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...research and practice This module examines how psychology research fosters understanding and helps to solve real-world problems in the home, the workplace and society. The wide range of topics from cognitive, social, counselling and forensic psychology includes leadership and distracted driving, motherhood and monogamy, psychotherapy and counselling, and policing and...

...centre' in his brain doesn't readily listen to his 'reasoning' brain. In a previous the programme on fear with the BBC, I looked at my fear of heights, where my body's reaction to the experience leads to feelings of fearfulness and panic. Is it my gut feeling, and the sense of hair standing on end at the back of my neck that makes me feel afraid? I'm not sure that we will...

...research evidence that exists demonstrates that, for a healthy woman with a normal pregnancy, a planned home birth is as safe as a hospital birth (BirthChoiceUK, 2005). In spite of this research evidence, not everybody agrees, and many health care professionals insist on claiming that a medicalised hospital birth is still the safest option. Defensive medicine There has...

...research which, in turn, informed the autism diagnostic criteria and assessment tools. Many of those were based on a presentation of autism that is more common in boys and men, and simplistic stereotypes about what it means to be autistic (e.g., someone who is direct, interested in science, trains and machines, and prefers to be by themselves). This meant that autistic...