Comments on: Psychology Blog Topics

Question: Psychology Blog Topics

charmston — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:52:44 -0800

I'm starting a psychology-related blog that will focus on reviewing interesting and socially relevant literature. If you were a visitor to this blog, what type of topics would you be most interested in reading? I would like suggestions for specific articles, if you have them. Leave a name and URL if you'd like, and I'll credit you for the idea if I use it!

By: londongeezer

londongeezer — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:13:51 -0800

Well, I love reading stuff about why people buy things, and how to manipulate them into buying things. Sorry if that's a bit vague, I'm not a psychologist myself.

By: MiaWallace

MiaWallace — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:21:29 -0800

I'm not a psychologist either, but I do find cross-cultural psychology interesting- particularly where it pertains to differences in Eastern vs. Western behavior.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:59:25 -0800

Child psychology and it's implementation and availability in elementary education systems.

By: naturesgreatestmiracle

naturesgreatestmiracle — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:25:59 -0800

Your blog would be a great place to give a little love to the areas of psychology that are overlooked in popular media. Measurement, computational linguistics, categorisation, judgment and decision making, (to name a few) are all interesting areas that have a lot to say about human behavior and learning, but because they're difficult (often they employ complex mathematics), people don't like to pay attention to them. Maybe you could include some comment on these areas.

By: bunnycup

bunnycup — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:30:36 -0800

IANAP, but I have a degree in it.

Seconding londongeezer, I find consumer psychology very interesting and very relevant. I'm thinking about the infamous study where people always picked the stockings on the right, and other product placement-type material, along with analysis that can help a layman disarm some (shady) sales techinques. This education can be presented in really interesting ways that can bridge the gap of being scientifically strong for more educated readers, but very helpful, clear and relevant for lay consumers.

By: krautland

krautland — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:03:31 -0800

I would love to read your professional take on the given tabloid-junk of the day. you know, armchair-paris-hilton-analyzing. yes, trashy and junky and not what you asked about.

By: liberalintellect

liberalintellect — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:31:01 -0800

Everything related to the effects that one's attitude/expectations can have on theirs and others' well beings.

Under this enormous heading, you could find things like:
- expectancy (placebo) effects
- self-fulfilling prophecy literature (esp. related to education; thinking of the "pygmalion" study)
- health psychology/holistic medicine, e.g. what treating a cancer patient's depression will do for their ability to fight the illness

I think all of us need a little reminding now and again of how powerful our own outlooks can be.

Will you post again here to say what the blog's URL is? thanks.

By: jmnugent

jmnugent — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:08:35 -0800

For me personally.. I think the 2 more relevant and important issues of our time are:

---the psychological ramifications of dealing with "hyper-accelerated society" (information-overload, and dealing with exponential progress in the advancement of technology)

---the psychological ramifications of dealing with massively interconnected society (being able to learn about anything/anyone at anytime.. is so radically different than previous times in history when you might spend your entire life in 1 town)

By: browolf

browolf — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:14:20 -0800

dating and adult friends sites are, I think, a hotbed of psychology.