Abnormal and Behavioural Psychology

The neuropsychological method has been critical in providing significant discoveries that have allowed for a better understanding of the human mind and its operations. Despite the potential of this technique and the distinct viewpoint it provides, it has only been used in a small number of studies on creative cognition. This paper provides a brief overview of three methodologies used in the neuropsychology of creativity: single case studies, case series investigations on neurological populations and case series investigations on psychiatric populations, as well as highlights some of the key findings from each approach. The goal is to establish a case for the usefulness of the neuropsychological method in gaining a deeper understanding of the creative mind.

Clinical psychology and evolutionary science have always had a limited interaction. The state of such link is examined in this article in light of a current multi-dimensional and multi-level extended evolutionary method. Evolution may be purposeful and even conscious and evolutionary ideas can provide direction and consilience to clinical psychology, particularly as it focuses more on transition processes. The timing appears to be right to regard clinical psychology as an applied evolutionary science. A focus on morality in collective action movements is one topic of inquiry that has resurfaced in the recent decade. Recent psychology research reveal that moral duty to act, rather than simply moral principles or convictions advocated by the movement, is a crucial predictor of participation in collective action demonstrations.