Island
  • Side Effects
  • As Good as It Gets
  • Babies

 

Podcasts

  • Science in Sport Podcast
  • The Science of Evil - BBC Sounds
  • All in the Mind - Radio 4 – BBC
  • Hidden brain
  • The Positive Psychology Podcast – Bringing the Science Of Happiness To Your Earbuds