15 Radio Programmes about Psychology

Archived programmes from the BBC series Mind Changers, hosted by Claudia Hammond:

1. Henri Tajfel's Minimal Groups
2. Walter Mischel's Marshmallow Study
3. Arden House : Langer and Rodin's 1976 Arden House study.
4. Harlow's Monkeys : Harry Harlow's surrogate mothers experiment, which revolutionised parenting.
5. The Hawthorne Effect : The 1920s experiment in a Chicago factory that gave rise to the Hawthorne Effect.
6. The Pseudo-Patient Study : David Rosenhan's Pseudo-Patient Study.
7. The Bobo Doll : Albert Bandura's experiment in 1961 exposed the dangers of imitative behaviour.
8. The Heinz Dilemma : Lawrence Kohlberg's experiment to quantify the human capacity for ethical reasoning.
9. The Stanford Prison Experiment : When Philip Zimbardo set up a mock prison, he had no idea what he would witness.
10. Hans Eysenck : Hans Eysenck's studies of introvert and extrovert personalities.
11. Mary Ainsworth : Mary Ainsworth's research on the parent-child relationship.
12. John Watson and Little Emotional Albert : Profiles JB Watson, the psychologist considered the father of behaviourism
13. Sir Frederic Bartlett – The War of the Ghosts : Memory and the Chinese whispers experiment by Frederic Bartlett.
14. Jean Piaget – The Three Mountains : Were Jean Piaget's findings about children's egocentrism are accurate.
15. Solomon Asch - Conformity : The conformity experiments of social psychologist, Solomon Asch.