Professor George Miller, from Princeton University, explains what psychology is, what psychologists do, and the impor...

Professor Jerome Bruner, from the New School for Social Research in New York, explains how the study of the 'mind', o...

Until the present century vision was often regarded as a simple process - the eyes provide the brain with pictures of...

Until recently psychologists shunned questions about the philosophy of 'mind' in the belief that they were tedious an...

One of Sigmund Freud's most important contributions to psychology was the notion of an unconscious mind which can gui...

In the 18th century it was assumed that the mind was 'transparent to itself '- that everything occurring in the brain...

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For most people the expression of such feelings as fear, anger, jealousy or love forms an important part of human lif...

The most publicised work in understanding human social behaviour in recent years has been the 'naked ape' approach wh...

Robert Hinde has spent most of his academic life at Cambridge studying the behaviour of birds and monkeys. More recen...

In Victorian times armchair anthropologists regarded tribal man as a fossilised remnant of our primitive ancestors. C...

The act of painting a scene is normally imagined to be an exercise in manual dexterity. There is, however, a great de...

The work of psychologist Sigmund Freud forms the basis of psychoanalysis, but his ideas have also profoundly altered ...

Although psychoanalysis is usually associated with the work of Sigmund Freud, a number of psychologists have found th...

Despite remarkable advances in medical science over the past century, there is still no clear medical understanding o...