Lesson Idea: Origins of Conflict

Travis DixonHuman Relationships, Social and Cultural Psychology

Your Task There are five resources below that you will need to complete this task. Working with your group, it’s a race to see who can answer this question first: All of these conflicts started for the same reason. What is that reason? Source 1: The “Beaver Wars” (Warpaths2peacepipes) This article summarizes a conflict in North America in the late …

Love and Marriage Support Pack is Now Available

Travis DixonHuman Relationships, Love and Marriage, Teaching Ideas, Themantics

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added another support pack to the store. Chapter 5 – Love and Marriage is now ready to roll. Go to our store (link) and you’ll find our support packs We’ve tried to make the resource better by implementing some feedback: We’ve made them easier to edit so teachers can adapt them more easily We’ve …

Key Studies: Dopamine and Love (Fisher et al. 2005)
What happens in the brains of people in love?

Travis DixonBiological Psychology, Human Relationships

What happens in our brain when we see the person we love? Why do we fall in love and stay with one person? What is the relationship between love and dopamine? These are some of the questions Helen Fisher and her colleagues set about asking in their 2005 fMRI study, “Romantic Love: An fMRI Study of a Neural Mechanism for …

Key Studies: Darley and Latane – Bystanderism (1968)

Travis DixonHuman Relationships

Darley and Latane hypothesized two factors that may influence bystanderism: Diffusion of responsibility Social influence Diffusion of Responsibility “Someone else will help.” This is one thought that might be a result of diffusion of responsibility. To diffuse means to spread something widely, so if there are more people around the responsibility of helping is spread amongst those people so individuals …