Michelle Satchwell is Head of the Social Sciences Department at a large school in Derbyshire, UK. She analyses the use of kids in horror films and examines the genre through the prism of Evolutionary, Cognitive, Psychodynamic, and Social Psychology. She will definitely make you question yourselves why you feel the way you do when you watch a horror.
References:
Trypophobia – fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps, e.g. buttons, crumpets, sponges etc.
Evolutionary/Biological psychology
There’s not a named psychologist, but we tend to take Dawkins and apply to psychology.
Emamzadeh (2018) Origin of common fears: A review (Psychology Today)
Parapsychology
[ESP cards]
Utts (1991) Replication and meta-analysis in parapsychology.
Cognitive psychology
[Elizabeth Loftus pioneer in the field and expert witness in courts].
Loftus and Palmer (1974) Reconstruction of automobile destruction (I mentioned experiment 1).
Loftus and Pickerell (1995) Lost in the mall study.
Jean Piaget (1952) Assimilation and Accommodation in Schema theory.
Psychodynamic psychology
Sigmund Freud (1917) Introduction to psychoanalysis.
[Id, Ego, and Superego all part of the Tripartite model of the personality in our unconscious like an iceberg].
Social psychology
Haney et al (1973) Stanford Prison experiment.
Zimbardo (2007) Lucifer effect.
Piliavin et al (1969) Good Samaritanism.
[The bystander effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSsPfbup0ac]
Behaviourism
Pavlov (1897) Classical conditioning in dogs
Social Learning theory:
Bandura et al (1961) Bobo doll experiment.
Michelle’s book: Psychology Review: A-level Exam Skills and Practice Paperback – 30 Oct. 2020 ISBN-10: 1398308013
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