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The Daisy Chain

Linking psychology and fun for better PsySocs

Psychology society resources for committees, quiz gremlins, and the poor soul who got stuck planning the event

Printable quiz packs, movie night kits, and ready-made resources for psychology societies that want something better than another vague social and a last-minute Canva poster. The Daisy Chain is built for PsychSocs, student committees, and psych students who want events people actually turn up to.

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Running a psychology society always sounds manageable until someone has to pick the theme, make the materials, write the quiz, sort the handouts, promote the thing, and pretend this was all organised weeks ago.

That is where The Daisy Chain comes in.

We make ready-made printable resources for psychology societies, along with psychology-themed quizzes, games, and blog content to help with event ideas, planning, and the general committee tradition of holding things together with goodwill and low battery percentages

Movie Night Discussion Ideas

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The Little Mermaid: Voice, Body, and the Cost of Wanting Another Life

A psychology movie night guide to The Little Mermaid, exploring adolescent identity, body politics, voice, agency, gender roles, parental control, transformation, and how the animated and live-action versions frame the cost of wanting another life.

Dancer in the Dark Movie Night: Watching With Audio Description On

A psychology society movie night idea using Dancer in the Dark with audio description turned on, exploring access, perception, disability, poverty, vulnerability, musical fantasy and how cinema changes when it has to describe itself.

Bend It Like Beckham: Gender, Culture, and the Trouble With Wanting Your Own Life

A psychology movie night guide to Bend It Like Beckham, exploring gender norms, family expectations, cultural identity, women’s football, role conflict, sexuality, belonging and the difficulty of wanting your own life without losing your people.

Borat: The Psychology of Going Along With It

A psychology movie night guide to Borat, exploring social norms, prejudice, politeness, embarrassment, satire, audience complicity, social permission and the uncomfortable psychology of going along with it.

Tropic Thunder: When Performance Becomes Permission

A psychology movie night guide to Tropic Thunder, exploring satire, role absorption, moral licensing, celebrity narcissism, racial performance, disability performance, masculinity, and what happens when performance becomes permission.

Forrest Gump: Innocence, Difference, and the Comfort of Not Understanding

A psychology movie night guide to Forrest Gump, exploring cognitive difference, stigma, nostalgia, trauma, innocence, cultural memory and how the film frames American history through a character who does not fully interpret it.

Jacob’s Ladder: When Reality Stops Agreeing With You

A psychology movie night guide to Jacob’s Ladder, exploring trauma, grief, reality testing, institutional betrayal, bodily fear, and what happens when the world stops confirming what is real.

Best Films for a Psychology Movie Night

Best films for a psychology movie night, from social psychology and media themes to trauma, identity, group behaviour, and films beyond the usual clinical thrillers.

How to Choose Films for a Psychology Movie Night

How to choose films for a psychology movie night, from clinical thrillers and identity films to comedies, social psychology favourites, and media picks that work better for student events.

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Fun & Games

Lab Manager: A Research Tycoon Game

Play Lab Manager, a free research methods tycoon game where you code data, hire research assistants, manage burnout, survive ethics events, and publish papers.

Stroop Shooter: A Colour-Word Interference Game

Play Stroop Shooter, a free colour-word interference game based on the Stroop effect. Choose a colour, shoot the matching word, and test your executive function.

Rogers or Wrongers: A Core Conditions Game

Play Rogers or Wrongers, a free psychology game about Carl Rogers’ three core conditions: congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathy. Spot what is missing in each scenario.

Revision: After Hours

Play Revision: After Hours, a browser-based psychology horror text adventure where you answer psychology revision questions, collect fragments, and escape the abandoned university wing before the Janitor finds you.

Whack-a-Mind

Play Whack-a-Mind, a free psychology game where you match scenarios to cognitive distortions such as catastrophising, mind reading, all-or-nothing thinking, and emotional reasoning.

Cognitive Siege: A CBT-Inspired Tower Defence Game

Play Cognitive Siege, a free psychology tower defence game where you match CBT-inspired techniques to intrusive thought patterns, cognitive distortions, rumination, avoidance, and panic-style scenarios.

Archive Extraction: a Hangman Horror

Play Archive Extraction, a dark hangman horror game where you recover missing psychology terms from disturbing case files using clues, hints, and deduction.

Psych Match: Match 3 Madness

Play Psych Match, a psychology-themed match-3 game with levels based on confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, and social proof.

CTRL ALT Desire

Play CTRL ALT Desire, a dark-triad-inspired personality game exploring Machiavellian, narcissistic, and psychopathic response styles through morally ambiguous scenarios.

Cognitive Minefield

Play Cognitive Minefield, a psychology puzzle game where hidden biases trigger concept questions. Built for psych students, PsySocs, and revision breaks.

Cognitive Connections A Psychology Memory Game

Play Cognitive Connections, a psychology memory game where matching pairs unlock concept questions. Built for psych students, PsySocs, and revision breaks.

Latent Verse: Haiku Challenge

Play the Psychology Haiku Challenge and guess 10 psychology concepts from short poems. A fun psychology game for psych students and PsySocs.