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Researching your topic
Image via Wikipedia ‘Where’s my reading list?’ I hear you ask. ‘How am I supposed to write this dumb essayContinue Reading
Some more on memory
I continued this theme yesterday with a post on my Psychology Today blog: you can read the post here. ItContinue Reading
Those pesky learning outcomes
Last time we asked why the essay has become a perennial favourite as a way of assessing students’ knowledge. Now thatContinue Reading
What is an essay and why has it come here to bother me?
You’ve been asked to write a 1500-word essay. You’ve panicked, moaned to your friends about the unfairness of it all,Continue Reading
Memories of those who are gone
I’ve had some really interesting feedback on my article on children’s memory for lost family members, published in the GuardianContinue Reading
Thanks to the bloggers
Thank you to the writers of the blogs that have supported the book over the last year or so: OneContinue Reading
What tiny eyes see
I’ve been talking quite a bit recently about how the world looks to a newborn baby (see my Radiolab andContinue Reading
Don’t keep it to yourself
Over at Psychology Today I have been blogging about the psychological significance of children’s private speech, a topic that willContinue Reading
Parents and experts
I had been planning to blog on our recent article on children’s trust in the testimony of their mothers (andContinue Reading







