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Your Monday morning shot of caffeine

We take a themed hit from the archives – what is the psychological story of the stimulant, in its various forms?

10 November 2014

The pros and cons of caffeine - Rebecca Thompson and Karen Keene (The Psychologist, December 2004)

Psychology in the coffee shop - Tom Stafford (The Psychologist, July 2003)

Coca Cola - Brain tonic or poison? - Ludy T. Benjamin Jr (The Psychologist, November 2010)

Coffee helps women cope with stressful meetings but has the opposite effect on men - Research Digest, January 2011)

Coffee cravings can play havoc with your memory - Research Digest, August 2017

Caffeine causes widespread brain entropy (and that’s a good thing) - Research Digest, April 2018

Heavy coffee drinkers want coffee a lot more than they actually like it - Research Digest, June 2020

Coffee can’t fix all the cognitive impairments caused by a bad night’s sleep - Research Digest, January 2022

Decaf coffee reduces caffeine withdrawal – even when you know it’s decaf - Research Digest, January 2023

Drinking coffee before shopping can lead to impulse buying - Research Digest, June 2022

The psychological effects of your morning coffee - November 2022

Ginny Smith on caffeine and more

The pedagogical power of the campus coffee shop - Seetal Patel (final year student at the University of Leeds) and Dr Madeleine Pownall (Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Leeds) on shared spaces and campus belonging.

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