The Saviour of Ceylon - The story of Leonard Birchall
By Norflicks Productions Ltd. - 2006
All wars produce heroes but rarely in a global conflict do the actions of one man affect the direction and possibly even the result of the whole war…
Just Another Tuesday
By Jonny Santana - 2018
A short film based on Aaron Stark's TEDxBoulder Talk, "I Was Almost a School Shooter," in which Aaron talks about how, after growing up in painful…
All My Relations | Nova Scotia, Canada | Mi'kmaq people
By PVP-DRP - 2021
Cree musician Pakesso Mukash travels to Nova Scotia, Canada to meet Mike Doucette, a renowned Master of Ceremonies and advocate for Mi'kmaq tradition…
Criminal Offender Profiling
By ShortCutsTV - 2020
An area that’s captured the public imagination from tv shows like Mindhunter and Criminal Minds is criminal profiling. But what’s the reality…
Media and Aggression
By ShortCutsTV - 2020
Can we learn aggression from aggressive media? This film looks at experimental, longitudinal and case study research evidence and how social…
Rosenhan: Being Sane in Insane Places
By ShortCutsTV - 2020
This haunting film provides a brilliant summary of one of the most infamous experiments ever conducted in psychology, looking at its origins…
Unmasking: The End of Debate?
By ShortCutsTV - 2020
Based on new work by a Prof Peter Baehr that suggests debate and evidence are being replaced by accusations against individuals and that a great deal…
Participant Observation
By ShortCutsTV - 2019
Some research questions can only really be studied by sociologists getting out of their offices and interacting directly with the people they want to…
Self Report Methods: Interviews and Questionnaires
By ShortCutsTV - 2019
How do school students negotiate the pressures to perform well academically alongside the pressure to popular and cool? Carolyn Jackson combined…
Bowlby: Attachment & Maternal Deprivation
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
In the 1930s a young psychiatrist noticed how many of the disturbed children he saw had been separated from their parents in early life. This was…
Insomnia: Causes and Treatments
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Insomnia', says one of the respondents we interviewed, 'can be as debilitating as a physical injury'. This film looks at the causes of insomnia, the…
Labelling Theory
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Traditionally criminology focused on criminal action and its control. Labelling theory widened the focus to include the social reaction to crime and…
Sleep, Memory & Learning
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
While sleep rests and repairs the brain, it continues to be active and sleep psychologists believe one of the things it's doing is helping to…
Space, Place & Crime
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Spatial criminology asks whether it's possible to reduce crime by changing social spaces. This film begins with Zimbardo's influential abandoned cars…
Strain Theory
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Merton was one of the first sociologists to look at the relationship between culture and crime. This film provides a clear introduction to Merton's…
The Structure of Sleep
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Until relatively recently what happens while we sleep was a mystery. But that changed with the advent of polysomnography, the electrical recording of…
Why Do We Sleep?
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
We spend about a third of our lives asleep. But why do we need to sleep? Filmed at a University Sleep Lab, this short film demonstrates the effects…
Case Study Research
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
This film uses the well-known case of 'Genie', a girl kept in solitary confinement from infancy until she was 13, to illustrate the use of case…
Correlations
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Correlations are relationships and this film begins by illustrating how the strength and direction of those relationships is measured. It then uses…
Nature-Nurture and Psychology
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Is human behaviour explained primarily by what we inherit (nature) or what we experience (nurture)? This film uses the example of whether there are…
Observational Methods
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Some research questions in psychology involve getting out and seeing how people actually behave in real life situations. This is called naturalistic…
Psychology & Science
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Is Psychology a science? This film explains the scientific method, illustrates its application in psychology, and shows how not all questions in…
Reductionism and Psychology
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
This film illustrates both the importance and limitations of reductionism in psychological explanation using the example of research into diet and…
Reliability & Validity
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Psychologists have told us a lot about human behaviour, but can we trust the findings? This film looks at the part played by reliability and validity…
Sampling
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Sampling is crucial in psychology but can be difficult to understand. This film offers a helping hand with a series of visual images that take…
Self-Report Methods
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Self-report methods gather data directly from the participants. Here, we illustrate and compare questionnaire and interview methods, then look at…
The Usefulness of Psychological Research
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Have you ever wondered why some people claim to see the face of Jesus in their toast? Well, psychologists at the University of Toronto did. But why…
Using Non-Human Animals in Research
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
This film begins with how animals were used in psychological research by looking at Harlow's experiments, where baby rhesus monkeys were isolated in…
Variables
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Although the idea of variables can seem dull and uninspiring, they are crucial because they're everywhere in psychology. This film provides a clear…
Ethics & Ethical Issues in Psychology
By ShortCutsTV - 2016
This film begins by looking at how stricter ethical guidelines were developed in psychology. Using an on-going research project, it illustrates…
Ethnocentrism and Psychology
By ShortCutsTV - 2016
Might psychology have ethnocentric biases? This film begins by explaining the key concept of social construction and then illustrates three sources…
Experimental Design
By ShortCutsTV - 2016
What is the most effective time of day for students to learn new material? We begin with this research question to give practical illustrations of…
Field Experiments
By ShortCutsTV - 2016
Three classic studies - Hofling's study of nurse obedience, Fischer's test of the cognitive interview and the Pilliavins' research on good Samaritans…
Natural Experiments
By ShortCutsTV - 2016
In natural experiments circumstances present researchers with an opportunity to test the effect of one variable on another in ways that could not be…
Socially Sensitive Research in Psychology
By ShortCutsTV - 2016
While ethics is about the conduct of research, socially sensitive research is about the consequences. Might it harm some individuals or groups? Using…
Case Studies
By ShortCutsTV - 2019
If you go and see your doctor or a therapist, you'll become a 'case' to them. They'll want to know a lot more about you. Similarly, sociological case…
New Religions: Alternative Spiritualities?
By ShortCutsTV - 2019
Sometimes practised far away from the world and sometimes in the full glare of hostile media, there are thousands of new religions. With examples…
Religion: What it Is and What it Does
By ShortCutsTV - 2019
Ask a hundred people what they think religion is and you'll probably get a hundred different answers. However, to study religion we have bring…
The Cannibal on Bus 1170: Re-Thinking Moral Panics
By ShortCutsTV - 2019
When Vincent Li murdered and then cannibalised 22 year old Tim McLean on a Greyhound Bus heading for Winnipeg, the shock waves ran through Canadian…
The Ethics of Abortion: When Does Life Begin?
By ShortCutsTV - 2019
The controversies surrounding abortion involve a clash between two fundamental rights: the right of the unborn child, or foetus, and the rights of…
Ainsworth: The Strange Situation
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
While John Bowlby focussed on the consequences of a lack of attachment, Mary Ainsworth took a step back and looked at the nature of attachment and…
Mind-Mindedness and Attachment Security
By ShortCutsTV - 2018
Psychologists have long been aware that attachment security may be transmitted from one generation to the next. But how does this happen? A new idea…
Aftershock: Obedience & Identity
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Milgram's obedience experiments are among the most famous studies ever conducted in psychology. Generations of students have been taught that they…
Are You What Your Mother Ate? The Agouti Mouse Study
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
The foetal susceptibility hypothesis suggests the nourishment an embryo receives from its a mother is a major determinant of health in later life. In…
Determinism and Free Will
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Do we really have free will? And, if so, where does it come from? In this film, Professor Patrick Haggard explains the differences between free will…
Experimental Research Methods in Psychology
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
This film combines three of our standalone films into one complete film, designed as an introductory overview to this area of a Psychology research…
Individualistic and Situational Psychology
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
Most psychology is individualistic, suggesting that people's behaviour is a product of their biological inheritance and personal experiences. This…
Lost in the Mall: The Memory War
By ShortCutsTV - 2017
From the late 1990s recovered memory therapy was sweeping across America. In the legal cases that followed, experts assured the courts of the…