By tim, on May 9th, 2013 at 12:23 pm I’m currently working my way through Alex Haslam’s book Psychology in Organizations – The Social Identity Approach. One of the more intriguing pieces of research it presents is on the impact of systematic and random leader selection on group performance.
A study conducted by Haslam and others(*) came to the conclusion that if a group has a specific goal to achieve and you want to maintain or strengthen that group, you’re better off choosing your leader at random – provided that the group already has a salient social identity and actually wishes to achieve the goal set.
Paradoxically however, leaders . . . → Read More: Don’t bother with selections or elections – the best leaders are picked randomly
By tim, on April 14th, 2013 at 7:51 pm At the time of the August 2011 riots I was on holiday in Cyprus. By the time I came home, they were over. As I had far better things to think about at the time (or rather, not think about), I didn’t really pay very much attention to them. I do remember hearing Tottenham MP David Lammy condemning the rioters as “mindless people”, David Cameron stating that it was “criminality pure and simple” and Ed Miliband asking him if he was being tough enough on those involved.
However, as I was a thoughtful student of social psychology at the time, . . . → Read More: How to start a riot
By tim, on April 2nd, 2013 at 1:39 pm If anyone can explain why liking the Qualitative Methods in Psychology page on Facebook results in this particular set of suggested pages, then I’m all ears!
By tim, on February 21st, 2013 at 8:30 pm … isn’t Q methodology even mentioned in the OU Psychology degree, let alone taught? I’m currently making my way through the 3rd chapter of Simon Watts and Paul Stenner’s 2012 book “Doing Q Methodological Research – Theory, Method and Interpretation“.
Anyone who is trying to find the “missing link” between quantitative and qualitative psychological research will find this interesting. Chapter 2 of the book makes connections between Q and the work of James (introspection and stream of consciousness), behaviourism, constructivism, social constructionism, discourse analysis and … quantum physics!
Once I get to the end of the book I may well . . . → Read More: Why oh why …
By tim, on December 28th, 2012 at 2:26 pm This is a rather long post (nearly 1,800 words) and I’m fully aware that it will break (by some margin) the tl;dr(*) threshold of many people! But I’ve written it for me, primarily to remind me of some of the material that I suspect may come in useful if I ever do take up my deferred place on Leicester University’s occupational psychology MSc.
A few weeks ago, I’d put together half a blog post on the topic of personality but had left it unfinished, gathering dust in my WordPress “drafts” folder. What finally prompted me into finishing it was a . . . → Read More: Does measuring personality make sense?
By tim, on October 24th, 2012 at 8:24 pm Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are currently offering:
Unpaid … ten high quality internships in 2012-13 … for a commitment to volunteer with us for 3-12 months, depending on the specific requirements of each role, for a minimum of 15 hours per week.
If ever the government needed to make progress on its social mobility strategy it’s now. Apparent abuses of the minimum wage legislation (like this one appears to be) mean that unless you have the money to subsidise an employer, then it becomes almost impossible to get a first step onto a (highly competitive and not hugely well . . . → Read More: Unpaid Internships at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
By tim, on September 10th, 2012 at 9:24 pm Over the last few days, there’s been a steady increase in the number of people visiting my Open University ED209, DD303 and DD307 notes pages. It’s revision time, isn’t it? I knew there was something missing from my life this year!
Anyway, as I’ve been asked a few times about how I approached revision when I was studying for my psychology degree, I thought I’d collect all of my thoughts in this handy blog post. You may do it differently – and that’s ok as the first tip for revision I have is to make sure you do some – . . . → Read More: It must be OU revision time again
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