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Social Psychology
This includes:Introducing Social Psychology, Research Methods, Social Perceptions and Cognition, The Social Self, Values and Attitudes, Attitude Change, Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience, Language and Communication, Interpersonal Attraction and Interpersonal Relationships, Prosocial Behaviour, Cooperation and Conflict, Aggression and Violence, Social Categorization, Groups, and Leadership, Prejudice, Discrimination, and Sexism, Crowds and Collective Behaviour, Social Psychology of Justice and the Law, Health and Illness.
        

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

New theory: Child abuse can cause schizophrenia.

University of Manchester researcher Paul Hammersley is to tell two international conferences, in London and Madrid on 14 June 2006, that child abuse can cause schizophrenia. The groundbreaking and highly contentious theory, co-presented by New Zealand clinical psychologist Dr John Read, has been described as "an earthquake" that will radically change the psychiatric profession.

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Researchers build an ultrasound version of the laser.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Missouri at Rolla have built an ultrasound analogue of the laser. Called a uaser (pronounced WAY-zer) -- for ultrasound amplification by stimulated emission of radiation -- the instrument produces ultrasonic waves that are coherent and of one frequency, and could be used to study laser dynamics and detect subtle changes, such as phase changes, in modern materials.[and people? -- BL]

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