Introducing Research Methods: 3 New Films
August 15, 2025
This new 3-part series of films is designed to introduce A-level / High School students to research methods in a way that explains their importance
This new 3-part series of films is designed to introduce A-level / High School students to research methods in a way that explains their importance
This classic series of short – around 30-minute – psychology films narrated by Philip Zimbardo and aimed at an Introductory College / High School audience
It’s probably fair to say that Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) has, particularly over the last few years, attracted a great deal of critical
The Stanford Prison Experiment, arguably one of the most controversial experiments of the 20th century, has polarised opinions for over 50 years: To its supporters,
The first part of this post provided some background to Mischel et al’s (1990) Marshmallow Test and started to question the idea it could be
Although the concepts of immediate and delayed gratification have been widely used in both psychology and sociology for over 50+ years, perhaps their most well-known
In which Ben Ambridge takes 15 minutes out of his very busy life (probably. I’m speculating. I don’t actually know. He might just have had
I always found teaching “the experimental method” in sociology a little dull because there were relatively few examples I could use to illustrate the genre.
Someone whose name escapes me once said: “We do not remember days, we remember moments”. And that’s the thing about memory. It doesn’t really work
A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete