The Psychology of Desire reveals how to achieve any New Year’s Resolution Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham Did Oscar Wilde give the best psychological advice on New Year’s Resolutions? These usually involve redoubled, yet fruitless, efforts to resist the temptation you succumbed to last year, so in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (1891), Wilde […]
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Inside the Mind of a Mass Killer Raj Persaud and Ramon Spaaij As North America and the rest of the world try to answer the question ‘why’ when it comes to the murder of innocent school children, current psychiatric research uncovers patterns to apparently random and motiveless ‘mass’ killings, which might reveal clues […]
The Hospital Hoax – what does it really reveal about us? Raj Persaud and Nicholas Morris There are several aspects of this tragedy involving a hoax phone call to a hospital where a sick member of the Royal family was admitted, which are a damning commentary on modern life. In our […]
If Morning Sickness is associated with fewer miscarriages and higher IQ babies – should it be treated? Dr Raj Persaud and Dr Nicholas Morris The many myths surrounding morning sickness are being wheeled out yet again, given the news that a Royal is suffering from it. First of all ‘morning sickness’ is misnamed […]
Can a four year old recall her family’s murderers? Alpine executions and psychology of childhood Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham Four year old Zeena, the younger sister in the Alpine ‘family feud’ execution killings, is reported to be currently in a psychiatric hospital. She endured eight hours cowering under the bodies of her parents and […]
Athlete or Sex Symbol? What effect is Olympic exposure having on women at home and on camera? Dr Raj Persaud and Dr Kathleen Martin Ginis One recent survey found female sports featured in just 1.6% of sport coverage in the USA on nightly TV news, and this proportion has been dropping lower in recent years. […]
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