The Mind in 1500 Words

Today we look at evidence that people suffering major depressive disorder are more likely to create certain false memories.

Joormann, Teachman, & Gotlib, (2009). Sadder and less accurate? False memory for negative material in depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118(2), 412–417.

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This episode ties into first year psychology content on psychopathology

Textbooks say that telling people about how tanning makes them less attractive reduces tanning and associated risks. Are they right?

Jones & Leary (1994). Effects of appearance-based admonitions against sun exposure on tanning intentions in young adults. Health Psychology, 13, 86–90.

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This episode ties into first year psychology content on health psychology.

Does awareness of oneself as a distinct entity tend to come with awareness of others as other people?

Asendorpf & Baudonnière (1993). Self-awareness and other-awareness: Mirror self-recognition and synchronic imitation among unfamiliar peers. Developmental Psychology, 29(1), 88-95

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This episode ties into first year psychology content on social development

Textbooks claim: “preschoolers do not recognise the importance of ‘inner speech’ — using words inside one’s head — while performing tasks such as mental arithmetic." Should we believe them?

Flavell, Green, Flavell, & Grossman, (1997). The development of children’s knowledge about inner speech. Child Development, 68(1), 39–47.

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This episode ties into first year psychology content on cognitive development

Sorry about the recording quality, I'm too sick to fix it now.

Back, M. D., Stopfer, J. M., Vazire, S., Gaddis, S., Schmukle, S. C., Egloff, B., & Gosling, S. D. (2010). Facebook profiles reflect actual personality, not self-idealization. Psychological Science, 21(3), 372–374.

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This episode ties into first year psychology content on personality

Does just looking at Barbie make girls feel they aren't skinny enough?

Emme the doll: https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=Emme+doll

Dittmar, Halliwell, & Ive.  (2006). Does Barbie make girls want to be thin? The effect of experimental exposure to images of dolls on the body image of 5- to 8 year-old girls. Developmental Psychology 42(2), 283–292.

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This episode ties into first year psychology content on motivation and emotion 

Nosek et al (2009). National differences in gender–science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement. PNAS, 106(26), 10593–10597

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This episode ties into first year psychology content on intelligence 

Can dolphins recognise themselves in mirrors? 

Riess and Marino (2001) Mirror self-recognition in the bottlenose dolphin: A case of cognitive convergence. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 98, 5937-5942.

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This episode ties into first year psychology content on cognition and language

Loftus and Zanni (1975) Eyewitness testimony: The influence of the wording of a question. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 5: 86-88  

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This episode ties into first year psychology content on memory

A discussion of learning focused on 

Mallan, Sax, & Lipp (2009). Verbal instruction abolishes fear conditioned to racial out-group faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1303–1307

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This episode ties into first year psychology content on learning