Psychology
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Research topics below this in the hierarchy
- Philosophy. Relation to other topics
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychological tests and testing
- Experimental psychology
- Gestalt psychology
- Psychotropic drugs and other substances
- Sensation. Aesthesiology
- Parapsychology
- Consciousness. Cognition. Including learning, attention, comprehension, memory, imagination, genius, intelligence, thought and thinking, psycholinguistics, mental fatigue
- Motivation
- Affection. Feeling. Emotion
- Will. Volition. Choice. Control
- Applied psychology
- New Thought. Menticulture, etc.
- Comparative psychology. Animal and human psychology
- Psychology of sex. Sexual behavior
- Differential psychology. Individuality. Self
- Personality
- Genetic psychology
- Developmental psychology. Including infant psychology, child psychology, adolescence, adulthood.
- Class psychology
- Temperament. Character
- Physiognomy. Phrenology
- Graphology. Study of handwriting
- The hand. Palmistry
Research topics above this in the hierarchy
Research problems linked to this topic
- What can cognitive science and neuroscientific developments tell us about effective teaching approaches?
- How can we identify children that are at risk of offending at an early stage? How can we prevent the transmission of intergenerational offending to children and young people in families with a history of offending? How can we minimise the criminogenic impact of a child’s contact with the youth justice system?
- The social and psychological harm of new forms of crime.
- How can we better understand drivers of demand in the justice system, so that we support early problem resolution where appropriate, whilst ensuring the formal justice system is accessible to those who need it?
- How will the use of generative AI to create ‘deepfakes’ that manipulate people’s likeness (face, body, voice) evolve? What is the psychological impact of being deepfaked, and what harmful uses (e.g. intimate image abuse, fraud, reputational damage) will develop and increase?
- Intersectionality: How do multiple sources of disadvantage combine and reinforce over an individual’s time within the justice system? How does intersectionality affect individual experiences and outcomes?
- What do we know about the public acceptability of necessary restrictions such as counter disease measures? What lessons are applicable from public acceptability of the coronavirus restrictions to the animal and plant health domain?
- What workplace wellbeing innovations would police staff be accepting of, use and find most supportive?
- What emerging technologies, such as wearables, can help identify and enable earlier interventions for struggling workforce members before they reach crisis point, for example, through the analysis of psychophysiological data?
- What are the influences on young people’s decision making at key education transition points, including subject and qualification choice at key stage 4 and 5? How do these choices influence their later economic outcomes?
- What teaching approaches are most effective in helping pupils to pay attention, grasp new ideas, develop skill (such as writing), retain knowledge, transfer knowledge, and be motivated to learn? Why are these approaches most effective? Applied research might include, for example: how various forms of retrieval practice can help pupils retain knowledge for longer periods, or how teacher instruction, teacher questioning, and in-class reading can be used to enhance understanding, and how these effects vary across different phases or subjects.
- Behavioural science methods and insights: to better understand the needs and motivations of those within the justice system, their interactions with public services, and their responses to interventions.
- To what extent does an individual’s input into the services they receive whilst under supervision affect their motivation, and how does this influence desistance?
- Data Science and Decisions - How can MOD harness the benefits of data science? How do we build trust in automated systems? How do we integrate multiple sources of information with differing levels of uncertainty and represent this effectively and efficiently to busy decision makers?
- Human engagement - For future operations, are there alternatives to the use of hard/physical power? How can we best predict behaviour in response to our actions? How do we best engage with diverse communities, particularly where our adversaries may be hiding within the civilian populations? How do we work effectively with our Allies?
- How does well-being matter in the context of levelling up? What are the most effective levers for government (central and local) to affect well-being? How does well-being interact with other place based interventions such as housing and regeneration?
- Which harmful online uses of AI are likely to increase? What could be the impact of AI-generated content on attitudes, beliefs, behaviours or psychological wellbeing?
- How can we conduct probabilistic analysis of the likelihood of man-made risks for policy purposes where human agency is subject to particular varieties of uncertainty?
- Space and place: How do the social and material constructs of space affect interactions with the justice system? How can place-based understanding and approaches account for factors that influence human behaviour and decisions?
- Can we further explore quantitatively the role of expectations and narrative in determining the economic fortunes of regions and sub-regions of the UK?
- What does evidence from the natural and cognitive sciences suggest about how schools might influence pupil motivation, behaviour, and learning? How can this be translated into teaching practices that reliably improve pupil attainment?
- Promoting a learning culture and maximising learning from challenging experiences
- What are the key factors regarding public trust on autonomous systems?
- What are the determinants of people’s subjective sense of satisfaction in the place in which they live? What matters most to different cohorts at different times in their lives in different places?
- What is the prevalence of different pedagogical approaches in different early years settings, including maintained nurseries and nursery provision in primary schools? How does this vary across the workforce? Which of these approaches have the greatest impact on development?
- How has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced how people engage with and value environmental systems (including nature, wildlife, and farming and food supply)? What opportunities does this present to lock-in positive behaviour change and secure environmental objectives in the longer term?
- Which techniques are best for estimating the effects of interacting risks? How do we ensure that communication of risk is relevant and effective? What lessons can we take from the response to the coronavirus pandemic about the communication of risk and of the need for behavioural change?
- How can we better quantify and measure the benefits of social work assessment, training and development in terms of child outcomes such as wellbeing and educational achievement?
- What works to build and sustain positive relationships between staff and individuals under supervision? How does staff diversity impact on relationships with individuals? How can quality relationships influence the outcomes of individuals under supervision?
- The role and influence of the internet and social media in the radicalisation process and ways to intervene.
- How can we make the most of participatory/ co-design approaches with different groups in society, including digital engagement, to generate new ideas, learn from existing practice, and build consensus for the future of policy?
- What are the long-term impacts on children’s developmental outcomes because of placements made under public law orders in care proceedings? Including care orders, placement orders, and special guardianship orders?
- Understanding the effects of mainstream and social media on violence
- Understanding which individuals are at risk of becoming offenders (and/or victims), for what reasons and at what stages of their lives.
- Development of systems approaches that can be used to inform policymaking. This includes approaches to provide insights into complex systems, identify points of intervention, account for multiple perspectives, and frame policy decisions