Food For Thought: Emotional Eating

Exams; countless hours spent learning a semester’s worth of material in one night, usually…

Music Auditions as a Psychological Test

I don’t perform well under pressure. Not artistically, anyway. And I’m sure I’m not the…

Anxiety: An Everyday Battle

Everyone gets nervous or anxious in situations such as public speaking, preparing for exams or even in the presence of tiny…

Stroop? Big whoop!

PSYC 406, a 400 level psychology course offered at McGill University. You’d be lying to yourself if you claim to never have heard of the Stroop test. Unless you actually have no idea what it is, then in that case… pat yourself on the back for making it so far. As a refresher; the Stroop task is…

Using objective measures to assess intelligence they say … What about the effects of stereotype threat on performance?

False Diagnoses

We don’t always know ourselves the best, but should we really trust others in analyzing ourselves?

DSM is Everywhere!

The DSM handbook has been useful for psychologists in identifying patients with mental disorders. However, something it has not been used for is diagnosing our environment.

Human beings are not the only ones that should be classified as having a mental disorder. Believe…

Are we all racist?

Has racial prejudice really been abandoned or just changed its outer appearance? Do we really endorse the values that today’s society…

A Little Evaluation Variety

Looking back, I begin to realize that I learned some of the most important things in pre-school. There was always an emphasis on things such as cooperation and sharing. Although often overlooked, things such as cooperation go a long way. We were taught valuable things in the…

The reproducibility of psychological science

Investigators spend hours upon hours meticulously planning and carrying out tests for their experiments. An unfathomable amount of time and energy is invested to ensure their test will measure exactly what it was designed to measure and as little…