• Question: Have you ever thought of an invention that you could make?

    Asked by anon-287999 on 9 Mar 2021.
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      anon answered on 9 Mar 2021: last edited 9 Mar 2021 6:29 pm

      Hi CarysS,

      Not exactly an invention, but I am trying to create (and if I win I will be using the funds towards) a new card game to engage and teach young people about science (specifically psychology experiments). It’s all a bit up in the air at the moment but I am excited about it and would call it my mini invention!

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      Dennis Relojo-Howell answered on 9 Mar 2021: last edited 9 Mar 2021 7:07 pm

      Hi CarysS. To date, there is no blogging intervention (psychological therapy) designed to improve resilience in adolescents. Hopefully, by the time I finish my PhD, I will be able to demonstrate that it is possible and it can work – and I really hope! If not, I hope future resilience researchers can learn from my mistakes.

      So for my PhD project, I will travel to the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia to invite adolescents to co-design (adolescents and myself will all work together to design) a blog intervention while also exploring how they conceptualise resilience (in relation to their identities, lived experience, and aspirations).

      I think it’s cool to ‘invent’ a psychological intervention designed by adolescents for adolescents (from developing countries). Ultimately, my research will be a collection of stories of resilience and recovery of adolescents from those countries.

      I’m so excited about this future ‘invention’ that I already have a name for it: PReP (Psychreg Resilience Project). – Psychreg because that’s my blog.

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      Lisa Orchard answered on 9 Mar 2021: last edited 9 Mar 2021 9:54 pm

      Hi Carys. Not psychology related at all, but I used to say to my husband that supermarket’s should sell food kits with all the individual pieces you would need to make a set number of meals. A few years on and now we have several subscription companies making lots of money off a very similar idea!

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      Harry Piper answered on 10 Mar 2021:

      In terms of research I hope to create a tool to assess an individual’s ability to assess threat which would be really cool and beneficial. A more fun invention might be a jacuzzi bus though!

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      Alex Baxendale answered on 10 Mar 2021:

      Hello! My idea might not be exciting as a new way to scan peoples brains or anything like that, but I am currently looking to invent something right now! I’m looking in to ways we can offset the amount of mental resources we waste when we have math anxiety; if things go well i’m hoping to invent a new intervention (which is a kind of long term treatment) for people with math anxiety!

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      David McGonigle answered on 12 Mar 2021:

      Goodness me – yes! Usually when I’m using a piece of equipment that has fallen apart, I think – hang on, surely I can make something that does this better…I’m really (really!) out of practice, but I used to have to do a lot of soldering and electronics work when I started off. This was because, if you wanted to do cool (!) things in MRI – to actually allow people to press buttons and hear instructions while lying in a super-strong magnetic field – you had to tinker and mess about with things. So we’d take headphones apart, convert normal keyboards into ones that worked via air pressure…all sorts of cool things. I confess that, most of the time, I liked the electronics and ‘making’ part of this almost as much as my ‘real’ PhD work. Do you have any ideas for inventions, Carys?

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