Psychology Films

Over 30 years of educational research has shown that metacognition – an awareness of how we think – helps students take more control over their

In this film, Profess or Elizabeth Loftus explains how her ‘lost in the mall’ technique demonstrated the creation of false memories. The ‘memory war’ that followed not only threatened her professional reputation but also her life.

Generations of students have been taught that Milgram’s famous obedience experiments demonstrated how easily ordinary people can be persuaded to harm others when instructed to

The controversies surrounding abortion involve a clash between two fundamental rights: the right of the unborn child, or foetus, and the rights of the mother.

This haunting film provides a brilliant summary of one of the most infamous experiments ever conducted in psychology, looking at its origins, methods, quite extraordinary

Attachment: Three short films looking at different aspects of attachment and child development: Bowlby: Attachment and Maternal Deprivation  In the 1930s a young psychiatrist noticed

Sleep: Four short films that examine different aspects of the psychology of sleep: 1.Why Do We Sleep?  We’ll spend about a third of our lives

In these 6 short films, UK psychology teacher and examiner Deb Gajic walks students through a range of classic psychological tests, showing them step-by-step how

How to Calculate: Experienced Psychology teacher Deb Gajic shows students how to calculate and apply the Wilcoxen Signed Ranks Test to a contemporary psychological hypothesis:

How to Calculate: In this short film Deb Gajic looks at probability – and how it can be applied in Psychology – through the concepts

How to Calculate: In this filmed walk-through, UK Psychology teacher and examiner Deb Gajic shows you how to calculate and apply the Mann Whitney U

How to Calculate: Deb Gajic demonstrates how to calculate and apply Chi Square to a contemporary psychological context – Piaget’s Conservation Experiment – using the

How to Calculate: In this short film Deb Gajic demonstrates how to calculate and apply the Sign Test to a contemporary psychological problem / hypothesis:

How To Calculate: If your students are having trouble understanding Spearman’s Rho – or you simply want to give them a concise step-by-step walk-through –

The ERA was the first study to follow a cohort of children who had suffered periods of institutional deprivation through into adult life. To their

Why do we fall in love? What makes us fall in love? And what happens to love? Poets, historians, philosophers, have been writing about these

Elizabeth Loftus’ pioneering research on “false memories” made a crucial contribution to the “recovered memory” debate and this film, featuring original interview footage of Loftus,

Neuroscientist Jim Fallon uncovered the defining characteristics of the “serial killer brain”, only to discover he too had the brain and genes of what he

This film explores an interactionist approach to obesity: Part 1: shows how cultural and environmental changes have altered our relationship with food and created an

Generations of students have been taught that Milgram’s famous obedience experiments demonstrated how easily ordinary people can be persuaded to harm others when instructed to

There’s a revolution challenging a century of taken for granted assumptions about genetics and raising new questions: How does environment affect gene expression? Could we

The foetal susceptibility hypothesis suggests the nourishment an embryo receives from its a mother is a major determinant of health in later life. In this

Students can read about the causes of depression and the therapies for its treatment. But what’s it actually like to suffer from depression? This short

Three short films highlighting the importance of the methodological processes underpinning the production of statistical data. In this film we combine three of our standalone

Issues and Debates: Psychological research is governed by a strict code of ethics covering things like obtaining participants’ consent; protecting them from possible harm and

Issues and Debates: Most psychology is individualistic, suggesting that people’s behaviour is a product of their biological inheritance and personal experiences. This short film, using

Issues and Debates: Do we really have free will? And, if so, where does it come from? In this film, Professor Patrick Haggard explains the

Issues and Debates: Is human behaviour explained primarily by what we inherit (nature) or what we experience (nurture)? This film uses the question of whether

Issues and Debates: A perennial question, both inside and outside Psychology, is whether or not it can be considered a science. This film: explains the

Issues and Debates: This film illustrates both the importance and limitations of reductionism in psychological explanation using the example of research into diet and obesity. 

Issues and Debates: Have you ever wondered why some people claim to see the face of Jesus in their toast? Well, psychologists at the University

Issues and Debates: While ethics is about the conduct of research, socially sensitive research is about the consequences. Might it harm some individuals or groups?

Issues and Debates: Does psychology have ethnocentric biases?  This film begins by explaining the key concept of social construction and then illustrates three sources of

Issues and Debates: This film begins by looking at how stricter ethical guidelines were developed in psychology.  Using one of our on-going research projects, it

Research Methods: Although the idea of variables can seem dull and uninspiring, they are crucial because they’re everywhere in psychology. This film provides a clear

Research Methods: Psychologists have told us a lot about human behaviour, but can we trust the findings? This film looks at the part played by

Research Methods: Sampling is crucial in psychology but can be difficult to understand. This film offers a helping hand with a series of visual images

Research Methods: Correlations are relationships and this film begins by illustrating how the strength and direction of those relationships is measured. It then uses real

Research Methods: This film uses the well-known case of Genie, a girl kept in solitary confinement from infancy until she was 13, to illustrate the

Research Methods: Self-report methods gather data directly from the participants and this short film illustrates and compares questionnaire and interview methods. The film also identifies

Research Methods: Some research questions in psychology involve getting out and seeing how people actually behave in real life situations. This is called naturalistic observation.

Research Methods: What is the most effective time of day for students to learn new material? We begin with this research question to give practical

Research Methods: Non-Experimental Research Methods in Psychology combines three of our standalone films (Naturalistic Observation, Self Report Methods and Case Studies) into one complete film,

Research Methods:  Experimental Methods in Psychology combines three of our standalone films (Laboratory, Field and Natural Experiments) into one complete film, designed as an introductory

Research Methods: In Natural Experiments circumstances present researchers with an opportunity to test the effect of one variable on another in ways that could not

Research Methods: Three classic studies – Hofling’s study of nurse obedience, Fischer’s test of the cognitive interview and the Pilliavins’ research on Good Samaritans –

Research Methods: This short introductory film uses some famous psychological studies to explain the experimental method and to illustrate how laboratory experiments are done. The