The Psych Diaries

✦ ✦ ✦ The Psych Diaries What Is Social Psychology? Social psychology is the scientific study of human behaviour, thoughts and feelings across different social situations. Social psychologists are interested in studying group dynamics, prosocial or antisocial behaviour, prejudice, attraction and much more! There’s really no end to…

✦ ✦ ✦ I hate math. Always have, probably always will. I will never forget the feeling of getting a 34% on my year 12 mathematics trial exam. In that moment, my heart sank. How was I going to study psychology if I couldn’t pass high school math?…

✦ ✦ ✦ Need A Beginner-Friendly Psychology Experiment? Coming up with a psychology experiment can feel harder than actually conducting one. If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a blank document wondering, “What should I investigate?”, you’re definitely not alone. To help you get started, I’ve put together…

✦ ✦ ✦ Let’s be honest. Half the “best apps for psychology students” lists online are just someone discovering Notion for the first time. And while I do love a colour-coded dashboard as much as the next psychology student, our degree comes with some very specific struggles: Reading…

✦ ✦ ✦ Writing a hypothesis sounds simple… until you actually have to do it. If you’ve ever sat there wondering “wait… how do I phrase this properly?”, you’re not alone. Hypotheses are one of those things that seem obvious in lectures but get weirdly confusing when you…

✦ ✦ ✦ The Psych Diaries Looking for your next fav podcast? Anyone else love podcasts?! I feel like there’s been a huge resurgence of audio entertainment recently. It seems like everyone and their uncle has a podcast. There’s no shortage of great pods to explore… but with…