Geoff Rolls has taught Psychology for over 26 years, and is currently Head of Psychology at Peter Symonds College, Winchester. He is the author of the popular 'Women Can't Park, Men Can't Pack' (Chambers 2009) which investigates gender stereotypes (including driving) and also 'Taking the Proverbial' (Chambers, 2007) which explores the psychological truth behind well-known proverbs and sayings.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Cognitive Psychology

1. The man who couldn't forget: the story of Solomon Shereshevsky ('S')
2. The man who lived for the present: the story of H.M. (Henry Gustav Molaison)
3. The man who was disappointed by what he saw: the story of S.B.
4. Kim Peek: The real Rain Man
5. Holly Ramona and the nature of memory

Part 2: Social Psychology

6. The girl who cried murder: the story of Catherine 'Kitty' Genovese
7. Jonestown and the dangers of obedience
8. The end of the world is nigh: the case of Dorothy Martin
9. Bad apples or bad barrels?: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and Stanford University

Part 3: Developmental psychology

10. Innocence lost: the story of Genie
11. The boy who was never a girl: the story of David Reimer
12. The Wild Boy of Aveyron: the story of Victor
13. Two little boys: The story of Little Albert and Little Peter
14. The 'Jim' Twins: Identical yet raised apart

Part 4: Individual differences

15. The boy who needed to play: the story of Dibs
16. The man who was turned on by prams and handbags
17. Freud's analysis of phobia in a young boy: the story of Little Hans
18. The three faces of Eve: the story of Chris Sizemore
19. The boy who couldn't stop washing: a story of OCD

Part 5: Physiological psychology

20. The men who didn't sleep: the story of Peter Tripp and Randy Gardner
21. The man who lived with a hole in his head: The story of Phineas Gage
22. The man with no brain?
23. Natural Born Killer?: Charles Decker: the case of the Crocodile Man

Part 6: Comparative psychology

24. Talking to the animals: Washoe and Roger Fouts

Signposting Approaches, Issues and Debates

Glossary