Posted by Emily W in Psychology on July 27, 2015
A few weeks ago I found this article on The New Yorker about Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment and whether or not we have actually learned something from it. For those of you who don’t know, Zimbardo was a psychologist from Stanford University, CA and in 1971 he ran an experiment in which 24, mentally and […]
Posted in Reseach | Tagged aggression, authority, interesting study, milgram, Obedience, psychology, social psychology, social science, Zimbardo
Posted by Alice in Psychology on February 24, 2015
Speaking of relaxing a little bit, I forgot to mention that we had a small social the other week with the Volleyball Society! This is a busy time for everyone at uni, but we managed to find an afternoon that worked for a small group of people and went out to play…laser tag! 😀 It was […]
Posted in Friends, Leisure, Societies, Sport | Tagged aggression, laser tag, volleyball
Posted by Alice in Psychology on May 19, 2014
So, tomorrow I have my first exam, and I’m definitely getting anxious about it. But I always do, so it’s not really a surprise. To deal with exam stress, I started going to boxing classes at the Danielle Brown Sports Centre on campus last week. They’re completely free, I just had to fill in a […]
Posted in Exams, Health, Sport, Stress, Studying, Uncategorized | Tagged aggression, boxing, catharsis hypothesis, Danielle Brown Sports Centre, exams, free boxing lessons |
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