• Question: what is the thing that most drove you towards psychology? personally I find the way people think and learn the most interesting.

    Asked by anon-215941 to Laura, Kathryn, Ian, Chris, Bogdana, Alex on 10 Jun 2019. This question was also asked by anon-215932.
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      Bogdana Huma answered on 10 Jun 2019:

      I also wanted to understand people better, especially how we interact with others. I found it fascinating that we change our behaviour depending of who we talk to and for what reason.

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      Ian Cookson answered on 10 Jun 2019:

      It was my interest in sport. I was too old, injured, and rubbish to actually play sport professionally, but psychology was an interesting way of potentially working within sport.

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      Kathryn Atherton answered on 10 Jun 2019:

      My interest in psychology lies in the fact that I think your understanding of the world has to start from your understanding of the lens through which you view it.

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      Alex Lloyd answered on 11 Jun 2019:

      It was always my interest in people that drove me towards psychology. The reason I research teenagers is that I’ve seen the great potential teenagers have for creativity and inventiveness but I have also seen when this can go wrong when young people take risks in way that can harm themselves.

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      Laura Fisk answered on 11 Jun 2019:

      I think I mentioned in my profile – but mostly I was drawn to psychology because I’m nosy! Ok, let’s rephrase that and say “curious” 🙂 I am fascinated by people: why they do what they do as individuals, in groups, in society; interested in how we make sense of conflict between people and how we can resolve it and make things better; curious about emotions. Psychology was one way I could mix academic skill (learning about theories and models and facts) with actually working directly with people (helping them feel better, solving problems).

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      Chris Fullwood answered on 11 Jun 2019:

      I guess like many people I was driven to Psychology because I wanted to understand myself better (I haven’t) and wanted to try and make more sense of the complexity of human motivation and behaviour. I think I’m more confused now than I ever have been though!

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