Mind Changers

In each 30 minute episode of this landmark series on the history of psychology, Claudia takes a classic psychological experiment and travels to where it was conducted, to discover whether there was more to it than we read in the textbooks. She also traces the impact the study has had since then. For Mind Changers, Claudia has interviewed many well-known psychologists including Elizabeth Loftus, Albert Bandura, Carol Dweck and Philip Zimbardo. 

Taken as a whole, the series, produced by Marya Burgess, provides a comprehensive history of psychology for students or anyone interested in how we think, feel and behave. 

Mind Changers

In each 30 minute episode of this landmark series on the history of psychology, Claudia takes a classic psychological experiment and travels to where it was conducted, to discover whether there was more to it than we read in the textbooks. She also traces the impact the study has had since then. For Mind Changers, Claudia has interviewed many well-known psychologists including Elizabeth Loftus, Albert Bandura, Carol Dweck and Philip Zimbardo. 

Taken as a whole, the series, produced by Marya Burgess, provides a comprehensive history of psychology for students or anyone interested in how we think, feel and behave. 

The Wild Boy of Aveyron

1800

The Wild Boy of Aveyron

Phineas Gage

1848

Phineas Gage – The Man with a Hole in his Head

Sigmund Freud

1904

Sigmund Freud & Little Hans

Sigmund Freud

1905

Sigmund Freud & Dora

A White rabbit

1919

J. B. Watson & Little Albert

A former factory

1927

The Hawthorne Effect

Claudia Hammond

1932

Sir Frederick Bartlett & The War of the Ghosts

A pigeon

1948

B. F. Skinner & the Superstitious Pigeons

A simple diagram

1951

Solomon Asch & Conformity

A blue plaque commemorating Anna Freud

1952

Anna Freud & Child Observation

A bungalow

1953

H. M. – the Man Who Couldn’t Remember

A microphone

1954

Abraham Maslow & the Hierarchy of Needs

Claudia Hammond in a radio studio

1956

Jean Piaget & the Three Mountains Task

Cocktail glasses

1958

Donald Broadbent & the Cocktail Party

Chicago seen through a fish-eye lens

1958

Lawrence Kohlberg & the Heinz Dilemma

Claudia Hammond in a laboratory with a microphone

1958

Joseph Wolpe & Systematic Desensitisation

Model monkeys

1959

Harry Harlow & the Baby Monkeys

Claudia Hammond with Albert Bandura

1961

Albert Bandura & The Bobo Doll

Portland Place, London

1963

Richard Gregory & S. B. – the Man Who was Disappointed with What he Saw

Claudia Hammond & Marya Burgess

1964

Carl Rogers and the Person-centered Approach

An apartment building

1964

Kitty Genovese & the Bystander Effect

A staircase

1965

John/Joan – the Boy Who was Raised as a Girl

Radio studio clocks

1966

Julian Rotter & Locus of Control

Marshmallows

1970

Walter Mischel & the Marshmallow Study

A microphone

1971

Henri Tajfel’s Minimal Groups

Claudia Hammond with Philip Zimbardo

1971

Philip Zimbardo & the Stanford Prison Experiment

Claudia Hammond

1973

David Rosenhan & the Pseudo-patient Study

A New York street at night

1974

Elizabeth Loftus & Eye Witness Testimony

Claudia Hammond

1975

Hans Eysenck & the Test for Extraversion

Arden House

1976

Ellen Langer & the Arden House Study

Claudia Hammond

1978

Mary Ainsworth & the Strange Situation

A New Orleans balcony

1986

James Pennebaker & Expressive Writing

A courtyard

2006

Carol Dweck & the Growth Mindset

The Wild Boy of Aveyron

1800

The Wild Boy of Aveyron

Phineas Gage

1848

Phineas Gage – The Man with a Hole in his Head

Sigmund Freud

1904

Sigmund Freud & Little Hans

Sigmund Freud

1905

Sigmund Freud & Dora

A White rabbit

1919

J. B. Watson & Little Albert

A former factory

1927

The Hawthorne Effect

Claudia Hammond

1932

Sir Frederick Bartlett & The War of the Ghosts

A pigeon

1948

B. F. Skinner & the Superstitious Pigeons

A simple diagram

1951

Solomon Asch & Conformity

A blue plaque commemorating Anna Freud

1952

Anna Freud & Child Observation

A bungalow

1953

H. M. – the Man Who Couldn’t Remember

A microphone

1954

Abraham Maslow & the Hierarchy of Needs

Claudia Hammond in a radio studio

1956

Jean Piaget & the Three Mountains Task

Cocktail glasses

1958

Donald Broadbent & the Cocktail Party

Chicago seen through a fish-eye lens

1958

Lawrence Kohlberg & the Heinz Dilemma

Claudia Hammond in a laboratory with a microphone

1958

Joseph Wolpe & Systematic Desensitisation

Model monkeys

1959

Harry Harlow & the Baby Monkeys

Claudia Hammond with Albert Bandura

1961

Albert Bandura & The Bobo Doll

Portland Place, London

1963

Richard Gregory & S. B. – the Man Who was Disappointed with What he Saw

Claudia Hammond & Marya Burgess

1964

Carl Rogers and the Person-centered Approach

An apartment building

1964

Kitty Genovese & the Bystander Effect

A staircase

1965

John/Joan – the Boy Who was Raised as a Girl

Radio studio clocks

1966

Julian Rotter & Locus of Control

Marshmallows

1970

Walter Mischel & the Marshmallow Study

A microphone

1971

Henri Tajfel’s Minimal Groups

Claudia Hammond with Philip Zimbardo

1971

Philip Zimbardo & the Stanford Prison Experiment

Claudia Hammond

1973

David Rosenhan & the Pseudo-patient Study

A New York street at night

1974

Elizabeth Loftus & Eye Witness Testimony

Claudia Hammond

1975

Hans Eysenck & the Test for Extraversion

Arden House

1976

Ellen Langer & the Arden House Study

Claudia Hammond

1978

Mary Ainsworth & the Strange Situation

A New Orleans balcony

1986

James Pennebaker & Expressive Writing

A courtyard

2006

Carol Dweck & the Growth Mindset